APAMSA Student Group Hosts Conference, Draws Attention to Asian-American Health Disparities Members of Feinberg’s Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA) led the planning of the sixth annual APAMSA Midwest Regional Conference, hosted on Northwestern’s Chicago campus on February 26. Hepatitis B, a disease which infects the liver, affects 1.4 million people in the United…

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) was joined by Steve Rosen, MD ’76, GME ’81, GME ’79, BSM ’74, director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, at a press conference on February 28 to protest the House of Representatives’ proposed $1.6 billion cut to the National Institutes…

Older Patients Confused About Multiple Drug Dosing Many older patients, who take an average of seven medicines a day, are so confused by the vague instructions on prescription bottles that they don’t realize they can combine their medications to take them more efficiently. A new Northwestern Medicine study shows patients thought they had to take…