"You live with your body everyday, but do you really know it?" That's the first question from a new online quiz: "KnowYourBod.org." The 10 true or false question digital quiz, produced by the Institute for Reproductive Health at GUMC, probes the user's understanding of fertility awareness. 

Two Georgetown University professors say a section of the recently passed Congressional spending bill effectively undermines science and the health of women. Their JAMA Viewpoint, "A Public Health Framework for Screening Mammography: Evidence-Based Versus Politically Mandated Care," was published online last week. 

Georgetown forensic psychiatrist and mental health expert Liza Gold, MD, joined a roundtable discussion on gun violence that aired live on NewsChannel 8, Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 7pm. 

Thomas Sherman, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology physiology at GUSOM, offers this commentary originally posted on the "Georgetown Food Studies" blog about the recently released Dietary Guidelines. Sherman teaches metabolism, nutrition and endocrinology to first-year medical students. 

New and comprehensive analyses from six independent research teams examining breast cancer screening intervals have produced a unanimous finding - that mammography screening every two years for average risk women ages 50 to 74 offers a favorable balance of benefits to harm. 

As the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) prepares its final breast cancer screening recommendations, Georgetown family medicine physician Kenneth Lin, MD, MPH, points out in this opinion piece that, regardless of what the USPSTF decides, the U.S. Congress has already preemptively overruled them.