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  • Changing One Bad Habit has Domino Effect

    Changing One Bad Habit has Domino Effect

    A simple but profound new Northwestern Medicine study finds that simply changing one unhealthy habit can help you also eliminate others.

  • Building a Culture of Innovation at Feinberg

    Building a Culture of Innovation at Feinberg

    Over the past year there has been an increase in the amount of inventions, licenses, and startups generated from the medical school, especially in the area of medical devices.

  • Bringing the OR to Your PC: Teaching Evolves With Technology

    Bringing the OR to Your PC: Teaching Evolves With Technology

    As one of the first medical centers to capture high-definition video feeds from an operating room and deliver them to a personal computer, videoconferencing at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is continuing to evolve.

  • Batjer Leaving Feinberg after Pioneering Career in Neurological Surgery

    Batjer Leaving Feinberg after Pioneering Career in Neurological Surgery

    H. Huntington Batjer, MD, chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, is leaving Feinberg on September 1 after nearly 17 years of service.

  • Students, Staff Participate in Cuts for Cancer

    Students, Staff Participate in Cuts for Cancer

    Fourteen women donated hair at the second annual Cuts for Cancer event hosted by the American Medical Women’s Association on May 24. Donations were sent to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program, which supplies free wigs to women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment.

  • From Acrosome to Zygote: A New Lexicon of Reproductive Terminology

    From Acrosome to Zygote: A New Lexicon of Reproductive Terminology

    In response to the jargon that often emanates in healthcare, the Center for Reproductive Research created Repropedia, an online reproductive lexicon developed as a verified source of medical terminology for the average person.

  • Childhood Cancer Scars Survivors Later in Life

    Childhood Cancer Scars Survivors Later in Life

    Scars left behind by childhood cancer treatments are more than skin-deep. The increased risk of disfigurement and persistent hair loss caused by childhood cancer and treatment are associated with emotional distress and reduced quality of life in adulthood, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.

  • Circadian Clock Plays Role in Female Reproductive Issues

    Circadian Clock Plays Role in Female Reproductive Issues

    A new Northwestern University study shows that the biological clock is not the only clock women trying to conceive should consider. The circadian clock needs attention, too.

  • Penedo Joining Medical Social Sciences as Roswell Park Professor

    Penedo Joining Medical Social Sciences as Roswell Park Professor

    Frank Penedo, PhD, a nationally-renowned health psychologist, will join Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on June 1 as a professor of medical social sciences.

  • Study Shows Long-term Effects of Therapy to Reduce Fears

    Study Shows Long-term Effects of Therapy to Reduce Fears

    Northwestern study first to document the immediate and long-term brain changes after treatment to reduce fears, and to illustrate how the brain reorganizes long-term to reduce fear as a result of the therapy. The findings show the lasting effectiveness of short-exposure therapy for a phobia and offer new directions for treating other phobias and anxiety…