Byline: Olivia Dimmer
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Experimental Drug Shows Potential for Hard-to-Treat Heart Disease
An experimental drug has been shown to improve symptoms, exercise capacity and heart failure status in patients with an inherited heart disease, according to a pair of newly published studies.
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Investigating the Role of Lymphatic Vessels in Heart Growth and Repair
A Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a previously unknown signaling system that helps regulate heart growth during development, according to the study published in the journal Genes and Development.
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Understanding the Link Between Genetic Risk and Brain Communication Disorders
A new Northwestern Medicine study suggests a major psychiatric risk gene remains important well into adulthood and may influence brain communication, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Investigating Tumor Growth After Immunotherapy
A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a biological mechanism that may explain why a subset of tumors unexpectedly grows at an accelerated rate after being treated with certain immunotherapies, according to findings published in Cancer Discovery.
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Experimental Drug May Disrupt Immune Circuits in Pneumonia
A drug that blocks calcium release-activated calcium channels may help interrupt harmful immune cell interactions that drive severe viral pneumonia, according to a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Study Finds Long-Term Benefits of Stroke Thrombectomy
A one-year follow-up analysis of a landmark clinical trial suggests that patients with severe strokes experienced better long-term outcomes after undergoing endovascular thrombectomy compared with medical management alone.
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Designing Supramolecular Therapies to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier
A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered key molecular design principles that could help supramolecular therapeutics cross the blood-brain barrier, a major challenge for the novel approach to treating neurological disorders.
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Empowering Health Professions Education in Africa
Through a longstanding collaboration with the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda, Feinberg medical educators support and train educators who will go on to teach thousands of future physicians, nurses and other health professionals.
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New Cellular Clues to Complications of Scleroderma
A recent Northwestern Medicine study published in JCI Insight has uncovered new clues about why people with systemic sclerosis, also known as scleroderma, frequently develop debilitating esophageal complications.
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Oxidative Stress Drives Rare Disease Flare-ups, Study Finds
Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a mechanism that may explain why people with Darier disease, a rare genetic skin disorder, often develop symptoms years after birth and experience painful flare-ups triggered by heat, sunlight and psychological stress.
