Georgetown University Medical Center

Vaccines save millions of lives each year. But they can only be truly effective if every individual has both the opportunity and the willingness to be vaccinated. In response to…

The Allan J. Goody, M.D., Endowed Professorship in Medical Education At a September 2018 event in Riggs Library, the family, friends, and colleagues of Charles A. Read, M.D., celebrated his…

Researching placebo effects in insomnia treatment.

New research has uncovered a mechanism thought to explain why some cancers don't respond to a widely used form of immunotherapy called “checkpoint inhibitors” or anti-PD-1.

Shopping for a good probiotic? Reading the labels may not provide enough information to weigh the options, according to a research team led by Georgetown University Medical Center.

Fung-Lung Chung can't wait to find out if his mother's belief in the health-promoting properties of the hot green tea she served after meals will be scientifically validated by a…

Mounting evidence from patients and from research in animal models suggests that exposure to common epilepsy drugs, phenobarbital in particular, causes lasting damage to cognitive and motor functions in the…

Every day the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data—25 followed by 17 zeros. Of this data, 30 percent is generated in health care, from laboratories and electronic medical record…

Close scrutiny has been placed on Washington, D.C.'s maternal health services for marginalized populations, with the recent closures of two maternity wards in underserved communities.

The health of American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) is disproportionately affected by criminal justice disparities in the United States, notes School of Nursing & Health Studies professor Bette Jacobs…