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Heartburn Meds Ineffective for Some Asthma Patients Dr. Lewis Smith For nearly 20 years, doctors believed severe asthma symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, and breathlessness were triggered, in part, by acid reflux. Asthma sufferers were often prescribed heartburn medication in an effort to help their asthma symptoms. A new national study, led in Illinois by[…]

Stephen Miller Named Award Winner at Research Day (From left) Drs. Lewis Landsberg, Stephen Miller, and Rex Chisholm At the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Lewis Landsberg Research Day, keynote speaker Stephen D. Miller, PhD, Judy Gugenheim Research Professor of Microbiology-Immunology, was named winner of the Tripartite Legacy Faculty Award in Translational Science and Education. Created[…]

Sesquicentennial Banner Is Out of This World The Feinberg School of Medicine’s sesquicentennial banner Certainly the founding fathers of the Feinberg School of Medicine never dreamed that its 150th anniversary would be celebrated in outer space. With the purple and white sesquicentennial banner tucked away in his official flight kit, Feinberg School alum Michael Barratt,[…]

Stem Cell Story Wins Broadcasting Award The documentary film Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, focusing on the stem cell research and personal story of Feinberg School faculty member Jack Kessler, MD, and his daughter, Allison, now a medical student at the Feinberg School, has won a Peabody Award—one of the most prestigious awards in[…]

High Rate of Patients Readmitted to Hospital Dr. Mark Williams When a patient is discharged from the hospital, just about the last thing he or she wants is to be back in again within the next month. But a new national study has found that’s exactly what happens to one out of five Medicare patients,[…]

Sesquicentennial Banner Is Out of This World The Feinberg School of Medicine’s sesquicentennial banner Certainly the founding fathers of the Feinberg School of Medicine never dreamed that its 150th anniversary would be celebrated in outer space. With the purple and white sesquicentennial banner tucked away in his official flight kit, Feinberg School alum Michael Barratt,[…]

Patients’ Stem Cells Could Treat Their Heart Disease Dr. Douglas Losordo Preliminary data presented on March 28 as a late-breaking abstract at the American College of Cardiology’s 58th annual scientific session from the largest CD34+ adult stem cell study for heart disease has shown the first evidence that delivering a potent form of autologous (from[…]

PAD Study Challenges Traditional Thinking Dr. Mary McDermott A recent study by a Feinberg School researcher challenges traditional thinking about what should be considered a normal score for an ankle-brachial index (ABI), a simple test used to diagnose peripheral artery disease. Furthermore the data suggest that even those with a borderline or low normal ABI[…]

Astronaut/Alum Carries University Banner in Space Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, Expedition 19 commander (center), NASA astronaut Michael Barratt (left), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata Astronaut Michael Barratt, who earned his MD from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, blasted off to the International Space Station today (March 26) with a white and purple[…]

NU Trustee Ann Lurie Honored With Humanitarian Award Ann Lurie Northwestern University trustee and philanthropist Ann Lurie has received the 2009 Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. The award was presented on March 24 at an awards ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton,[…]