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February 28, 2024
By Priyanka Kanth, MD, Director, GI Cancer Prevention Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
In the late 1990s Colorectal cancer (CRC) was the fourth leading cause of cancer death in people under age 50, but cases are on the rise. Now, it’s the leading cause of cancer death in men, and secon...
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October 18, 2016
By the time John Hume, now 48, reached MedStar Georgetown University Hospital by ambulance, “I was a cascading catastrophe,” he recalls. Diagnosed and treated by his family doctor for a mild case ...
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June 20, 2016
By MedStar Health Research Institute
Baby Boomers at Risk for this Silent Disease Most people who have hepatitis C, a viral infection of the liver, have no symptoms until the disease has caused significant liver damage. That’s why it’s i...
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May 25, 2016
By Heidi Rosvold-Brenholtz Sixty-nine-year-old Jeff Ferrill of Alexandria, Va., can swallow and eat comfortably again, after nearly three years of appointments to treat a rare and complicated gastroi...
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October 29, 2015
Instrumental music teacher Marilyn Beeson had just finished teaching her lively class of fourth and fifth graders who were preparing for their spring concert. She was taking a drink when she felt a t...
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October 07, 2015
Washingtonian Names More Than 95 MedStar Georgetown Doctors as “Top Doctors” Washingtonian recently announced its “Tops Doctors” for 2015, and 96 physicians fr...
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September 04, 2014Washingtonian recently announced its “Tops Doctors” for 2014, and 96 physicians from MedStar Georgetown were honored!