All Posts: population health
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Georgetown Study to Recruit Washington-area Children to Assess Probiotic to Prevent Diarrhea
A new multimillion dollar study at Georgetown University Medical Center will investigate whether a specific probiotic strain added to yogurt prevents diarrhea in children taking antibiotics for a common illness.
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Al-Refaie Leads Multidisciplinary Research Team
To answer the research questions that Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, was interested in asking, he required a team of researchers knowledgeable in biostatistics, health finance and economics, public policy and law. He was able to find those experts at Georgetown.
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Indoor Tanning Dependency Common in Young Women, Especially in Those With Depression
A survey of young, white women who have used indoor tanning at least once in the past year showed that more than one in five of them have signs of being addicted to the high dose of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from tanning beds. In addition, women with symptoms of depression were three times more likely to meet the criteria for having a tanning dependence.
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University Begins Series on Condition of African American D.C. Residents
The NHS report that showed stark differences in the health of African American residents of Washington, D.C., versus their white counterparts was the subject of a policy briefing and luncheon on Thursday.
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Georgetown Institute Launches Real-Time Study of Smartphone Fertility App Use
WASHINGTON — In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) are recruiting as many as 1,200 women to study, in real time, a smartphone app that calculates a woman’s chance for pregnancy on a daily basis.
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Graphic Cigarette Warnings Trigger Brain Areas Key to Quitting Smoking
WASHINGTON — Viewing graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packs triggers activity in brain areas involved in emotion, decision-making and memory as observed via brain scans. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and Truth Initiative reported their findings online this week in Addictive Behaviors Reports.
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GUN VIOLENCE AND MENTAL ILLNESS: Georgetown Expert To Speak at Charleston Summit
MEDIA ADVISORY: Georgetown University forensic psychiatrist Liza Gold, MD, an expert on gun violence and mental illness, is an invited speaker at “Moving from Crisis to Action: A Public Health Approach to Reducing Gun Violence” on Friday, Dec. 4 at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, in Charleston, S.C. The conference comes almost six months after a shooting at the church on June 17, 2015 killed nine people. Gold will represent the American Psychiatric Association.
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