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Students Organize Week-long Health Disparities Lecture Series
In recognition of Health Disparities Week, the student-led Health Disparities Task Force ran a program for medical students and faculty offering a week of lunchtime speakers focused on health equity issues.
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Researchers Show How the Immune System Detects Bacteria
Christian Stehlik, PhD, professor of Rheumatology at Feinberg, discovered a protein in macrophage cells that identifies bacterial cell wall components in harmful bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes.
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Bringing Hope, Blankets to Afghan Babies at Risk
Thanks to the quick thinking of a Northwestern Medicine pediatrician, 14,000 silver mylar blankets are headed to Afghanistan to help children in danger of freezing to death.
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Mentor Program Launches Girls into College for Science and Medical Careers
The mentoring program, Saturday Oncofertility Academy, offers primarily African American and Latina girls from disadvantaged backgrounds the chance to research and conduct experiments in fertility and cancer research with scientists and doctors at state-of-the-art Northwestern facilities.
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When Body Piercings Go Wrong
Northwestern Medicine looks at the complications and medical consequences of body piercings. The paper also offers suggestions to minimize complications.
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Khare Returns to Haiti to Teach Emergency Medicine
Two years ago, Rahul Khare, MD, joined more than 100 Northwestern Medicine volunteers in offering emergency medical care to victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. This month, he returned to offer his expertise and knowledge to doctors in Cap Haitien.
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Running the Great Wall of China for the CNADC
One man will embark on a mission equivalent to climbing Willis Tower, jogging to the Hancock Building, walking to the top, and then running the 24 miles roundtrip to Northwestern’s Evanston campus … all to support research for primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that has stricken his grandfather.
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Lectureship, Chair Established in Memory of Christopher Getch
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is honoring the memory of Christopher Getch, MD, who passed away unexpectedly on January 9.
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What Shields LGBT Youth from Suicide?
The first longitudinal study to look at suicide ideation and self-harm in the LGBT population shows support from friends and family offers the most protection.
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Student Awarded Prestigious Scholarship
A Feinberg student was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD in sociology at the University of Cambridge.
