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November 22, 2024Hip replacement surgery is an important and necessary procedure to restore mobility—544,000 patients each year have one in the U.S. But hip replacement isn’t right for everyone with hip pain....
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July 03, 2016By MedStar Health Research Institute
Expanded access is the process by which investigational treatment options are made available to patients with serious and/or life-threatening diseases or conditions who lack therapeutic alternatives. ...
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July 03, 2016By MedStar Health Research Institute
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a new policy, effective in 2017, to align with the proposed Common Rule changes in regards to the use of a single institutional review board (IRB) ...
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July 03, 2016By MedStar Health Research Institute
The goal of the MedStar Diabetes Research Grant is to support investigators in the field of diabetes research who are interested in developing pilot data that can lead to additional, externally funded...
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June 22, 2016Center’s New Space Optimizes Care for Older Adults and their Caregivers Taking care of an aging parent or other loved one gets more challenging over the years, as 66-year-old Denise Noll is finding ou...
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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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May 20, 2016Renewal of Hospital Chapel to Provide Comfort for Patients and VisitorsBy Ronni CranwellOver the past 69 years, the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital chapel has been an important place of worship...
