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When Tim Russert, the longtime moderator of Meet the Press, died in the offices of WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., he did not succumb to a “massive heart attack,” as some reports suggested.
On the fifth floor of Children’s National Medical Center, in the southeast corner of a large lab, is a cubby with a desk, a computer, two bike helmets, and three phones.
The southeast African country of Mozambique has endured a tumultuous past. Battered by civil war until 1992, the nation now faces an enemy just as fierce: HIV/AIDS.
Whether it’s the Gulf oil spill, the obesity epidemic, lead in children’s toys, or the outbreak of the H1N1 virus, major public health issues regularly capture newspaper headlines and the public’s attention.
Accident-prone travelers take note: “If you get hit by a moped in a country like the Netherlands, you will most likely be taken care of by a first-year doctor — one who has not had any specialized training in emergency medicine,” says Terrence Mulligan, D.O., M.P.H. ’03.
A school of public health seems an unlikely home for a chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), an organization promoting sustainable engineering projects in developing countries. But for Sarah Diamond, a second-year M.P.H. candidate in the Milken Institute for Public Health (formerly the GW…
In the coming years, the U.S. is expected to face a national shortage of nurses twice as large as any experienced since the mid-1960s.
The GW SMHS was part of an event that took place on the GW Campus to mark World AIDS Day 2011. ONE and (RED) hosted this event to recognize reaching “the beginning of the end of AIDS.”
Michael Irwig, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is quoted in an article about the side effects of the hair loss drugs, such as Propecia, and research that was done which ties the drugs to sexual problems.
Congressman Pete Olson Introduced the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 2011, H.R. 3511, that will establish a uniform base of liability protection for businesses that acquire AEDs and the good Samaritans who use them. The Cheney Cardiovascular Institute supports and applauds Congressman Olson's…