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NIH’s Nabel Speaks on Genomics at Feinberg Lecture At the Feinberg Lecture reception, keynote speaker Dr. Elizabeth Nabel joins Dr. Francis Klocke, director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute. Americans have experienced a decline in heart disease in the past several decades, and the future holds even more innovative therapies to prevent heart attacks and[…]

February 28, 2006 Let Patients Describe Race/Ethnicity CHICAGO—Allowing patients to use their own terms to describe their race or ethnicity for medical records may help reduce differences in how health care is provided to racial and ethnic minorities versus whites, according to a study in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health.[…]

In Memoriam (Charles Staley) Charles J. “Tod” Staley, MD, associate professor emeritus of surgery at the Feinberg School, died February 19 at his Barrington, Illinois, home. He was 85. A general surgeon with special training in cancer surgery, Dr. Staley joined the medical school in 1954 and was promoted to associate professor in 1965. He[…]

March 21, 2006 Research Study Will Assess Use of Botox for Excessive Sweating in Teens CHICAGO—Forget that adage about how men sweat and women perspire. We all sweat, and it’s a good thing we do. Sweating controls body temperature. But some people, including adolescents, sweat copiously and uncontrollably following mild or even no stimulation. They[…]

February 20, 2006 Doctors Fail to Recommend Colon Cancer Tests CHICAGO—Fewer than nine out of 10 low-income, medically underserved minority patients at risk for colorectal cancer receive a recommendation for colorectal cancer screening by physicians at government-supported community health centers, according to a study by Northwestern University researchers. The researchers subsequently found that 7 percent[…]

February 7, 2006 Heart Disease Prevention Should Start Before Middle Age CHICAGO—If you think you’re too young to worry about heart disease or stroke—think again. Efforts to prevent America’s No. 1 and No. 3 killers should begin long before you’re middle-aged, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The study,[…]

February 21, 2006 Noted Cardiologist to Give Feinberg Lecture on March 8 CHICAGO—Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), will speak at the 10th Annual Frances Feinberg Lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, in the Conference Center of the Feinberg Pavilion, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 251 E. Huron[…]

February 1, 2006 Stem Cell Transplantation as Lupus TreatmentCHICAGO—About half of patients with severe lupus that does not respond to standard treatment and who undergo autologous stem cell transplantation to boost their immune system have substantial improvement of their disease after several years, according to preliminary research published in the February 1 issue of the[…]

Galter Library’s Restored Rare Books Featured at Block Museum Exhibit Albinus’ Tabulae Selecti et Musculorum Corporis Humani, published in 1747, required restoration before it could be displayed. The exhibit “Anatomy of Gender” at Northwestern’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art explores the relationship between sex, gender, and images of dissection in Renaissance and early[…]

Martha Twaddle Passionate About End-of-Life Care by Cheryl SooHoo Mentors have meant a great deal to Martha L. Twaddle, MD, GME ’89. She has valued their sage advice and used their counsel in many ways to define her life. So in 1989 when Harry J. Miller, MD, now associate professor emeritus of medicine and former[…]