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Neurosurgery Interest Group Offers Students Glimpse Into Career as a Neurosurgeon At a recent Neurosurgery Interest Group event, first-year medical students Justin Vranic, Addason McCasslin, and Mitali Parmar participated in a suturing exercise. The Neurosurgery Interest Group at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine provides first- through fourth-year students numerous opportunities to learn more about[…]

Cancer Survivors Can’t Shake Pain, Fatigue, Insomnia, Foggy Brain When people finish treatment for cancer, they want to bounce back to their former vital selves as quickly as possible. But a new Northwestern Medicine study – one of the largest survivor studies ever conducted – shows many survivors still suffer moderate to severe problems with[…]

New iPhone App Tells Doctors How To Save Cancer Patients’ Fertility Cancer treatment can destroy a patient’s fertility, but not all physicians are familiar with the risks and options to preserve it. Now there’s an app for that. A new iPhone app, launched June 2, will give oncologists a quick reference guide for preserving the[…]

New Approach to Gene Therapy Could Treat Many Forms of Cancer Northwestern University chemists have synthesized a new form of DNA, one that can begin to be used to create new gene regulation therapies for the prevention or treatment of diseases such as cancer. The spherical structures, composed entirely of nucleic acids, can naturally enter[…]

HIV Prevention Efforts Should Focus on Serious Gay Relationships, Study Finds Gay young men in serious relationships are six times more likely to have unprotected sex than those who hook up with casual partners, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. The findings provide a new direction for prevention efforts in this population, who account for[…]

Innovation Day, Chicago Innovation Spotlight Highlight Emerging Biomedical Research Innovation Day Keynote Speaker Jack Kessler, MD, Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology and chair of the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, presented his research on the factors that influence the growth and differentiation of human embryonic stems cells. The Center[…]

New Study Defuses Controversy over Relationship between Rising PSA and Prostate Cancer A man’s rising PSA (prostate-specific antigen) level over several years – which has been seen as a possible warning sign of prostate cancer – has recently come under fire as a screening test because it sometimes prompts biopsies that turn out to be[…]

Alumni Weekend 2011 Members of the inaugural honors program in medical education class — (L-R) Drs. E. Allanah ruder, assistant professor in the division of Hematology/Oncology, wynne kearney, and Ira Weiss, associate professor in the division of cardiology — joined fellow alums to celebrate the program’s 50th anniversary at alumni weekend 2011. Members of the[…]

Illinois Women’s Health Registry Website Debuts In Spanish The Illinois Women’s Health Registry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has launched a Spanish language version of its web site to encourage Hispanic women to participate in local medical research with the aim of better understanding their health needs and access to health care. Hispanic[…]

Nation’s Second Participant Enrolls in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) recently enrolled their first subject in a national clinical research trial of a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for participants with a subacute thoracic spinal cord injury.[…]