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Home » Archives for August 2022

Month: August 2022

Clinical Breakthroughs
Aug 31, 2022

Survivors of Childhood Cancer Still at Risk for Infection Years After Diagnosis

After a pediatric cancer diagnosis, chances of infections remain elevated for more than a decade, according to a recent study.

Campus News
Aug 30, 2022

Feinberg Shares New Research Priorities

Four new research priorities have been identified, including synthetic biology, therapeutic development, social determinants of health and implementation science.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Aug 30, 2022

Leading Translational Gastroenterology Research

Northwestern Memorial Hospital was recently ranked seventh in the country for Gastroenterology & Gastrointestinal (GI) surgery by US News and World Report. This article was originally published in August 2022 Breakthroughs.

Education News
Aug 30, 2022

Inside the Feinberg Curriculum: The Education-Centered Medical Home

Feinberg’s Education-Centered Medical Home program allows medical students to provide continuous, primary care to underserved and diverse patient populations, and to help them better understand chronic conditions in a variety of clinical settings.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Aug 30, 2022

Investigating the Utility of Polygenic Risk Scores for CHD

Polygenic risk scores demonstrated minimal clinical benefit in predicting long-term coronary heart disease when added to a traditional risk factor model, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Aug 29, 2022

Northwestern Awarded First-Ever National Grant to Study Wearables, Stroke Prevention in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Northwestern University has been awarded a seven-year grant to study a “pill-in-pocket” strategy to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, the most common heart rhythm disorder in adults.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Aug 25, 2022

Coming Wave of Opioid Overdoses ‘Will be Worse Than Ever Been Before’

Geography played a role in opioid-involved overdose deaths in the past, but a coming wave may discriminate between rural and urban areas, according to a recent study.

Scientific Advances
Aug 24, 2022

Investigating the Role of Dopamine Circuits in Habit Formation

Scientists have uncovered how dopamine connects subregions of the striatum essential for habit formation, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.

Scientific Advances
Aug 23, 2022

Protein Transformation Drives Cancer Development

A change in function in a mitochondrial protein is associated with gene expression that may promote the development of cancer, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine Study.

Campus News
Aug 22, 2022

Northwestern Launches New Center for Human Immunobiology

In the newly formed Center for Human Immunobiology, teams of interdisciplinary scientists and clinicians will work together to understand the immune system at the molecular level and translate new discoveries into cures for immune-regulated diseases.

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