The Healing Arts

In this issue we explore the intersection of medicine and the arts. Through the healing power of art in pediatric oncology, the flourishing new medical student arts group, and a visit with three School of Medicine artist-doc alumni, Georgetown’s ongoing work in this arena is made visible through action. But our medicine-art journey begins in the mind, and so we open with a peek into the vast research underway across the university on neuroscience and the arts.

Read Editor Jane Varner Malhotra’s full letter »

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Neuroscience and the Arts

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In Perfect Harmony

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Crafting Artful Care

Rupa and the April Fishes.

Practicing Medicine, Practicing Art

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New Information to Combat Fatigue Disorders

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Pass the Veggies

Eating soy foods and cruciferous vegetables may reduce treatment side effects in breast cancer survivors, say a team of scientists led by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Beating Ewing Sarcoma – Minus the Side Effects?

Because the disease often affects teens, side effects like infertility from current treatments are hard to bear. New research at Georgetown offers hope for an alternative.

Tracking “Silent” Deaths

Resilient Baby Brains

Kidney Cancer Responds to the 1-2 Punch

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Picturing the Future: The faces of medicine are getting a makeover

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From Compounds to Clinics, Classrooms to Community

From an idea scribbled in a lab notebook to a therapy administered in a clinic, the path toward developing a treatment takes years.

Break a Leg

Operating theater takes center stage at the university’s annual Heart of the Harvey dramatic arts festival.

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What’s in my white coat with Charles Read

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CURA Fosters Connections

Connecting and Uniting Residents and Alumni program was founded in 2005 with the goal of connecting Georgetown medical alumni with each other.

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Reflections on Medicine with Sylvia Morris

Sylvia Morris (M’98)…

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