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July 14, 2025By MedStar Health Research Institute
This article was written by Christopher Attinger, MD, Karen Kim Evans, MD, and Christopher Ply, BS, Georgetown University School of Medicine Medical Student Class of 2027. A pilot study presented a...
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October 24, 2017More than 16 million — or nearly 7 percent — of American adults experience at least one major depressive episode in a given year. And numerous studies have shown that the rates of depression among hos...
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October 18, 2017by Kelly Smith, PhD As a health services research, I often thought of the patients I worked with as a means to an end – as subjects in my research helping me to achieve greatness. As I wor...
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October 16, 2017
Women who have a mastectomy often are concerned with how their breast will look and feel after reconstructive surgery. About 80 percent of women choose to get a breast implant after having breas...
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October 05, 2017Left Image: The target from an MRI is merged with an ultrasound image for targeting. Right Image: The biopsy locations are captured by the MRI-Ultrasound fusion technology. Ideally, doctors would catc...
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October 04, 2017By Anne Gunderson, Ed.D, MS, GNP In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report that estimated 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying each year in hospitals as a result of medical errors. Even...
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September 29, 2017By MedStar Health Research Institute
Research Grand Rounds are sponsored by MedStar Health Research Institute and Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) and bring together the MedStar Heal...
