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In recent months, the policies and enforcement procedures at the border separating the United States and Mexico have sparked intense conversation. Part of that conversation centers on the long-term mental health implications that forced family separation has on children.

Lexis Deshazor-Burnett, a rising junior at North Carolina A&T State University, credits the George Washington University (GW) Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer (GW-SPARC) with opening her eyes to the myriad research paths she could follow.

In an effort to improve health equity and health care access and to bring research and technology to Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C., the George Washington University Hospital signed a letter of intent to oversee the opening of a new hospital and health complex in Southeast D.C.

Transgender individuals may be at higher risk for myocardial infarction and death due to cardiovascular disease, according to several studies. This increased risk may be due to the hormone therapy that transgender patients take for masculinization or feminization.

The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in partnership with the GW Cancer Center, has launched a new summer program to advance cancer research through enhancing diversity in the field. The program is open to undergraduate students and is called the GW Summer…

It’s a part of practicing medicine that has nothing to do with science and everything to do with emotion: delivering bad news. Word choice, said Timothy E. Quill, MD, a physician in the Division of Palliative Care at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is powerful, and with it clinicians…

The order of operations was straightforward: first, Christina Pugliese, now a second-year MD student at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), applied for a health services scholarship as part of the SMHS global health track; next, after being…

Forty-six years ago, President Richard Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments Act to address gender bias in educational institutions. The act says, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected…

The coffee has brewed, schedules have been checked, and hellos have been exchanged. Now you shift your attention to tackling the day’s tasks, but then it happens — a migraine headache strikes. It’s a soul-crushing start to the day.

It was two words from his physician-mentor, Stanley Talpers, MD, that struck Matthew Hahn, MD ’97: “Be there.”