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Fundraising Efforts Send Ultrasound to Largest Hospital in Uganda
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine student organization Unite for Uganda raised about $5,000 to ship an ultrasound machine to Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
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New Chemo Drug Found to be Gentler on Fertility, Tough on Cancer
A new gentler chemotherapy drug in the form of nanoparticles has been designed by Northwestern Medicine scientists to be less toxic to a young woman’s fertility but extra tough on cancer. This is the first cancer drug tested while in development for its effect on fertility using a novel in vitro test.
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Northwestern Partners in Consortium to Develop New Ways to Treat Macular Degeneration
Northwestern University scientists are part of a multi-institution interdisciplinary consortium that has been awarded a $6.2 million grant over five years from the National Eye Institute to develop new treatments for exudative age-related macular degeneration.