Georgetown Journal of Health Sciences

Georgetown
Journal of Health Sciences

Volume 1 No 2, October 22, 2003

Students Presenting Posters at the 2003 Spring Research Conference

The School of Nursing and Health Studies hosted its first Undergraduate Research Conference on April 4-5th in the West Wing of the newly renovated St. Mary's Hall. During the research conference, students, faculty, and speakers were given an opportunity to present current scientific and health related research.

Click here for poster abstracts and other information
about the conference>>>

Highlights from this Issue

The Correlation Between: Endometrial Cancer and Obesity: The Necessary Public Health Response
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer. Data from 1999 show that in the United States, endometrial cancer accounted for roughly 6% of all incident cancers and 2% of cancer deaths in women...

Click here for more>>>

Safe Passage - Astronaut Care for Exploration Missions
The constraints that space travel puts on humans are unlike anything they would encounter on Earth. While the field of health care and delivery is an ever expanding entity, the reality is that the current knowledge on the structure of health care delivery in deep space is severely lacking....

Click here for more>>>

To Err Is Human – Building A Safer Health System
The severity of harm done to patients due to medical errors is dangerously under-recognized. The medical liability system, by its very nature, poses a serious impediment to any efforts made to expose errors so that future health providers may learn from them...

Click here for more>>>