Author: medweb
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A Mission to Bring Epidurals to China
At a recent anesthesiology meeting, Ling Qun Hu, MD, presented his findings from part of his 10-year “No Pain Labor N’ Delivery China Initiative.” His goal is to teach Chinese doctors in at least ten medical centers how to give epidurals to decrease high cesarean delivery rates.
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Research Shows Keeping Cardiovascular Risk Factors Low Adds Up to 14 Years to Life
If you have optimal heart health in middle age, you may live up to 14 years longer, free of cardiovascular disease, than your peers who have two or more cardiovascular disease risk factors, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Investigating the Loss of Language
Tapping into resources only available at Northwestern, researchers at Feinberg have crafted a multidisciplinary study to investigate all aspects of primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia.
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Studying the Properties, Mechanisms of Proteins
PhD candidates Samuel Light and Joshua Waitzman study how the smallest levels of biological processes work, with the hope that their discoveries will lead to new or better drug therapies. Both scientists recently received the inaugural Driskill Award for Outstanding Student Achievement, which recognizes research that has clinical and translational significance.
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Study Finds Women, Even Regular Exercisers, too Sedentary
Emerging research shows that prolonged sitting has significant health consequences, including an increased likelihood of developing a chronic condition such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers.
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Exploring Bone Formation May Offer Insight into Birth Defects
Jacek Topczewski, PhD, research associate professor of pediatrics, is investigating how congenital malformations occur by focusing his lab on a specific family of proteins and their impact on cartilage formation.
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Montgomery Receives ASBH Lifetime Achievement Award
Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, is being honored with the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Assessing the Health of Chicago Communities
As part of the new curriculum, first-year medical students compiled information regarding health resources in 21 Chicago communities. Over the next few years, this project aims to have health data from all 77 Chicago communities, which they will make available to Northwestern physicians, who can use it to better understand their patients.
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PCOS Research Points to Gene Defect
With a five-year renewal of the Northwestern University Specialized Center for Research on Sex Differences, one of 11 National Institutes of Health-supported centers, Andrea Dunaif, MD, professor in medicine, is continuing her push to elevate the world’s understanding of polycystic ovary syndrome.
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Medical Simulation Brings New Training Tool to Urology
Simulators in use since June are helping residents and physicians in the Department of Urology learn and perfect their surgical skills. The state of the art technology is being tested as a means to improve real time skills by training doctors to perform minimally-invasive laser prostate procedures.
