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March 1, 2005 Most Adverse Events in Hospitalized Children Are Preventable CHICAGO—A study by researchers at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine suggests that nearly 70,000 children hospitalized in the United States per year experience an adverse event and that at least 60 percent of these errors may be preventable. Adverse events are injuries caused[…]

Sonja Boone Finds Mentoring Key to Diversity by Cheryl SooHoo Sonja (Davis) Boone, MD ’90, is no novice when it comes to minority physician recruitment. Long before her current position as director of diversity and medical director of physician recruitment at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), she assisted Northwestern’s medical school in its efforts to attract[…]

New Scale Predicts Recovery After Brain InjuryBy Elizabeth Crown A Northwestern University researcher has developed the first truly reliable measure of neurobehavioral functioning during coma from severe brain injury that predicts recovery of consciousness up to one year after injury, with up to 86 percent certainty. Theresa Louise-Bender Pape, DrPH, research assistant professor of physical[…]

March 8, 2005 Nanoparticle Breast Cancer Drug Approved by Food and Drug Administration Chicago—Research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine played a significant role in Food and Drug Administration approval of AbraxaneTM (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable suspension), indicated for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. “The approval means that women with metastatic breast[…]

Hendrix Lab Will Be Cancer Training Program Site By Elizabeth Crown The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named the laboratory of Northwestern University researcher Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD, the site of a new training program for NCI-funded scientists whose research is focused on tumor-host interactions. Dr. Hendrix’s laboratory, located at Children’s Memorial Research Center, was[…]

Feinberg School Seniors Meet Their Matches This year’s Match Day coincided with St. Patrick’s Day, so fourth-year students at the Feinberg School of Medicine had double the reason to celebrate. Match Day is the culmination of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), a process that uses a computer algorithm to match the preferences of applicants[…]

In Memoriam (Michele Till) Michele Till, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Feinberg School of Medicine, died March 24. A native Chicagoan, she was 46 years old. Dr. Till earned her bachelor of arts degree in chemistry and MD degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago in[…]

Symposium Features Canadian Minister of Health Fact: Forty-five million Americans go without health insurance.Fact: Every Canadian receives universal health care coverage.Fiction: Both countries have few worries when it comes to providing for the health and well-being of their citizens. The United States and Canada share a vast northern boundary and a common language. Yet these[…]

Effective Cancer Treatments Follow the ClockEVANSTON, Ill.— Oncologists have long thought that cancer treatments tend to be more effective at certain times of day. But they have been unable to turn this knowledge into practice because they did not understand the phenomenon well enough. Now, a research team including Joseph S. Takahashi, PhD, a Howard[…]