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April 06, 2026Research: LVAD and Support Offer Patients with Advanced Heart Failure Another Chance for Transplant.Our research, published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure – Intersections, finds that most patients with modifiable barriers to heart transplant can resolve them with team-based support after LVAD.&n...
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May 31, 2017By MedStar Health Research Institute
A team of researchers from MedStar Health, the Washington VA Hospital and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has collaborated on evaluating the frequency and causation of hypogonadism i...
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May 31, 2017By MedStar Health Research Institute
The administration of an institutional review board (IRB), or any regulatory committee for that matter, can feel like death by a thousand paper cuts. Each step in the process is like a tiny paper cut:...
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May 31, 2017By MedStar Health Research Institute
Each year, MedStar Health awards scholarships to approximately 30 first-year Georgetown University medical students in order to pursue research during the summer. For eight weeks, each summ...
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May 25, 2017We are a nation obsessed with caffeine: Cans of caffeinated energy drinks with flashy names line beverage shelves. New coffee shops seem to open every day. Caffeine is added to gum, jelly beans, oatme...
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May 22, 2017What comes to mind when you think of clinical trials? If you’re like most people, you think of cancer or other longer-term diseases in which people have time to weigh the benefits and risks before sig...
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May 18, 2017About 48 million Americans, or approximately 20 percent of the population, have some degree of hearing loss. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hearing loss is now the third-...
