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Spring-quarter Lectures to Focus on Global Tobacco Issues
Beginning March 28, the spring quarter focus on tobacco combines a 10-week course, “Global Tobacco: Control and Prevention,” with a series of guest speakers.
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Harvard’s Donahoe Delivers Distinguished Women in Medicine and Science Lecture
Internationally known for her research on the mechanisms of birth defects, Patricia Donahoe, MD, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and director of the pediatric surgical research laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital, presented the 16th annual Distinguished Women in Medicine and Science Lecture on March 22.
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Researchers Discover New Genetic Path for Scleroderma
A genetic pathway previously known for its role in embryonic development and cancer has been identified as a target for systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, therapy. The finding, discovered by medical school researchers, was recently published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
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MD/MPH Student Heading to Symposium as New England Journal of Medicine Award Winner
One of 30 New England Journal of Medicine Gold Scholar essay winners, Feinberg student Rahul Ganatra will attend a special symposium on June 22 in Boston.
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In 2010, Ten Million American Children Diagnosed With ADHD
The number of American children leaving doctors’ offices with an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis has risen 66 percent in 10 years, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Alpha Omega Alpha Inducts New Class
The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society inducted its newest Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine members at a ceremony on Thursday, March 15.
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Student Receives Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Victor Roy, a second-year medical student and member of the Honors Program in Medical Education, received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.
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Feinberg rises in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has moved up one spot to No. 18 in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report rankings of top research-oriented medical schools in the country.
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Bulun Named Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Chair
Serdar Bulun, MD, chief of reproductive biology research, has been named the new chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and obstetrician-gynecologist-in-chief at Northwestern Memorial’s Prentice Women’s Hospital.
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New Screening Method Directs Stem Cell Differentiation
Northwestern University scientists have developed a powerful analytical method that directs stem cell differentiation. Researchers can use the method, called nanocombinatorics, to build enormous libraries of physical structures varying in size. Details of the method and proof of concept is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
