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(Georgetown University Medical Center) Georgetown University hosts "Censoring Research on Contagious H5N1 Influenza in 2012?

-- A Panel Discussion on Global Public Health, Legal, and Policy Controversies" on Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the New Research Building Auditorium on the campus of Georgetown University Medical Center.

The panel is free and open to the public.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable."

(Georgetown University Medical Center) The US government's request that the journals Science and Nature withhold scientific information related to the genetically modified H5N1 virus because of biosecurity concerns does not violate the First Amendment, say two Georgetown University professors.

They caution, however, that a fair, transparent process undertaken by research organizations is preferable to governmental constraints on disseminating scientific information.

Report: We control many breast cancer risk factors Associated Press

(Georgetown University Medical Center) A new study suggests some women needing a lumpectomy or mastectomy to treat their breast cancer have another potential option that is safe and effective -- nipple sparing mastectomy.

A long standing concern with this type of surgery is that cancer cells might be left under the nipple, posing a threat over time.

To examine the effectiveness of NSM, surgeons conducted a review of patient records for all women receiving the surgery at Georgetown University Hospital between 1989 and 2010.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Parents offered genetic testing to predict their risks of common, adult-onset health conditions say they would also test their children.

The study authors note these and other findings should put pediatricians on alert that parents may chose predictive genetic tests for themselves and for their children.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Facial pain. Nasal congestion. Postnasal drip. Fatigue. These are hallmark signs of chronic sinusitis, a swelling of tissue in the nasal and sinus cavity.

The illness strikes millions of Americans each year and is one of the top five reasons patients visit their primary care doctor.

Unfortunately little information on the subject is available to internists says a new study by a GUMC internist.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Preliminary findings from a unique study with sunitinib suggest that it might be possible to tweak the dosage of chemotherapy drugs used to treat HIV-positive cancer patients to achieve therapeutic benefit.

Given the type of drug cocktail patients use to treat their HIV, much more or considerably less chemotherapy may be warranted, say the researchers, part of the NCI-supported AIDS Malignancy Consortium.

The trial design is being presented at the 2010 annual meeting of ASCO.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Susan G. Komen for the Cure® has appointed V. Craig Jordan, OBE, Ph.D., D.Sc., F.Med.Sci., to its Scientific Advisory Council.

Jordan, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is the scientific director and vice chairman of the department of oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) The probiotic yogurt-like drink DanActive reduced the rate of common sicknesses such as ear infections, sinusitis, the flu and diarrhea in daycare children, say researchers who studied the drink in the largest known probiotic clinical trial to be conducted in the United States.

An additional finding, however, showed no reduction in the number school days missed. The study was funded by the Dannon Co.

Inc., and published today online in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.