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News 4 Your Sunday: Colorectal Cancer Awareness
News4’s Pat Lawson Muse spoke with Dr. Walid Chalhoub of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and colon cancer survivor Cheryl Alston.
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News 4 Your Sunday: National Lung Cancer Awareness Month
News4’s Pat Lawson Muse interviewed Dr. Stephen Liu of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
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News 4 Your Sunday: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
News4’s Pat Lawson Muse spoke with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Clinical Breast Cancer Program Associate Director Dr. Claudine Isaacs.
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‘Off Our Chests:' Doctor, Wife Share Personal Battle With Breast Cancer in New Book
A world-class oncologist from MedStar Georgetown University Hospital said he wasn’t prepared for the news that his wife had breast cancer. Together they wrote a book about their journey. News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports.
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News 4 Your Sunday: National Nurses Week
This week is National Nurses Week. News4’s Pat Lawson Muse spoke with magnet nurses Laurie Dohnalek and Endea Greizinger of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
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MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Program Provides Mental Health Services for DC Schools
News4’s Eun Yang spoke with a team at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital who is developing helpful strategies while embedded in D.C. schools that are most in need.
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Economic Relief Organization Provides Food to DC Health Care Workers
An economic relief organization called Off Their Plate has partnered with restaurants across the country to accept donations and provide food to hospitals. The group’s D.C. branch worked with The Alibi, a restaurant in Capitol Hill, to serve food to local hospitals, including MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Other health care partners in the District include Mary’s Center and United...
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Nonprofit Helps Restaurants and Hospitals
An economic relief organization called Off Their Plate has partnered with restaurants across the country to accept donations and provide food to hospitals. News4’s Aimee Cho report.
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National Cathedral Donates Thousands of Surgical Masks to Healthcare Workers
A divine discovery was made at the Washington National Cathedral: a stash of respirator masks — the kind desperately needed by nurses and doctors battling the coronavirus. News4’s Erika Gonzalez reports.
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National Cathedral Donates 5,000 Medical Masks Found in Crypt
Someone was doing routine work at the Washington National Cathedral — and found boxes and boxes of medical masks that are badly needed during the coronavirus outbreak. The cathedral donated 5,000 respirator masks to two Washington, D.C., hospitals after someone recently found the masks on the crypt level of the historic church, they announced Wednesday. Representatives from the cathedral delivered…
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‘Good Things Can Happen': Experimental Treatment Helps Maryland Woman Beat Lymphoma
A Maryland woman who suffered a lengthy battle with stage-three non-Hodgkin lymphoma is now in complete remission after receiving a promising new treatment that uses a patient’s own cells to fight cancer.
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Experimental Treatment Helps Maryland Woman Beat Lymphoma
“Good things can happen.” Daisy Diggs is now in complete remission after a lengthy battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. News4’s Aimee Cho reports Diggs was the first patient in a clinical trial for a new treatment at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
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Innovative Procedure Spares Breast Cancer Patient's Nipples
When a Pennsylvania man learned he needed a double mastectomy, he became self-conscious about how he would look afterward, but an advanced technique performed at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital allowed him to keep his nipples.
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Male Breast Cancer Patients Nipples Spared by Advanced Technique
When a Pennsylvania man learned he needed a double mastectomy, he became self-conscious about how he would look afterward, but an advanced technique performed at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital allowed him to keep his nipples. Doreen Gentzler reports.
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Alternative Treatment Can Drastically Reduce Symptoms of Debilitating Asthma
While medicine can control asthma, people who have it can end up in the emergency room, but there’s an alternative treatment that help people with debilitating asthma.
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Maryland Transplant Patient Is Hepatitis C Free After Agreeing to Take Infected Kidney
A transplant patient has a new kidney and is free of hepatitis C after deciding to take an infected kidney rather than staying on dialysis.
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Caps' Ovi Brings Stanley Cup to Kids at DC Hospital
Alex Ovechkin visited children at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital as part of his epic Stanley Cup victory tour.
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4 Treated After Raccoon Attacks in Georgetown
Four people are being treated for rabies exposure after a series of raccoon attacks in Georgetown, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital says.
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Classmate From Nearly 50 Years Ago Crosses Country to Donate Kidney
Last November Kenneth Walker sent out an important request to his fellow Archbishop Carroll High School alumni: He needed a kidney donor. Charlie Ball responded immediately. They both played a member of the Jets in their school’s edition of “West Side Story.”
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News 4 Your Sunday: Food 4 Families
News4’s Pat Lawson Muse speaks with community heroes who help kids and veterans. Robin Berkle, and Larry Ingram from Horton’s Kids, Gabrielle Wester of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, Gloria Dent who works in veteran’s employment, Janice Chance, president of the Maryland American Gold Star Mothers and Families and Kevin Morton, who helps connect veterans with...