Byline: Marla Paul
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Stress Reduction Therapy Prevents M.S. Brain Lesions
A weekly stress management program for patients with multiple sclerosis prevented the development of new brain lesions, a marker of the disease’s activity in the brain, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.
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New Study Finds Many Agencies Place Unqualified Caregivers in Homes of the Elderly
A troubling new national study finds many agencies recruit random strangers off Craigslist and place them in the homes of vulnerable elderly people with dementia, don’t do national criminal background checks or drug testing, lie about testing the qualifications of caregivers, and don’t require any experience or provide real training.
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Northwestern Docs and Illinois Gov. Quinn Team Up to Train Junior-high Kids in CPR
A new bill signed by Illinois Gov. Quinn aims to train all sixth through eighth graders across the state in hands-only CPR and how to use an automated external defibrillator.
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Professor’s Book Explores State of Hypochondria in America
We have become a nation of hypochondriacs, says a Northwestern Medicine professor in a new book that explores our ratcheting anxiety about our bodies and health.
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City Kids Much More Likely to Have Food Allergies than Rural Ones
New Northwestern study is the first to map children’s food allergies by geographical location in the United States.
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Telephone Therapy Retains More Patients than Face-to-face Sessions
New Northwestern Medicine research shows patients who had therapy sessions provided over the phone were more likely to complete 18 weeks of treatment than those who had face-to-face sessions.
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New Brain-Machine Interface Could One Day Help Paralyzed Individuals
A new Northwestern Medicine brain-machine technology delivers messages from the brain directly to the muscles, bypassing the spinal cord, to enable voluntary and complex movement of a paralyzed hand.
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First Blood Test to Diagnose Major Depression in Teens
A Northwestern Medicine scientist has developed the first blood test to diagnose major depression in teens, a breakthrough approach that allows an objective diagnosis by measuring a specific set of genetic markers found in a patient’s blood.
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Overweight Moms with Moderately High Blood Sugar Raise Health Risk
A new study from Boyd Metzger, MD,a professor of medicine-endocrinology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, shows women who are just above average for weight and blood sugar are at a higher risk of bad pregnancy outcomes than previously known.
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New Drug Halts the Spread of Human Prostate Cancer Cells
A new drug developed by Northwestern Medicine® scientists prevented human prostate cancer cells from spreading to other tissues without any toxic effects to normal cells or tissues. The drug turns off the “go” switch in the cancer cells and immobilizes them.
