Recruitment Publication Wins AAMC Award Highly regarded by premed students and advisers, the Feinberg School’s primary recruitment publication for the MD degree program will receive national recognition on November 8, when it will receive an Award of Distinction from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) at the group’s annual meeting in Washington. Published in[…]

August 19, 2003 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Protein May Be Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease EVANSTON— Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered for the first time in humans the presence of a toxic protein they believe to be responsible for the devastating memory loss found in individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. An[…]

August 22, 2003 Risk Factor Almost Always Present in Most Heart Attacks CHICAGO— Results of a large-scale study from the Feinberg School of Medicine dispute claims that, at least half the time, fatal and nonfatal heart attacks occur in individuals who had shown no previous evidence of at least one coronary heart disease (CHD) risk[…]