Making Sense of Senses: Researchers Find the Brain Processes Sight and Sound in the Same Two-Step Manner
Although sight is a much different sense than sound, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists have found that the human brain learns to make sense of these stimuli in the same way.
12-Apr-2018 11:00 AM EDT
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A Simple Tool for Doubling Down on Disease Control
It’s a simple idea: Pair the control of a neglected tropical disease with a more prominent disease that afflict the same populations to reduce morbidity and mortality. The approach could be a win-win, but for public health officials, having...
9-Apr-2018 6:00 AM EDT
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New Programs Offer Training in Catholic Clinical Ethics
Georgetown’s School of Medicine is launching Master of Arts and certificate programs in Catholic Clinical Ethics, in conjunction with the Catholic University of America, as well as with the support of the Catholic Health Association of the United...
5-Apr-2018 11:05 AM EDT
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Georgetown University Medical Center Selected as Lewy Body Dementia Research Center of Excellence
The Lewy Body Dementia Association has designated Georgetown University Medical Center as a “Research Center of Excellence.”
4-Apr-2018 7:05 AM EDT
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Georgetown Among First Universities to Collaborate with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations U.S.
Georgetown University and CEPI U.S. – the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations U.S. – today announce a new agreement to explore joint cooperative academic and research initiatives.
21-Mar-2018 9:05 AM EDT
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Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and Georgetown University Launch Research, Education Collaboration
A new collaboration established between Georgetown University and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research aims to expand both institutions’ research and training missions in the biomedical sciences.
27-Feb-2018 1:05 PM EST
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Family History Increases Breast Cancer Risk Even in Older Women: Weighing Screening Options
Family history of breast cancer continues to significantly increase chances of developing invasive breast tumors in aging women — those ages 65 and older, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The findings could impact...
8-Feb-2018 12:45 PM EST
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New Immunotherapy Combination Tolerable, Effective in Patients with Advanced Kidney Cancer
Combining an anti-angiogenesis agent, which blocks blood vessel formation, with an immunotherapy agent, was found to have promising anti-tumor activity and no unexpected side effects in an early-phase clinical trial in patients with advanced kidney...
8-Feb-2018 7:05 AM EST
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Georgetown Physician Available for Interviews Regarding Trump’s Physical Exam
10-Jan-2018 6:05 AM EST
Georgetown Professor Reacts to WHO Reports About Impact of Environment on Child Health
6-Mar-2017 8:55 AM EST
Using Statistics Ethically to Combat "A Scientific Credibility Crisis"
A recent survey suggests that many researchers have tried and failed to reproduce other scientists' experiments as well as their own. Georgetown University’s Rochelle Tractenberg, PhD, is on a mission to help change that by...
13-Feb-2017 10:05 AM EST
The Nat’l Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep reacts to revised @AmerAcadPeds safe sleep recommendation @GUMedCenter
24-Oct-2016 12:05 AM EDT
Nobel Prize-Winning Science Is Key to Georgetown Neurotherapeutic Research
Today, the 2016 Nobel Prize in the category of medicine or physiology was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy,” a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components. In describing...
3-Oct-2016 9:05 AM EDT
@GUMedCenter Medical Experts Available During #OlympicGames
5-Aug-2016 9:05 PM EDT
#Zika Has Arrived, But is the U.S. Ready?
29-Jul-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Georgetown Professor: FDA Deeming Rule has “Good and Bad Aspects”
5-May-2016 10:05 AM EDT
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