Byline: Roger Anderson
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Unique Obstacles for Women with Gestational Diabetes Mean Better Treatments Needed
A collaborative study using semi-structured interviews with black, white, and Hispanic women found that among the factors deterring lifestyle changes are lack of time and fatigue associated with motherhood.
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Four Decades Later, Meltzer’s Work on Schizophrenia Still Breaking New Ground
A leader in the field of antipsychotic drugs, Herbert Meltzer, MD, professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has published an update on their use in the Annual Review of Medicine.
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IPHAM Launches Center for Community Health
As one of eight centers in the Institute for Public Health and Medicine, the CCH will facilitate multi-disciplinary, partnered efforts to envision and investigate a frontier of medicine that integrates public policy and population health.
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Feinberg Hosts Inaugural Lurie Prize Award Ceremony
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, was awarded the inaugural Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences for discoveries related to the immune system.
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Impact of Diet, Nutrition Focus of Annual Women’s Health Event
Held in conjunction with National Women’s Health Week, the event featured a lecture, poster session, and vendor fair.
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Stone Chair of Committee That’s Reshaping Nation’s Cholesterol Guidelines
Neil Stone, MD, is chair of a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute panel scheduled to issue new cholesterol guidelines which may reshape the treatment of millions of Americans.
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Annual Alzheimer Day Highlights Science, Realities of Disease
Event provides the opportunity for students and researchers to learn more about the important aging and dementia research taking place at Northwestern.
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Disease Specialist to Head Neurology
Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD, a distinguished investigator of international stature whose research has had a transformative impact in the area of neurodegenerative diseases, will join Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on July 1 as Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor, chair of the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, and director of the newly established…
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Unknowns in Osteoporosis, Bone Metastases Keep Stern on Path to Discovery
Having dedicated her career to investigating how bones are developed and the mechanisms that cause their deterioration, Paula Stern, PhD, recently published an article on vitamin D and its effect on osteoperosis.
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Race, Ethnicity Affect Obstetric Care, Outcomes
William Grobman, MD, MBA, professor in obstetrics and gynecology-maternal fetal medicine, reviewed data from 115,502 women over a three year period and determined that race and ethnicity affect obstetric care and outcomes.
