Trying to Bring Evidence-Based Practice to Behavioral Medicine How do behavioral scientists and practitioners incorporate the latest evidence-based interventions in their field into clinical practice and share them with other disciplines? Not easily, according to Bonnie J. Spring, PhD, professor of preventive medicine. Unlike the infrastructure that has evolved in evidence-based medicine to promote the…

April 12, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Stem Cell Transplant Resets Immune System in Type 1 Diabetes Patients CHICAGO—A Northwestern University researcher has used adult stem cell injections to reset the immune systems of patients with early-onset Type 1 diabetes. After the therapy, patients were free of taking insulin for up…

Alum Addresses Health Disparities Among Native Americans Patrick O’Connor, MD, ’82, likened the Indian reservation on which he has worked for more than 20 years to a Third World country in terms of health disparities but one that is being treated medically with first-world resources thanks to the U.S. Public Health Service. His lecture to…