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June 12, 2003 Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel at 847/491-4892 or atp-tremmel@northwestern.edu Study on Differences in Female, Male Sexuality EVANSTON, ILL.— Three decades of research on men’s sexual arousal show patterns that clearly track sexual orientation—gay men overwhelmingly become sexually aroused by images of men and heterosexual men by images of women. In other words, men’s[…]

VA Chicago Moves Inpatient Care to West Side Division On August 7all inpatient care at the VA Chicago Health Care System—Lakeside Division, located on Northwestern University’s Chicago campus, will move to the VA West Side Division, located on Chicago’s Near West Side. The Department of Veterans Affairs is carrying out its Capital Asset Realignment for[…]

May 20, 2003 $6.8 Million Grant Funds Alzheimer’s Study CHICAGO— Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has received a $6.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to unravel the molecular triggers that cause overactivation of glia brain cells that leads to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and other diseases. Glia are important cells[…]

Cancer Survivors’ Walk Draws 4,000 Approximately 4,000 cancer survivors, friends, family members, and others touched by cancer participated in the 10th Annual Cancer Survivors’ Celebration and Walk, which kicked off June 1 at 9 a.m. at Chicago’s Grant Park. The five-mile, lakefront walk was sponsored by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern[…]

Northwestern Remembers Reuben Feinberg “A straight-talking, unassuming, and generous man….who enjoyed life….who was committed to improving health care for the people of Chicago….who gave Northwestern a big boost.” These were among the many attributes describing Reuben Feinberg heard by friends, colleagues, and family members when they gathered May 19 in Thorne Auditorium on Northwestern University’s[…]

May 5, 2003 Foundation Gift Funds Virology Research Center CHICAGO— The Drucker Family Foundation has made a $5 million gift to Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine through the Midwest AIDS Foundation/Engle Fund to create the Fred and Norman A. Drucker Virology Research Laboratories at the medical school. The labs will occupy the entire 12th[…]

Graduates Urged to Be High Tech and High Touch Surrounded by family members and friends, 164 medical students celebrated their official entry into the medical profession at the Feinberg School’s 145th Graduation Convocation, held May 23 at Navy Pier’s Grand Ballroom. The event featured guest speaker Jordan J. Cohen, MD, president of the Association of[…]

Schweitzer Fellows Help the Underserved Just as the program’s namesake Dr. Albert Schweitzer helped needy people in Africa, the 28 health care students participating in the 2003–04 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program will help the underserved as they work with agencies providing health care to fragile populations. Among next year’s Schweitzer fellows are first-year Northwestern[…]

April 18, 2003 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Nanotechnology May Help Overcome Current Limitations of Gene Therapy CHICAGO— Scientists from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Argonne National Laboratory have created a hybrid “nanodevice” composed of a “scaffolding” of titanium oxide nanocrystals attached with snippets of DNA that may[…]

Public Invited to Free Lecture on Genetic Testing As part of its ongoing effort in public education, the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Genetic Medicine is holding a free lecture for the public, “Genetic Testing and Common Disease.” Learn how genetic testing will be applied to common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s[…]