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February 7, 2003 Lupus Link to Other Diseases Studied CHICAGO— A link between lupus, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease in young women may be key to understanding why postmenopausal women who do not have lupus are at increased risk for the bone mineral loss and heart disease. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that affects predominantly young,[…]

Northwestern Launches Neuroendovascular Service The Departments of Neurological Surgery and Radiology at the Feinberg School have launched a joint Neuroendovascular Service. Department chairs H. Hunt Batjer, MD, Michael J. Marchese Professor of Neurological Surgery, and Eric J. Russell, MD, Drs. Frederick John Bradd and William Kennedy Professor of Radiology, jointly recruited Bernard R. Bendok, MD,[…]

February 27, 2003 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Progesterone Regulates Male Mouse Behavior EVANSTON— In an unexpected discovery, a team led by Northwestern University scientists has become the first to show that progesterone, a hormone usually associated with female reproduction and maternal behavior, plays a key role in regulating male aggression toward[…]

Safety Improves on NU’s Chicago Campus Reported crimes against persons and property have dropped significantly during the past three years on the Northwestern University Chicago Campus, according to University Police statistics reported at a town hall meeting on campus safety held February 20 in Turnbull Auditorium. Crimes against persons dropped from 18 in 2000 to[…]

Chicago Magazine Features Breakthrough Doctors Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is well represented in Chicago magazine’s cover story on breakthrough doctors that appears in its January 2003 issue. Seven medical school faculty members, along with a staff member at a Northwestern–affiliated teaching hospital, are among the 17 doctors featured as “pioneers on the frontiers[…]

January 28, 2003 Digital X-Ray Shows View of Limb Regeneration CHICAGO— Employing high-tech, digital x-ray microtomography (microCT), Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine scientists have discovered the way in which newts form new bone and cartilage during limb regeneration. Newts are a type of salamander, the only vertebrates capable of rebuilding lost structures such as[…]

In Memoriam (William Beatty, Oscar Hechter) William K. Beatty, professor emeritus at the Feinberg School and former director of the medical library, died of a heart attack December 9 at Evanston (Ill.) Hospital; he was 76. Born in Toronto, Mr. Beatty spent most of his childhood traveling with his family in the northeastern United States,[…]

In Vivo Plays This Weekend More than 100 medical students from all four classes at the Feinberg School of Medicine will present In Vivo, the annual comedy-musical show on Friday, January 31, and Saturday, February 1. Playing from 7 to 9 p.m. each night at Thorne Auditorium, this year’s production is titled “Lube” and will[…]

Quilt Project Commemorates Historic Study Two quilts commemorating the historic Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) have been created by staff members and participants at the Feinberg School of Medicine’s WHI clinic on the Northwestern University Chicago campus. Northwestern became involved with the WHI, the largest clinical study ever conducted in the United States, when it was[…]

January 21, 2003 Researchers Search for Sex Reversal Gene CHICAGO— Northwestern University has received a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify the gene mutations that cause sex reversal, a condition in which individuals have the chromosomes of one sex but the physical attributes of the other, resulting in[…]