Medicine

Imad Tabbara, M.D., GW professor of Medicine, interviewed about whether bone marrow donors should be paid.

Vivek Jain, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine and Medical Director of Center for Sleep Disorders at the Medical Faculty Associates, was interviewed about how people cope with losing an hour of sleep due to daylight savings.

Dr. Gary Simon, Walter G. Ross Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and vice-chair of the Department of Medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical Faculty Associates, was interviewed by the…

Dr. Michael S. Irwig, assistant professor of Medicine, Dr. Anton Trinidad, associate professor of Psychiatry, and Matthew St. Peter, a fourth year medical student at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, co-authored an article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine titled, “Self-Castration by a…

Jordan Cohen, M.D., professor of Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is quoted in an article about the money that the chairman of the orthopedics department University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Heath is receiving from Medtronic, a medical device…

Katherine Chretien, M.D., associate professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, wrote a column in USA Today about breastfeeding in America and how it should be more widely accepted by states and the American public, because it provides health benefits to both mother and…

Jonathan Reiner, M.D., professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The George Washington University Hospital is interviewed by a Connecticut NPR affiliate about new legislation that provides Good Samaritan…

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.

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…