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  • Performing Skin Cancer Exam with Partner Could Save Your Life

    January 22, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Performing Exam for Skin Cancer with Partner Could Save Your Life CHICAGO—If you learn to examine yourself for skin cancer with a partner, you are more likely to follow up with self-exams that could detect early melanoma and save your life. Northwestern University researchers[…]

  • How Your Brain Helps You Become a Wine Expert

    December 27, 2006 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu How Your Brain Helps You Become a Wine Expert CHICAGO—You don’t need to sign up for pricey wine appreciation classes to parse the subtle difference between the black cherry bouquet of a pinot noir and the black currant scent of a cabernet sauvignon. Just[…]

  • Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization

    December 20, 2006 Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel at 847/491-4892 or atp-tremmel@northwestern.edu Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization EVANSTON, Ill.—You know the sensation. When something has your full attention you see it vividly. And when you don’t pay attention, you’re liable to miss something important. Now a new Northwestern University study sheds light on[…]

  • Researcher to Freeze Women’s Ovaries in Effort to Preserve Fertility after Cancer Treatment

    November 28, 2006 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Researcher to Freeze Women’s Ovaries in Effort to Preserve Fertility after Cancer Treatment CHICAGO—The Center for Reproductive Research at Northwestern University is launching an experimental research program for young women with cancer who may[…]

  • Study Finds Many Patients Don’t Understand Their Prescription Medicine Labels

    November 29, 2006 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or at marla-paul@northwestern.edu Study Finds Many Patients Don’t Understand Their Prescription Medicine Labels CHICAGO—When Michael Wolf, PhD, paged though dusty, yellowing pharmacists’ logs from the 1890s at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, he found the following entry about a druggist’s encounter with a confused[…]

  • Lecture Explores Health Disparities

    Lecture Explores Health Disparities Feinberg School alumnus Dr. Charles Modlin, a transplant surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, shares his insight on barriers to health care for minority populations. When a black man living in Harlem has less of a chance of reaching the age of 65 than a man in Bangladesh due to health status[…]

  • Enzyme May Hold Key to New Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease

    November 9, 2006 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Enzyme May Hold Key to New Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease CHICAGO—Researchers at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have found that an enzyme called ACE2 may hold the potential to treat diabetic kidney disease, the most common form of kidney disease. In the[…]

  • Jameson Named Dean of Feinberg School of Medicine

    November 15, 2006 Contact: Alan Cubbage at 847/491-4886 ora-cubbage@northwestern.edu Jameson Named Dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine CHICAGO—J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, has been named vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University effective July 1, 2007. His appointment was announced November 15 by University President[…]

  • Landsberg to Step Down

    Contact: Charles R. Loebbaka at 847/491-4887 or atc-loebbaka@northwestern.edu Landsberg to Step Down as Dean of Feinberg School of Medicine and Vice President For Medical Affairs at Northwestern CHICAGO—Lewis Landsberg, MD, has announced that he will step down as dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Northwestern University effective[…]

  • New Center Bridges Disciplines to Take 21st Century Look at Health Disparities

    November 8, 2006 Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel at 847/491-4892 or atp-tremmel@northwestern.edu New Center Bridges Disciplines to Take 21st Century Look at Health Disparities A group of researchers gathered last summer (and gave blood samples) at the first annual Summer Biomarker Institute hosted by Cells to Society. The social scientist didn’t flinch when a fellow social[…]