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The GUMC Center on Global Health and ____ has selected Dr. Charles B. Holmes as co-director.

Dr. Charles Holmes Selected to Co-Lead Global Health Center

By Emma Kotfica October 19, 2017

Dr. Charles B. Holmes will serve as co-director of Georgetown’s Center for Global Health and Quality, an internationally focused center for health care research, the Georgetown University Medical...

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GUMC researchers have developed a new method for autism spectrum disorder screening,

GUMC Proposes New Autism Screening Method

By Madeline Charbonneau May 19, 2017

A new method for autism spectrum disorder screening in children of Latinx families, developed by Georgetown University Medical Center autism specialists, was presented at the International Meeting...

Med Center Studies Sesame Street, Autism

By Tala al Rajjal April 7, 2017

Researchers at the Georgetown University Medical Center’s Center for Child and Human Development presented the preliminary results of a study to assess the impact and effectiveness of a Sesame Workshop...

Medical Center Evaluates Sesame Street and Autism

By Tala al Rajjal April 4, 2017

The results of a collaborative study between the Children’s National Health System and a researcher at the Georgetown University Medical Center, focused on evaluating the effectiveness of an initiative...

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GUMC researchers have developed a new method for autism spectrum disorder screening,

Med Center Trials to Focus on Neurologic Diseases

By Lily Steinberg March 21, 2017

Georgetown University Medical Center has begun two trials to test a cancer drug’s ability to modify the progression of Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, potentially creating the first...

Georgetown University Medical Center to Conduct Study on Fertility App

By Emma Kotfica February 24, 2017

The Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health partnered with Cycle Technologies to conduct a yearlong study in real time, the first of its kind, on a fertility tracking...

Federal Funding for Georgetown Research Declines

By Matthew Larson February 7, 2017

Georgetown University and Georgetown University Medical Center saw a slight decline in federal funding for the fiscal year 2016 from fiscal year 2015. The Medical Center received $76.68 million in federal...

Georgetown University Researchers Return from Antarctica

By Patricja Okuniewska February 3, 2017

The first research team Georgetown sent to Antarctica returned Dec. 23 from a trip, marking them the first ever research team to bring next generation DNA sequencing technology to the continent. The...

GUMC and GULC Form Health Justice Alliance

By Marina Pitofsky December 2, 2016

The Georgetown University Medical Center and the Georgetown University Law Center launched the Health Justice Alliance, an educational and training partnership, to increase access to medical care and...

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Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) passed a package of legislation targeting tobacco use in the District this week.

GUMC Report Finds Cigarette Packaging Linked to Mortality

By Marina Pitofsky November 18, 2016

The use of graphic anti-smoking labels could drastically reduce the smoking mortality rate over the coming decades, according to a Georgetown University Medical Center study published Nov. 3 in the...

GUMC Studies Cancer Treatment

By Matthew Larson November 15, 2016

Inflammation can slow the early development of cancers in a protein-producing gene, said Georgetown University Medical Center researchers and alumni who took part in a five-year study published Nov....

MedStar Safety Ranks Low

By Jeff Cirillo November 8, 2016

Although MedStar Georgetown University Hospital received a rating of C in hospital safety, it is still safer than all but one of the six other Washington, D.C. hospitals, according to a report released...

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