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Night Owls at Risk for Weight Gain and Bad Diet Staying up late every night and sleeping in is a habit that could put you at risk for gaining weight. People who go to bed late and sleep late eat more calories in the evening, more fast food, fewer fruits and vegetables, and weigh more[…]

Feinberg Student Group Focuses on Environmental Responsibility Physicians for Society Responsibility members (L-R) Connie Choi, Lizhou Huang, Peter Orris, MD, MPH, adjunct assistant professor of preventive medicine, and Alexander Sheu, joined Sarah Lovinger, MD, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Chicago Chapter, to discuss the effects of global warming on human health. Students from[…]

Public Confused About Ingredients in Pain Relievers People take billions of doses of over-the-counter pain relievers like Tylenol every year, but many do not pay attention to the active ingredients they contain, such as acetaminophen, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. That lack of knowledge about popular pain relievers, plus particular ignorance of acetaminophen’s[…]

AMWA, WFO Host Mentoring Tea to Advance Women in Medicine (L-R) First-year medical students Mindy Hoffman and Silvia McCandlish serve as co-presidents of Feinberg’s chapter of the American Medical Women’s Association. The group worked with members of the Women’s Faculty Organization to organize the mentoring tea. The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine chapters of[…]

Feinberg Students Offer Services to Underserved through Alternative Spring Break During Alternative Spring Break, Feinberg students served children and young adults through the Cheyenne River Youth Project. The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, located in Eagle Butte, S.D., sits within Dewey County, the poorest county in the United States. Working with members of the Cheyenne River[…]

Feinberg Investigators Showcase Studies at Research Day 2011 Irena Garic, MPH, clinical research coordinator in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, shared her research related to neurological disorders and pregnancy at the seventh annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day on April 7. The Research Office at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine hosted its[…]

2011 Distinguished Women in Medicine and Science Lecture Kathleen Green, PhD, Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr., Professor of Pathology and Toxicology at Feinberg, presented the 15th annual Distinguished Women in Medicine and Science Lecture. The Women Faculty Organization (WFO) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine recently hosted its 15th annual Distinguished Women in Medicine and[…]

Electronic Records Speed Genetic Studies Recruiting thousands of patients to collect health data for genetic clues to disease is expensive and time consuming. But that arduous process of collecting data for genetic studies could be faster and cheaper by instead mining patient data that already exists in electronic medical records, according to new Northwestern Medicine[…]

Feinberg Invites Accepted Students to Take a Second Look During a Second Look tour, staff member Brian Florek (left) taught prospective student Pietro Bortoletto how to perform an intubation using the training tools available in the Simulation Technology and Immersive Learning Center. The Office of Admissions at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine hosted its[…]

Northwestern Highlights International Programs, Collaborations at Global Health Week Physicians and researchers from Northwestern and its partner institutions across the world shared research opportunities and global health strategies at the University’s first-ever Global Health Week. Northwestern University held its first-ever Global Health Week April 5-8 on the Evanston and Chicago campuses. The event welcomed almost[…]