Quilt Project Commemorates Historic Study Two quilts commemorating the historic Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) have been created by staff members and participants at the Feinberg School of Medicine’s WHI clinic on the Northwestern University Chicago campus. Northwestern became involved with the WHI, the largest clinical study ever conducted in the United States, when it was…

January 21, 2003 Researchers Search for Sex Reversal Gene CHICAGO— Northwestern University has received a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify the gene mutations that cause sex reversal, a condition in which individuals have the chromosomes of one sex but the physical attributes of the other, resulting in…

Two Northwestern-Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Named Among the Nation’s Top 15 Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) and Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) have been ranked among the top 15 major teaching hospitals and top 100 hospitals overall in a recent study of the health care industry. Both ENH and NMH are member hospitals of the McGaw Medical Center…