Byline: Melissa Rohman
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Investigating Prevalence Risk of Familial Heart Failure
Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) was found to have a familial etiology in 30 percent of individuals diagnosed with DCM, and the overall risk for a family member of developing DCM was nearly 20 percent by the age of 80.
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SARS-CoV-2 Infection Increases Risk of Maternal Mortality and Obstetric Complications
Pregnant and postpartum individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy have an increased risk of maternal mortality or morbidity from obstetric complications, according to a recent study.
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Drug Combination Fails to Improve Outcomes in Influenza
A new combination of antiviral drugs did not improve clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with severe influenza, warranting further investigation into new therapeutic strategies, according to a recent clinical trial.
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Novel Combination Therapy May Extend Pancreatic Cancer Survival
A novel combination treatment approach extended survival in mice with pancreatic cancer, demonstrating a potential second-line therapy for patients.
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Medical Student Variety Show Supports Chicago Public School Families and Students
Medical students performed comedy skits and musical numbers that satirized the medical school experience at In Vivo, Feinberg’s annual sketch comedy and variety show.
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Feinberg Augments Anatomy Curriculum with Mixed Reality Software
A new anatomy curriculum for the MD and PA programs integrates the HoloAnatomy software, which allows students to visualize every part of the body through a virtual, three-dimensional perspective.
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Study Finds Dopamine Signaling Promotes Compulsive Behavior
Northwestern investigators have discovered that dopamine signaling in the dorsomedial striatum promotes the development of compulsive behaviors, according to findings published in Current Biology.
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Gene Therapy Promotes Transfusion Independence for Severe Beta-Thalassemia
A novel gene therapy promoted transfusion independence in more than 90 percent of adult and pediatric patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, according to a recent clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Neural Stem Cell Therapy May Improve Metastatic Cancer Survival
Neural stem cells engineered by Northwestern Medicine investigators used in combination with the HER2 inhibitor drug tucatinib improved survival in mice with HER2 positive breast cancer brain metastases.
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Remembering Jeremiah Stamler, MD, Founding Chair and Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine
Jeremiah Stamler, MD, founding chair and professor emeritus of Preventive Medicine, passed away on January 26. He was 102 years old.
