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February 7, 2003 Cardiac MRI Detects Heart Muscle Death CHICAGO— Researchers from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have demonstrated that cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology can detect small areas of dead heart tissue that cannot be detected by commonly used imaging techniques. Their finding is important because these small areas of muscle cell[…]

Family Medicine Grant Aids Underserved The nearly 130,000 underinsured residents and Medicaid recipients in Lake County, Illinois, will benefit from a $200,000 grant to the Department of Family Medicine at the Feinberg School and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH), working in conjunction with the Lake County Health Department. By enabling family medicine residents to complete rotations[…]

February 7, 2003 Lupus Link to Other Diseases Studied CHICAGO— A link between lupus, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease in young women may be key to understanding why postmenopausal women who do not have lupus are at increased risk for the bone mineral loss and heart disease. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that affects predominantly young,[…]

Northwestern Launches Neuroendovascular Service The Departments of Neurological Surgery and Radiology at the Feinberg School have launched a joint Neuroendovascular Service. Department chairs H. Hunt Batjer, MD, Michael J. Marchese Professor of Neurological Surgery, and Eric J. Russell, MD, Drs. Frederick John Bradd and William Kennedy Professor of Radiology, jointly recruited Bernard R. Bendok, MD,[…]

February 27, 2003 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Progesterone Regulates Male Mouse Behavior EVANSTON— In an unexpected discovery, a team led by Northwestern University scientists has become the first to show that progesterone, a hormone usually associated with female reproduction and maternal behavior, plays a key role in regulating male aggression toward[…]

Safety Improves on NU’s Chicago Campus Reported crimes against persons and property have dropped significantly during the past three years on the Northwestern University Chicago Campus, according to University Police statistics reported at a town hall meeting on campus safety held February 20 in Turnbull Auditorium. Crimes against persons dropped from 18 in 2000 to[…]

Two Northwestern-Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Named Among the Nation’s Top 15 Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) and Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) have been ranked among the top 15 major teaching hospitals and top 100 hospitals overall in a recent study of the health care industry. Both ENH and NMH are member hospitals of the McGaw Medical Center[…]

Chicago Magazine Features Breakthrough Doctors Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is well represented in Chicago magazine’s cover story on breakthrough doctors that appears in its January 2003 issue. Seven medical school faculty members, along with a staff member at a Northwestern–affiliated teaching hospital, are among the 17 doctors featured as “pioneers on the frontiers[…]

January 28, 2003 Digital X-Ray Shows View of Limb Regeneration CHICAGO— Employing high-tech, digital x-ray microtomography (microCT), Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine scientists have discovered the way in which newts form new bone and cartilage during limb regeneration. Newts are a type of salamander, the only vertebrates capable of rebuilding lost structures such as[…]

In Memoriam (William Beatty, Oscar Hechter) William K. Beatty, professor emeritus at the Feinberg School and former director of the medical library, died of a heart attack December 9 at Evanston (Ill.) Hospital; he was 76. Born in Toronto, Mr. Beatty spent most of his childhood traveling with his family in the northeastern United States,[…]