News Archive

Each year, close to 3 million Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)-related emergencies arrive at hospitals and ambulatory care centers across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Could the brain provide biological clues following a traumatic injury that would improve the outcome for the patient?

A consortium led by GW has been refunded for their BioCompute Object Specification Project, thanks to a $2.2 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

In early 2018, a woman in her 30s, we’ll call her Sue although that’s not her real name, decided that she’d like to try one of those hip electric scooters she’d seen whizzing around town. Bad decision.

Robert W. Turner II has a doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York, but his most significant degree was earned at the School of Hard Knocks — more familiarly known as professional football.

Pooja Lakshmin, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, spoke to Glamour for an article on treating prenatal depression.

First-year MD student Amil Agarwal presented a poster on hidradenitis suppurativa at the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting in November.

Nathaniel DeNicola, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, spoke to NBC News about the association between very hot weather and premature births.

Jeffrey Bethony, PhD, professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, spoke to Nature for an article on why only vaccines can eradicate infection by parasitic worms.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences was honored with the Distinguished Academic Partner Award by the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation.