Neurosurgery Interest Group Offers Students Glimpse Into Career as a Neurosurgeon At a recent Neurosurgery Interest Group event, first-year medical students Justin Vranic, Addason McCasslin, and Mitali Parmar participated in a suturing exercise. The Neurosurgery Interest Group at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine provides first- through fourth-year students numerous opportunities to learn more about…

Cancer Survivors Can’t Shake Pain, Fatigue, Insomnia, Foggy Brain When people finish treatment for cancer, they want to bounce back to their former vital selves as quickly as possible. But a new Northwestern Medicine study – one of the largest survivor studies ever conducted – shows many survivors still suffer moderate to severe problems with…

New Approach to Gene Therapy Could Treat Many Forms of Cancer Northwestern University chemists have synthesized a new form of DNA, one that can begin to be used to create new gene regulation therapies for the prevention or treatment of diseases such as cancer. The spherical structures, composed entirely of nucleic acids, can naturally enter…