Byline: Sarah Plumridge
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Students Apply Humanities Skills to Medicine
First-year medical students explored the applied arts during a five-week seminar in medical humanities and bioethics.
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Student Knitting Group Aids Domestic Violence Survivors and Rehabilitation Patients
Medical students in the Fein Yarns and Healing Threads student group work with patients at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago on their fine motor skills through knitting, and making baby hats for underserved patient populations.
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Comparing Implanted Devices for Advanced Heart Failure
A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found a newer left ventricular assist device performed at least as well as existing devices on the market for patients with advanced heart failure.
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Evaluating A Novel Chemo-free Combination Therapy for Lymphocytic Leukemia
A phase 1 clinical trial of venetoclax and rituximab combination therapy was shown to be an effective chemo-free treatment option for patients with difficult-to-treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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Medical Students Present on the Strengths and Challenges in Chicago’s Neighborhoods
As part of their community health project, first-year medical students presented on the barriers populations in different Chicago neighborhoods face to lead healthy lives.
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Understanding How Calcium Channels Open and Close
Northwestern Medicine scientists identified the process by which a calcium channel called the CRAC channel opens and closes, and how mutations in the channel structures that control its opening cause disease.
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Residents and Fellows Participate in Wellness Activities
Northwestern housestaff took part in the first McGaw Resident and Fellow Wellness Week, aimed at addressing burnout and providing strategies to improve wellness.
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Overexpression of Protein Improves Cardiac Efficiency
Northwestern Medicine scientists showed how the overexpression of the protein SNRK in cardiac tissue improves cardiac metabolism and is protective against ischemic conditions.
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Identifying Neural Adaptations Underlying Cocaine Addiction
Northwestern Medicine scientists and co-authors defined a role for the WAVE1 protein in the cellular mechanisms behind cocaine addiction.
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Celebrating Sex Inclusion in Biomedical Research
Northwestern Medicine hosted a symposium for the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the National Institutes of Health’s landmark sex-inclusion policy.
