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Judith Owens, M.D., professor of pediatrics, commented in Reuters about a new study finding that teens who stay up late have higher blood pressure, leading to heart problems.
Alexis Janda never pictured herself as a runner. “The word wasn’t part of my vocabulary,” she said. However, the word cancer sadly was. When Janda was 10 years old, her father, Michael, passed away from stomach lining cancer.
In 2013, the GW Cancer Institute (GWCI) was the recipient of two awards that will allow the organization to continue to bring multidisciplinary clinical, research, education, and outreach programs together in a comprehensive approach to cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship…
For clinicians looking for insight into the new standards of care for cancer survivorship, such as providing follow-up care, managing long-term and late medical and psychosocial effects of cancer and its treatment, or the importance of survivorship care planning, the George Washington University…
Raja Mazumder, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, appeared on The EmeraldPlanet to discuss a project he jointly leads known as the High-performance Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE).
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, was quoted in an article in The New York Times on a shortage of primary care doctors in the United States.
Leana Wen, M.D., instructor of emergency medicine, wrote an op-ed for NPR's Shots recommending that patients ask physicians about whether they receive any financial support from drug companies, before accepting a prescription.
Gurusher Panjrath, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and director of the Heart Failure and Mechanical Support Program, was recently published in the journal Science Translational Medicine for his study, "Metabolic Rates of ATP Transfer Through Creatine Kinase (CK Flux) Predict Clinical Heart…
Kabir Yadav, MDCM, MS, MSHS, associate professor of medicine, was named as one of the first board-certified clinical informaticians in the country.
Gurusher Panjrath, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and director of the Heart Failure and Mechanical Support Program, was featured in a News-Medical article about his recently published research in the journal Science Translational Medicine on predicting whether a patient's heart will…