Author: medweb
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Walking at Home Improves Speed, Endurance for PAD Patients
Mary McDermott, MD, professor in general internal medicine and geriatrics and preventive medicine, recently published a study in JAMA that may change clinical guidelines for patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).
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Students Explore Biomedical Research as Part of New Curriculum
To hone critical thinking and investigational skills, rising second-year students conduct research projects over the summer as part of the new curriculum. Two students share their work in basic science.
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Study Finds Oxytocin Strengthens Memories of Both Bad and Good Events
While it’s long been known that oxytocin promotes feelings of love, social bonding, and wellbeing, only recently have scientists discovered it’s link to anxiety-producing bad memories.
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Lushniak Named Acting Surgeon General
A graduate of Northwestern’s Honors Program in Medical Education, Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, MD ’83, MPH, became acting surgeon general of the United States on July 17.
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Mechanism Behind Monitoring of Neuromuscular Blockers Discovered
Published in Anesthesiology, Eugene Silinsky, PhD, has found that calcium channels, and not a depletion of neurotransmitters as previously thought, are responsible for the decreased response in muscles treated by neuromuscular blockers. The finding could prove helpful in developing new therapies for a host of neuromuscular diseases.
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New Psychology Internship Track is Nation’s First to Focus on LGBT Health
Program will integrate training in mental healthcare for LGBT clients with rotations in an infectious disease clinic and more.
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Faculty Receive Searle Teaching Fellowships
Five Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members were accepted into the 2013-14 Searle Fellows Program, a year-long faculty development program.
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Interspecies Transplant Works in First Step for New Diabetes Therapy
In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, Northwestern Medicine® scientists have successfully transplanted islets, the cells that produce insulin, from one species to another. And the islets survived without immunosuppressive drugs.
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Thinning of Heart Muscle Wall Potentially Reversible
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists determined that patients with coronary artery disease and regional myocardial wall thinning often have only limited scarring.
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Project Continues to Bring to Light Unreported Drug Reactions
The Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports project issued reports on 33 serious adverse drug or device reactions in its first decade of existence, showing its value as an independent drug surveillance program.
