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David Steinhorn, MD, FAAP, professor of pediatrics, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, recently received the 2019 Pioneer in Integrative Medicine Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) at the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans, La. 

GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce GW Biomedical Cross-disciplinary Seminar Series: Connecting Academic Research & Inquiry Across Disciplines—a series of seminars that will explore a new cross-disciplinary topic each year. For the inaugural year, the focus is "…

From gluten-free to all-Paleo, GMOs to grass-fed beef, our newsfeeds abound with nutrition advice. Whether sensational headlines from the latest study or anecdotes from celebrities and food bloggers, we're bombarded with "superfoods" and "best ever" diets promising to help us lose weight, fight…

Kimberly Cabe, FNP-BC, a graduate student in the Integrative Medicine Programs at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was awarded the BUCK Cancer Foundation's 2019 Pay A BUCK Forward educational grant for $4,000 on Saturday, May 18. (She has since graduated…

The U.S. Health Department reports that about half of all American adults—117 million individuals—have one or more preventable chronic diseases, many of which are related to poor quality eating patterns and physical inactivity. While many infectious diseases have been conquered, the rates of…

Nature’s dirty needle.

That’s how Lyme disease researchers and physicians like Andrew Heyman, MD, MHSA, refer to the ticks that have spread the bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, throughout the northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and north-central United States.

Emeran Mayer, MD, PhD, a pioneering medical researcher into brain-gut interactions, and Helen Lavretsky, MD, an expert in brain aging and treatment, will speak at the 2nd Annual Patrick and Marguerite Sung Symposium at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 26, 2019, in Room 117 of the George Washington…

Tatiana Znayenko-Miller, a graduate student in MSHS in Integrative Medicine Program the at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science, is the recipient of the 2018 Pay A BUCK Forward Grant for her work with the Ryan White Program, volunteering at The Center for Mind-Body…

Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US) Conference attendees advocated for non-pharmacological therapies for chronic pain on Capitol Hill, shared practical ways of making people healthier, and discussed sustainable care models that make integrative health care more accessible during the…

His patient, “Sally,” began Wayne Jonas, MD, was an executive vice president, wealthy with platinum-level health insurance. She’d had a car accident, though, and developed persistent lower back pain, which she treated with NSAIDS and physical therapy. Three months later, however, as she reached…