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A Third of Women Experience Migraines Associated with Menstruation, Most Commonly When Premenopausal
A third of the nearly 20 million women who participated in a national health survey reported migraines during menstruation, and of them, 11.8 million, or 52.5%, were premenopausal. The analysis was conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center and Pfizer, Inc., which makes a migraine medication.
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Antibiotics Aren’t Effective for Most Lower Tract Respiratory Infections
Use of antibiotics provided no measurable impact on the severity or duration of coughs, even if a bacterial infection was present, finds a large prospective study of people who sought treatment in U.S. primary or urgent care settings for lower-respiratory tract infections.
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American College of Physicians Selects Princy N. Kumar, MD, For National Medical Education Award
The American College of Physicians (ACP), will present the Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award to Princy N. Kumar, MD, MACP, at its Internal Medicine Meeting in April.
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Patients Benefit From Attending to Spirituality in Health Care, Says Georgetown University Bioethics Expert
In a Perspective piece titled “Physicians, Spirituality, and Compassionate Patient Care” in the March 21, 2024 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics and director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, argues for the clinical and ethical importance of attending to spiritual well-being in the healing process.
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Researchers Pinpoint Brain Area Where People Who Are Blind Recognize Faces Identified by Sound
Using a specialized device that translates images into sound, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists and colleagues showed that people who are blind recognized basic faces using the part of the brain known as the fusiform face area, a region that is crucial for the processing of faces in sighted people.
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Georgetown Global Health Center Launches First Open-Access Wildlife Disease Database
Georgetown University Medical Center’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) today announces the launch of a first-of-its-kind wildlife disease database — a system for collecting records of viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, etc. — designed to support an early warning system for potential viral emergence.
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From One Nightmare to Another. Anthony Fauci’s New Concern
Writing in Science Translational Medicine, Anthony Fauci, MD, Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the McCourt School of Public Policy, reviews the key lessons learned from COVID-19 to help prepare and respond to the next pandemic, “whenever that occurs.”
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Georgetown University School of Medicine 2023 Commencement Speaker: Joan Y. Reede, MD, MS, MPH, MBA
Georgetown University School of Medicine is honored to welcome Joan Y. Reede, MD, MS, MPH, MBA, as its commencement speaker for the graduating Class of 2023.
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