Treatment with two medications that target the most common genetic cause of cystic fibrosis improves lung function and lowers the rate of pulmonary exacerbations, according to results from a Northwestern Medicine clinical trial.
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Students and faculty were recognized for their accomplishments and teaching at the Third Annual Honors Day celebration.
One hundred maps guide exploration of both the physical world and abstract ideas in Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, a visiting exhibit on display at the Galter Health Sciences Library through September 23, 2015.
A new Northwestern Medicine study validated a scoring system that measures physicians’ personal judgment of how sick a patient may become in the next 24 hours.
Northwestern Medicine scientists, inspired by treatments used by traditional healers in Nigeria, have synthesized four new chemical compounds that may lead to therapies for psychiatric disorders.
Northwestern Medicine scientists found increases in patient admissions, length of stay, medical treatments, and resource utilization for infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Prarthana Dalal, a first-year medical student, received a 2015 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society, to support her project studying a protein involved in inflammation.
Leaders from Northwestern University, the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern Medicine and the city of Chicago broke ground on the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center during a ceremony on May 8.
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a previously unknown key regulator of immune response, a protein kinase called Jnk2 that helps maintain cellular homeostasis through a series of physiological processes.
Claudia Leung, a third-year medical student, was recently awarded the Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship to pursue a clinical research project in Kenya to study the causes of heart failure among East Africans.