Author: Olivia Dimmer
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Health Equity Week Encourages Education and Action
Faculty, residents, trainees and students from Feinberg and beyond recently came together for Health Equity Week, a weeklong series of educational programming designed to expose the roots of healthcare inequities and actions to take to address them.
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Tracking Patient-Reported Symptoms Improves Cancer Care, Trial Finds
The use of patient-reported outcomes during cancer treatment improved overall patient care, according to a trial published in Nature Medicine.
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Understanding How Metabolism Contributes to Parkinson’s Disease
Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into how metabolic dysfunction contributes to Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
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Reducing Unnecessary Care With Electronic Alerts
Clinicians who received alerts via electronic health records systems were less likely to give unnecessary care to older adult patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Microbiota Transplant Shows Promise for Colon Infections
Microbiota transplantation is safe and effective for treating clostridioides difficile infections, according to a clinical trial published in the journal Gastroenterology.
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Exploring Shared Decision-Making in Atrial Fibrillation
The use of decision-making aids helped atrial fibrillation patients to be more informed about their care, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal.
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Reprogramming Compromised Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
Northwestern Medicine investigators have developed a new avenue to reprogram compromised immune cells to work against tumors, according to a study published in Science Advances.
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Genomic ‘Memory’ Governs the Building Blocks of Life, Study Reveals
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating the building blocks of life, according to a new study published in Science Advances.
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Young Physician-Scientist Awards Honor Feinberg Pathologists
Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology in the Division of Molecular Pathology, and Waihay Wong, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology, have been named recipients of the 2025 Young Physician-Scientist Award.
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Investigating the Impact of Vaccination on Long COVID Symptoms
Vaccination status does not impact the severity of neurological symptoms of long COVID, according to a Northwestern Medicine-led study published in Brain Communications.
