Author: medweb
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Student Societies Connect Medical Students with Alumni
Feinberg’s student societies, a network of students across all four years of medical school, are hosting a series of Q and A conversations with alumni as part of a new program called “Real Physicians of Feinberg.”
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Tackling Gender and Sex Issues in Medical Education
Feinberg faculty members helped create new guidelines from the Association of American Medical Colleges for medical schools and academic medical centers to improve health care for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or who are born with differences of sex development.
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Physician Assistant Students Explore Day of the Dead Traditions
First-year physician assistant students visited Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood to learn about Mexican culture and Day of the Dead traditions.
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Longer Surgery Means Higher Blood Clot Risk
Recent Northwestern Medicine research shows that longer surgeries are associated with a higher risk of dangerous blood clots, a consistent trend across all procedures.
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Alzheimer’s “Buddies” Share their Experience
Jared Worthington, second-year medical student, Jean Schmidt Winship, program manager in the Physician Assistant Program and her husband presented on The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Buddy Program at the Canadian Health Summit in Toronto.
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Honoring Jeremiah Stamler
Feinberg celebrated the accomplishments of public health pioneer, and founding chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Jeremiah Stamler, MD at a recent event in his honor.
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Poster Presentations Showcase Student Research
Medical students presented their Area of Scholarly Concentration projects at a poster session on November 21.
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Children’s Relentless Seizures Halted By New Drug
A recent publication documents the first clinical application for pediatric patients with refractory status epilepticus, a life-threatening form of seizure disorder, providing hope for treatment.
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Uncovering the Mechanisms Behind Recovery from Childhood Egg Allergies
Northwestern Medicine scientists uncovered that allergic children who develop a natural tolerance to egg protein produce more of an anti-inflammatory protein, providing a potential biomarker to differentiate previously-allergic patients from children who still have the allergy.
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Fourth Annual Nano Boot Camp Gives Clinicians Insight on New Advances in Nanotechnology
The fourth annual Nano Boot Camp for Clinicians provided an overview on current research in the field.
