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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…
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…
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…
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…
History has shown that without explicit and enforced guidelines even well-intentioned researchers can fail to adequately examine the ethical pros and cons of study design choices. Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS, director for the Integrative Medicine Program at the George Washington University School of…
Since World War II, medical ethics in research studies involving human subjects have shifted significantly. Despite this important growth, ethical issues remain. Nutrition supplementation research does not have guidelines around the use of placebo groups in clinical trials, posing ethical issues…
The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) received a $50,000 gift from Daniel S. Birnbaum, DO, RESD `16, and family, to create the Theodore and Cynthia Birnbaum Memorial Fund for Integrative Medicine.