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  • New Grant Will Train More Primary Care Physicians in Chicago

    New Grant Will Train More Primary Care Physicians in Chicago Innovative program for Northwestern residents in community health setting A consortium including the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Erie Family Health Center, and Norwegian American Hospital will receive a new federal grant that could reach $16 million over five years to support an innovative[…]

  • New Prostate Cancer Test Gives More Accurate Diagnosis

    In a large, multi-center clinical trial, a new PSA test to screen for prostate cancer more accurately identified men with prostate cancer – particularly the aggressive form of the disease – and substantially reduced false positives compared to the two currently available commercial PSA tests, according to newly published research from Northwestern Medicine. The only[…]

  • Feinberg Students Showcase Diversity through Music, Dance, Fashion in Fusion 2011

    Feinberg Students Showcase Diversity through Music, Dance, Fashion in Fusion 2011 The band Gulab Jammin’ started the Feinberg Fusion show with a set that combined traditional Indian music and instruments with modern pop and rock songs. Members of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Class of 2014 hosted the annual multicultural talent and fashion[…]

  • Graduating Feinberg Medical Students Earn Residency Placements at Match Day 2011

    Graduating Feinberg Medical Students Earn Residency Placements at Match Day 2011 Juan Bautista and his wife Nicole were thrilled to learn that he matched at their hometown teaching hospital, University of California, San Francisco-Fresno. Graduating Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students gathered with their family, friends, and faculty mentors at Gino’s East of Chicago[…]

  • Traisman Lounge Celebrates Post-Renovation Rededication

    Traisman Lounge Post-Renovation Rededication Feinberg students Chris Childers, Bruce Henschen, and Silviu Diaconu, showed their support at the rededication celebration for the Howard S. and Regina G. Traisman Medical Student Center. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty, staff, and students celebrated the rededication of the Howard S. and Regina G. Traisman Medical Student Center[…]

  • Feinberg Students Recruit Blood Donors through Red Cross Club

    Feinberg Students Recruit Blood Donors through Red Cross Club Second-year student and Red Cross Club co-president Jennifer Choi (right) sits down with Jaclyn Mallon, medical technologist from the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Blood Bank (center), and donor Erin Elmore, program assistant in the Faculty Affairs Office at Feinberg (left), at a recent blood drive. Only 38[…]

  • Religious Young Adults Become Obese By Middle Age

    Religious Young Adults become Obese by Middle Age Could it be the potato salad? Young adults who frequently attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to become obese by middle age then are young adults with no religious involvement, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. This is the first longitudinal study to examine the[…]

  • Male Fetuses Most Vulnerable to Alcohol

    Male Fetuses Most Vulnerable to Alcohol Exposure to alcohol in the womb doesn’t affect all fetuses equally. Why does one woman who drinks alcohol during pregnancy give birth to a child with physical, behavioral, or learning problems – known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder – while another woman who also drinks has a child without[…]

  • Human Stem Cells Transformed Into Neurons Lost In Alzheimer’s

    Human Stem Cells Transformed Into Neurons Lost In Alzheimer’s Northwestern Medicine researchers for the first time have transformed a human embryonic stem cell into a critical type of neuron that dies early in Alzheimer’s disease and is a major cause of memory loss. This new ability to reprogram stem cells and grow a limitless supply[…]

  • NUvention: Medical Innovation

    NUvention: Medical Innovation A team of NUvention: Medical Innovation students present their idea to venture capitalists and executives from large healthcare companies. A unique two-quarter course, NUvention: Medical Innovation joins graduate students from Northwestern University’s Chicago and Evanston campuses to collaborate on the creation of new medical technologies. The interdisciplinary program breaks students into seven[…]