News Archive

A team led by Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS, director for the Integrative Medicine Program at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, published a review on the ethical implications of placebo group use in Nutrients, where she looked at various studies in the developing field of vitamin D research…

Mary Donofrio, MD, professor of pediatrics, spoke to The Washington Post for an article about ALCAPA, a rare heart defect most commonly found in newborns.

Gerard Gioia, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of pediatrics, was quoted in an article by the Daily Herald (Chicago) about whether CTE research justifies a ban of youth tackle football.

A team of researchers at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences compared the toxicological impact of cryosurgery with an FDA-approved topical 40 percent hydrogen peroxide solution (A-101) for the treatment of seborrheic keratosis, in human skin equivalents derived from darker skin types.…

Fourth-year medical students pursued projects of choice for their final Clinical Public Health Summit and presented their results to their third-year classmates.

Jaclyn Kline, MD, research instructor of pediatrics, spoke to Reader's Digest for an article about signs that upper abdominal pain could actually be an emergency.

Fourth-year medical student and kidney donor Jacob Lambdin honors mentor J. Keith Melancon, MD, by requesting the renowned transplant surgeon hood him at graduation.

Fred M. Gordin, MD, professor of medicine and senior scientist of clinical and population sciences at the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research, passed away at age 66 after a four-year battle with lung cancer. 

Eighty thousand people streamed through the Walter E. Washington Convention Center March 10 and 11 to take part in the annual two-day NBC4-Telemundo44 Health Expo.

Daniel Yang, PhD, assistant research professor of pediatrics, published in Autism Research finding that a clinician-driven virtual learning platform, tailored to young adults on the autism spectrum, shows improved social competency.