New Evidence That Heart Scans Can Help Flag High-Risk Heart Patients Every year, thousands of people get heart scans that provide pictures of calcium deposits in their coronary arteries. Studies have shown that the coronary artery calcium score (CACS) can point to signs of atherosclerosis and predict future heart attacks. A new Northwestern University Feinberg…

Doctor of Physical Therapy Program Provides Research Opportunities, Teaches Feinberg Students to Practice Patient-Centered Care The Doctor of Physical Therapy Program (DPT), housed in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (NUPTHMS), can not only boast about its standing as the oldest physical therapy school in the…

Q&A: Dr. Tanya Simuni Discusses Latest Parkinson’s Research at Medical School Michael J. Fox, a prominent spokesperson in the fight against Parkinson’s disease, is an example of a person with young onset of the disease. Yet the reality is that Parkinson’s is the second most common chronic neurological disease of aging. The exciting question being…