Archive: global health
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Smartphone Apps Not So Smart at Helping Users Avoid or Achieve Pregnancy
WASHINGTON — You might not want to depend on your smartphone app alone to help you avoid or achieve pregnancy, say the authors of a new study. A review of nearly 100 fertility awareness apps finds that most don’t employ evidence-based methodology.
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Gulf War Illness: Looking Back to Move Forward
Georgetown University Medical Center and the Brookings Institution co-hosted “Desert Storm after 25 years: Confronting the Exposures of Modern Warfare” on June 17 to examine the history of GWI and discuss a way forward.
Category: GUMC Stories
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“Disease Outbreak Guarantees” – A Proposed Mechanism for Enhancing Public Health Capacity
WASHINGTON — What if private companies could obtain some coverage to protect their foreign investments in developing countries against crippling infectious disease outbreaks such as Ebola? The possible path to offering disease outbreak guarantees is an idea being posed by two global health researchers who suggest that a mechanism for establishing such an instrument could be tied to public health investments.
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Seeking guidance for clinicians facing a question of human rights
Should a physician, after helping deliver a child to a women whose genitals had been cut and vulva stitched together — an outlawed procedure generally called female genital mutilation or FGM — close her up again? A Georgetown physician, ethicist and lawyer explore this complex moral problem.
Category: GUMC Stories
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Rebecca Katz: Creating public health infrastructure to handle pandemics — before they occur
Meet Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH. She and her global health team are watching with more than keen interest the way the U.S. is positioning itself to handle a potential Zika outbreak this summer.
Category: GUMC Stories
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A Yellow Fever Epidemic: A New Global Health Emergency?
WASHINGTON — Evidence is mounting that the current outbreak of yellow fever is becoming the latest global health emergency, say two Georgetown University professors who call on the World Health Organization to convene an emergency committee under the International Health Regulations. In addition, with frequent emerging epidemics, they call for the creation of a “standing emergency committee” to be prepared for future health emergencies.
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West Africa, Ebola and the Threat of Zika
WASHINGTON — Rapid testing for the Zika virus is a critical need in the recent Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, says a Georgetown University professor, because of the recent Zika outbreak on nearby Cape Verde and the similarity in symptoms between Zika and early Ebola.
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Georgetown Infectious Disease Expert Comments on Possible Case of Sexually Transmitted Zika Virus
WASHINGTON – Today, a Texas health department reported a case of Zika virus that may have been acquired through sexual contact with someone who had recently returned from an epidemic area. Georgetown infectious disease specialist Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, commented that if sexual transmission is confirmed, additional guidance for pregnant women is likely warranted.
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