Author: medweb
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Heavy Smoking Raises Prostate Cancer Risk in African Americans
Smoking at least a pack a day also increases the odds of this community developing a severe and harder to treat form of the disease.
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Dermatology Alumna Acts as Mentor for Students, Advocate for Patients
Shirley Chi, MD’01, GME’02, discusses how her education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shaped her career as a dermatologist, teacher, and advocate.
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Study Shows First Evidence that Fear Can Be Reduced During Sleep
The finding offers a potentially new way to enhance typical daytime treatment of phobias by adding a nighttime element.
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Circadian Clock Key to Efficient Metabolism
A Northwestern University-led research team underscores the importance of the biological timing system to the proper use of stored fuel.
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PhD Students Honored at Second Annual Driskill Day
Four awards were presented at the Second Annual Driskill Day – two to current students and two to recent graduates. The event celebrates the $10 million gift from the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Foundation.
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Creative Solutions Highlight Global Health Day 2013
More than two dozen medical students presented their summer research projects during the annual event that also included the University’s first One Book One Northwestern discussion of the year.
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Predicting Who Will Have Chronic Pain
In a study published September 16 in the journal Pain, A. Vania Apkarian, PhD, found that abnormalities in brain axons predispose people to chronic back pain after injury.
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Cohesion Protein May Play Role in Gene Expression
Cara Gottardi, PhD, is using a Pilot Project grant from the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center to study why half of the system that sticks cells together seems to pull double-duty, gravitating toward the nucleus and affecting gene expression.
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New Student-led Program Engages with Homeless Community
The Office of Diversity and Feinberg students partnered with the Fourth Presbyterian Church to create a new program, Good Neighbors. This group will provide resources and build relationships with the homeless population in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago.
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Pandolfino Appointed Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
John E. Pandolfino, MD, professor of medicine, has been appointed the Hans Popper Professor and chief of gastroenterology-hepatology in the Department of Medicine.
