Northwestern Medicine’s® Mary Mulcahy, MD, and Chicago journalist Randi Belisomo have launched a new website/portal that they intend to be the premier provider of information and support for everyone involved in end-of-life decisions.
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While it’s long been known that oxytocin promotes feelings of love, social bonding, and wellbeing, only recently have scientists discovered it’s link to anxiety-producing bad memories.
In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, Northwestern Medicine® scientists have successfully transplanted islets, the cells that produce insulin, from one species to another. And the islets survived without immunosuppressive drugs.
A new class of experimental drug-like small molecules is showing great promise in targeting a brain enzyme to prevent early memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease.
Northwestern Medicine® scientists have found the molecular pathway that can prevent the death of immature ovarian eggs due to chemotherapy, potentially preserving fertility and endocrine function.
In a surprising new finding, a Northwestern Medicine® study has found a common molecular vulnerability in autism and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Both disorders have symptoms of social impairment and originate during brain development in utero.
Research published in The Journal of Neuroscience identifies a new key factor in the generation of febrile seizures, leading to a new therapeutic target for humans.
A phase 1 clinical trial for the first treatment to reset the immune system of multiple sclerosis patients showed that the therapy was safe and dramatically reduced patients’ immune systems’ reactivity to myelin by 50 to 75 percent, according to new Northwestern Medicine® research.
Northwestern University has established a major new initiative – the Developmental Therapeutics Institute – with an initial $10 million investment that will bring more early-stage clinical studies of new anti-cancer approaches to Chicago. This program will also develop much needed new therapies for cancer and other diseases based on Northwestern’s preclinical and translational research by scientists on the Evanston and Chicago campuses.
The dangerously high salt levels in processed food and fast food remain essentially unchanged, notwithstanding numerous calls from public and private health agencies for the food industry to voluntarily reduce sodium levels, reports a new Northwestern Medicine® study conducted with the Center for Science in the Public Interest.