Byline: Kristin Samuelson
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‘Take this Seriously,’ Say Northwestern Doctors in COVID-19 Video
Using selfie video messages filmed in their workplaces, Northwestern Medicine physicians and medical experts on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic urge the community to take the health crisis seriously.
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Delivering Bad News: ‘Patients Remember These Conversations Forever’
A Northwestern Medicine study shows how simulation-based mastery learning helps train physicians to have difficult conversations with patients in a clear and compassionate way.
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Revolutionary Simple Blood Tests for Diabetic Complications, Cancer
A revolutionary new approach that analyzes a tiny sample of blood, can detect life-threatening vascular complications in diabetic patients earlier and more accurately than traditional tests.
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Map of Broken Brain Networks Shows Why People Lose Speech in Language-Based Dementia
Northwestern Medicine scientists have pinpointed the location of dysfunctional brain networks that lead loss of language in primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia.
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Total Heart Disease Deaths on The Rise
Total deaths from heart disease, stroke, diabetes and hypertension have been increasing since 2011, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Millennial Lung Health Is Focus of New $24.8 Million Grant
A first-of-its-kind longitudinal study led by Northwestern Medicine will track young adults’ lung health nationwide to better understand the key risk factors and biomarkers associated with impaired lung health.
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Alzheimer’s Treatment Holds Promise for Primary Progressive Aphasia Patients
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that an existing therapy used to treat Alzheimer’s disease might also work on patients with Primary Progressive Aphasia, a type of dementia that destroys language and currently has no treatment.
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Pediatric Leukemia ‘Super Drug’ Could be Developed in Coming Years
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered two successful therapies that slowed the progression of pediatric leukemia in mice, the first step towards a pediatric leukemia “super drug.”
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Two Type 2 Diabetes Drugs Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Disease
Two drugs commonly prescribed to treat Type 2 diabetes carry a high risk of cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, heart failure or amputation, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Skin Sensor Could Improve Life for a Million Hydrocephalus Patients
A new wireless, Band-Aid-like sensor developed at Northwestern University could revolutionize the way patients manage hydrocephalus — a potentially life-threatening condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain.
