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New Online Master’s in Health Care Leadership

A new master’s degree at Georgetown teaches health care professionals how to enhance patient safety and improve quality in an increasingly complex heath care system. Read More

Better Autism Screening for Latino Children

Georgetown autism specialists working with Latino families in Washington, D.C., have developed an effective screening program that identifies Latino infants who may be at risk for autism spectrum disorder. Read More

Tumor Mutations: The Upside?

A team of investigators led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that the tumor mutation load (TML) in a patient’s cancer biopsy varied by age and the type of cancer. Read More

Deficiencies in DNA Repairing Identified in Tumors

A new investigation of more than 53,000 stored tumor samples finds evidence of a key deficiency in a repair process designed to keep DNA from being mutated and causing cancer. Read More

Justice and Gender at Georgetown

Scholarship, policy, law, medicine, and society at large are increasingly addressing equality issues related to sex and gender—sex being biologically determined differences between male and… Read More

Volunteers Needed for Mentoring in Medicine

Hoya Gateway is an online platform established in 2013 to help students connect with alumni for conversations about different professions. Read More

Women In Medicine

In this issue, we chose to look at just a few of the many unique ways in which women are influencing medical research, practice, and education. Read More

Rural Health Meets Religious Pluralism

Three years ago, Ayaz Virji, MD (C’96, M’00), moved with his family to Dawson, a small town in western Minnesota, to pursue his interest in practicing rural health. Read More

Glowing Reviews for Radiation Author

From mammograms to airport scanners to nuclear power plant malfunctions, what are the real radiation risks? Read More

Dogfish Shark Steroid Attacks Parkinson’s Toxin

A synthesized steroid mirroring one naturally made by the dogfish shark prevents the buildup of a lethal protein implicated in some neurodegenerative diseases. Read More