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Sexual-Minority Patients Prefer Nonverbal Data Collection

THURSDAY, Jan. 3, 2019 — Sexual- or gender-minority (SGM) patients report greater comfort and improved communication with nonverbal collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) information in the emergency department, according to a study published online Dec. 28 in JAMA Network Open. Adil Haider, M.D., M.P.H., from Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, and […]

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Large collection of brain cancer data now easily, freely accessible to global researchers

A valuable cache of brain cancer biomedical data has been made freely available to researchers worldwide, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The dataset, REMBRANDT (REpository for Molecular BRAin Neoplasia DaTa) hosted and supported by Georgetown, is one of only two such large collections in the country. Information about the brain cancer data […]