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April 26, 2004 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Aha! Cognitive Neuroscientists Reveal Creative Brain Processes EVANSTON, ILL.— Think Isaac Newton getting hit on the head with an apple or Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone. While these creative or “Aha!” moments often are associated with scientific discoveries and inventions, most people occasionally[…]

April 14, 2004 April 20 Marks Lecture by Internationally Renowned Geneticist The Feinberg School’s Center for Genetic Medicine hosts a free public lecture by internationally known geneticist David Botstein, PhD, on April 20, from 4–5 p.m., in Turnbull Auditorium, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Ward 1-074, on the Chicago campus. Dr. Botstein, Anthony B. Evnin Professor[…]

April 9, 2004 “NU Explores” Travels to Washington Feinberg School of medicine faculty members Rex L. Chisholm, PhD, and John A. Kessler, MD, continue their travels for “NU Explores” on May 12, when they and Mark A. Ratner, PhD, professor of chemistry, will present “Small is Big: Science That’s Changing the Quality of Your Life”[…]

April 26, 2004 Medical Alumni Honored During Reunion Weekend At the Reunion Ball on April 24, the closing event of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s annual Alumni Weekend, pediatric endocrinologist Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, MD (shown here with Dean Lewis Landsberg, MD), received this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award. She credited Northwestern for instilling in her a[…]

  In this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings of research-oriented medical schools, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has moved up one place from last year, from 21st to 20th, tying with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The criteria for ranking research-oriented schools are research funding (30 percent), student selectivity[…]

Better Analysis Needed for Breast Cancer Treatment Treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)—a group of abnormal cells confined to the breast ducts—varies widely in the United States. Treatment ranges from potential overtreatment with aggressive surgical therapy to possible undertreatment by not providing radiation. In the absence of data that allow identification of women with[…]

CARDIA Marks 20th Year They say youth is often wasted on the young. Yet, when it comes to reducing coronary heart disease, it is the young who may have the most to gain from following healthy lifestyles starting in their youth, according to findings of the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.[…]

Free Public Lectures Focus on Ethnicity and Disease Ethnicity distinguishes people in many ways from language to culture. Unfortunately, certain genetic disorders also follow along the same lines and frequently occur among different ethnic populations. Discussing DNA, mutations, and dominant and recessive inheritance, Ira S. Salafsky, MD, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, will speak on[…]

Questions Raised on Shorter Hospital Stays During the past decade, time spent in-hospital has declined dramatically, even for patients with serious illnesses. This trend raises concern that increasing numbers of patients may be discharged before their conditions are stable, particularly if a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order has been written. A Northwestern University study of Medicare patients[…]

Lupus Discovery May Lead To Improved Drugs In an important development for the treatment of lupus as well as certain cancers, scientists at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University have discovered how autoimmune lupus T cells stave off programmed cell death and drive production of autoantibodies directed against the body’s own DNA. Syamal[…]