PA Program Offers Students an Innovative Curriculum that is Directly Applicable to Clinical Practice The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine recently welcomed the first class of students to its Physician Assistant (PA) Program, a two-year graduate program that awards students a Master of Medical Sciences degree. James Van…

New Arsenic Nanoparticle Blocks Aggressive Breast Cancer You can teach an old drug new chemotherapy tricks. Northwestern University researchers took a drug therapy proven for blood cancers but ineffective against solid tumors, packaged it with nanotechnology and got it to combat an aggressive type of breast cancer prevalent in young women, particularly young African-American women.…

Scientists Discover Human Sperm Gene is 600 Million Years Old Just as styles in sexy clothes or fashion change from year to year and culture to culture, “sexy” genes, or genes specific to sex, also change rapidly. But there is one sex-specific gene so vital, its function has remained unaltered throughout evolution and is found…