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Health Care Fraud Growing, Says Lisa Madigan As attorney general of Illinois, Lisa Madigan serves as the “people’s lawyer,” protecting consumers from fraudulent practices, recovering restitution on their behalf, and educating them about emerging scams. So why was she the keynote speaker at the Buehler Center on Aging’s long-term care conference held May 22 at[…]

May 9, 2006 Genetic Risk Factor for Prostate Cancer DiscoveredCHICAGO—Scientists from The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University participated in the discovery of a common genetic variant that predisposes men to prostate cancer. The gene discovery is described in a study in the online issue of Nature Genetics and will appear in[…]

May 2, 2006 University Receives $3.5 Million in Stem Cell Grants EVANSTON—Northwestern University has received almost $3.5 million in grants from the State of Illinois that will fund three stem cell research projects. The awards came from the Illinois Regenerative Medicine Institute (IMRI), which issues grants to medical research facilities for the development of treatments[…]

May 2, 2006 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Discoveries Should Aid Research into Cause of ALS EVANSTON, Ill.—Two teams of researchers at Northwestern University have found a novel pathological hallmark of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the molecular level. The neurologists and biochemists show how and why the mutated[…]

May 18, 2006 Program Launched to Treat Skin Problems from Anticancer Drugs CHICAGO—Northwestern University has launched the nation’s first program to treat skin conditions resulting from anticancer drugs. The Cancer Skin Care (Cancer Study of Chemotherapy-Induced Cutaneous Adverse Reactions) Program was established to develop research and clinical management strategies for skin conditions in cancer patients[…]

April 25, 2006 Education Linked to Atherosclerosis CHICAGO—Higher levels of education are associated with a lower prevalence of coronary artery calcium, an indicator of low-grade or asymptomatic atherosclerosis (thickening and plaque deposits in the artery walls) among young adults and those in early middle age, according to a study in the April 19 issue of[…]

March 28, 2006 Drinkers, Smokers, and Men Develop Colorectal Cancer Earlier CHICAGO—Alcohol use, tobacco smoking, and male gender are associated with an earlier onset of colorectal cancer and with location of tumors, according to a study by Northwestern University researchers. Findings from the study, published in the March 27 issue of the Archives of Internal[…]

Julius Dewald Named Department Chair Dean Lewis Landsberg, MD, has named Julius P.A. Dewald, PT, PhD, chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, effective April 1. Dr. Dewald has been associated with Northwestern since 1988 when he was a postdoctoral fellow in physiology. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from Vrije[…]

In Memoriam (Howard Lieberman) Howard L. Lieberman, MD, GME ’49, professor of clinical ophthalmology, died of respiratory failure March 17 in Chicago; he was 83. Born and raised on Chicago’s North Side, Dr. Lieberman received his MD degree from the University of Illinois in 1946. There he met his future wife, Natalie. They were married[…]

March 28, 2006 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu New ‘Litmus Test’ Could Aid Discovery of Anti-Cancer Drugs EVANSTON, Ill.—Using the unusual color properties of gold at the nanoscale, scientists at Northwestern University have developed a “litmus test” for DNA and small molecule binding that eventually could be used by pharmaceutical companies to[…]