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The Ebola Crisis: Subject Experts for Media Interviews
Georgetown University Medical Center professors offer expertise for journalists seeking interviews in a variety of subjects related to the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa. Topics range from infectious diseases control and treatment, vaccine development, clinical trials, ethics of human subjects in clinical studies, global public health and legal limits of health laws.
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Safe Passages Into Adulthood: Preventing Gender-Based Violence and Its Consequences
WASHINGTON — Gender-based violence affects the physical and mental health of girls and boys, men and women worldwide. A recent study by researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University addresses the challenge of developing effective strategies to change inequitable and harmful social norms that result in gender-based violence.
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Boys with Autism Demonstrate Surprising Strength in Grammar Processing
WASHINGTON — Autism is often characterized by language and communication deficits. Yet a study by neuroscientists found that boys with high-functioning autism were significantly faster at a key task of grammar abilities — producing past tenses for regular verbs — than were boys without autism.
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Media Advisory: Georgetown Hosts Artificial Intelligence Symposium for the Public
WASHINGTON – Georgetown University Medical Center’s Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics hosts an evening public symposium on artificial intelligence with a special focus on neuroethics.
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Identifying a Better Message Strategy for Dissuading Smokers: Add the Positive
WASHINGTON — Which is more likely to convince a smoker to quit? The words, “Warning: cigarettes cause cancer” beneath the image of an open mouth with a cancerous lesion and rotten teeth, or the same image with the words, “Warning: Quitting smoking reduces the risk of cancer”?
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Brain Study Shows Dyslexia Impacts Mathematical Processing
WASHINGTON – In the first known study of its kind, researchers have identified brain activity that links dyslexia to difficulty with math. The findings from the Georgetown University Medical Center study are published in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Neuroimage, now online.
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Georgetown Offers New Treatment Study for Alzheimer’s Disease
WASHINGTON – The Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking volunteers to participate in a new treatment study for people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The study, called “NOBLE,” evaluates the potential benefits of adding an investigational drug, T-817MA, to donepezil (Aricept®).
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Georgetown Lombardi Receives Renewal as DC’s Only Federally Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
WASHINGTON — The National Cancer Institute (NCI) today awarded a five-year, $11.25 million P30 Cancer Center Support Grant to Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and renewed its designation as a “comprehensive cancer center.”
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Scientists Call for Investigation of Mysterious Cloud-like Collections In Cells
WASHINGTON — About 50 years ago, electron microscopy revealed the presence of tiny blob-like structures that form inside cells, move around and disappear. But scientists still don’t know what they do — even though these shifting cloud-like collections of proteins are believed to be crucial to the life of a cell, and therefore could offer a new approach to disease treatment.
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NEJM Perspective: “Studying ‘Secret Serums’ — Toward Safe, Effective Ebola Treatments”
WASHINGTON — Conducting clinical studies of agents to treat Ebola and allowing compassionate use of those agents are not necessarily mutually exclusive, writes Georgetown University Medical Center’s Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, in a perspective piece published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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