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The GW Cancer Institute has developed the first free, online, comprehensive training that covers the fundamentals of oncology patient navigation in the U.S.
The Avon Foundation for Women awarded a $100,000 grant to the GW Cancer Institute at AVON 39 The Walk to End Breast Cancer in Washington, D.C.
Researchers at Children's National Health System, a clinical partner of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, joining other teams, have uncovered new evidence that T-cells, a type of blood cells, can effectively restore antiviral immunity after transplantation for some of the most high-…
An interdisciplinary, city-wide consortium of researchers, led by Alan E. Greenberg, MD, MPH, professor and chair in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Milken Institute School of Public Health, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for an expected $7.5 million…
Larrissa May, M.D., director of the Clinical Research Fellowship and associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, was published in Clinical Infectious Disease for her research finding a rise in shortages of key antibiotics used to treat highly resistant infections.
New research published in Nature has found several drugs could lead to new treatment options for multiple sclerosis (MS), including two drugs that effectively treat MS at the source, in vivo. When administered at the peak of disease, these two drugs showed a striking reversal of disease severity.
The GW Cancer Institute has finalized 45 core competency statements for oncology patient navigators, who have become critical members of the health care team. These competency statements were published in the Journal of Oncology Navigation and Survivorship and were created through literature review…
An interdisciplinary group of researchers from the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Children’s National Health System has been awarded a program project grant for $6.2 million from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to solve pediatric…
Jesse Pines, M.D., M.B.A., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, was recently published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine for a study showing that medical homes can have a positive effect on patients, as far as limiting outpatient emergency department use, but they don’t seem…
An 18-week plant-based dietary intervention program boosts employee productivity, while alleviating symptoms of anxiety, depression, and fatigue, according to a study by Neal Barnard, M.D., adjunct associate professor of medicine, published in the March/April issue of the American Journal of Health…