Month: August 2022

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.