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April 30, 2007 Helen Binns Tackles Lead Poisoning in Children Pediatrician Dr. Helen Binns (left) and attorney Anita Weinberg have served together on the Illinois Lead-Safe Housing Task Force for a decade. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Illinois leads the nation in the number of lead-poisoned children, a fact that[…]

Chinatown Residents Flock to Student-Run Health Fair First-year medical student Isaac Wu greets Yung An Yu, one of 264 participants in the annual student-run Chinatown Health Fair. At 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, April 15, a long line snaked its way along the front of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in Chicago’s Chinatown. Residents patiently stood[…]

April 24, 2007 Depression May Cause Diabetes in Older Adults Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu CHICAGO—Chronic depression or depression that worsens over time may cause diabetes in older adults, according to new Northwestern University research. This is the first national study to suggest that depression alone—and not lifestyle factors sich as being[…]

April 2, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Disabled People Hit Huge Roadblocks in Routine Health Care CHICAGO—Rachel steered her wheelchair into a Chicago-area medical center for a series of upper gastrointestinal tract tests. But when Rachel, who has cerebral palsy, entered the radiology lab, the technician told her she had to[…]

Silent Auction Proceeds Benefit Student Groups Among the 100 medical students helping to make the 2007 Silent Auction Fundraiser a success are (from left) Martin Pham, Arjun Venkatesh, Meghan O’Halloran, and Nafis Ahmed. On April 12 approximately 300 members of the Feinberg School community enjoyed hors d’oeuvres, live classical music, and elegant Indian Garba dancing[…]

Trying to Bring Evidence-Based Practice to Behavioral Medicine How do behavioral scientists and practitioners incorporate the latest evidence-based interventions in their field into clinical practice and share them with other disciplines? Not easily, according to Bonnie J. Spring, PhD, professor of preventive medicine. Unlike the infrastructure that has evolved in evidence-based medicine to promote the[…]

April 12, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Stem Cell Transplant Resets Immune System in Type 1 Diabetes Patients CHICAGO—A Northwestern University researcher has used adult stem cell injections to reset the immune systems of patients with early-onset Type 1 diabetes. After the therapy, patients were free of taking insulin for up[…]

March 13, 2007 Contact: Wendy Leopold at 847/491-4890 or atw-leopold@northwestern.edu Research Finds Musical Training Can ‘Tune’ the Auditory System EVANSTON, Ill.—A new study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons—even after it was clear that a professional music career was not in your future. The[…]

Alum Addresses Health Disparities Among Native Americans Patrick O’Connor, MD, ’82, likened the Indian reservation on which he has worked for more than 20 years to a Third World country in terms of health disparities but one that is being treated medically with first-world resources thanks to the U.S. Public Health Service. His lecture to[…]