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New Probiotic Combats Inflammatory Bowel Disease You know the probiotics in your peach yogurt are healthful, but now it appears they may also be a powerful treatment for disease. A genetically tweaked version of a common probiotic found in yogurt and cheese appears to be an effective therapy for inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s[…]

NFL Linemen Recover from Back Surgery, and So Can You If NFL linemen can recover from back surgery and return to their spine-bruising careers, so can you get back into your “game” of horsing around with your kids or working out at the gym after back surgery. That’s the good news from a new Northwestern[…]

Cast of In Vivo 2011 Feel Side Effects in Quest to Graduation Spoofing the movie The Hangover, In Vivo 2011 “The Side Effect” follows four friends (Clockwise from bottom left) Allen (Paul Bottone, M2), Phil (Taylor Reif, M2), Stew (David Weinberg, M2), and Danni (Katelin Mirkin, M2) as they embark on their final medical school[…]

Northwestern Medicine announced that Clyde W. Yancy, MD, has been named the Magerstadt Professor and chief of the Division of Cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “It is tremendously exciting to welcome a cardiologist as accomplished and highly esteemed as Dr. Yancy,” said Douglas E. Vaughan, MD, the Irving S.[…]

Study Shows High Physical Activity Helps People with Osteoarthritis Walk Faster When a traffic light at a busy intersection flashes the WALK sign, people with knee osteoarthritis worry they can’t walk fast enough to make it across the street in time. New Northwestern Medicine research shows people with this common arthritis are more likely to[…]

Northwestern Commemorates Martin Luther King Jr. Eboo Patel, PhD, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, offered the 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote address on the Chicago campus. Patel’s speech focused on religious tolerence and the power of symbols within and between faiths to unite and separate. Northwestern University faculty, staff, students, and[…]

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day 2011 Events Interfaith Youth Core founder and executive director Eboo Patel will deliver the keynote address commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, January 17, on the Chicago Campus at noon in the Thorne Auditorium of the Arthur Rubloff Building, 375 E. Chicago Ave. This free and open-to-the-public presentation is part[…]

LIFE Ambassadors Programs Allows Prospective Studentsto Take a Look Inside Feinberg Experiences Feinberg’s Look Inside Feinberg Experiences (LIFE) Ambassadors Program uses social media to connect prospective students with current students who share similarities ranging from home region and faith to sexual orientation and race and ethnicity. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine recently launched a[…]

AMSA Sponsors Integrate Chicago Conference at Feinberg to Promote Integrative Medicine The 2011 Integrate Chicago conference planning committee included (L-R) Anila Bindal, MD, (first-year resident, University of Chicago), Vivian Leung (M2, Rush), Jennifer Young (M2, Feinberg), Lizhou Huang (M2, Feinberg), Jenny Macagnano (fourth-year Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine student, Midwestern), Elizabeth Wong (M1, Feinberg), Kevin Liu[…]

Universities Miss Chance to Identify Depressed Students One out of every four or five students who visits a university health center for a routine cold or sore throat turns out to be depressed, but most centers miss the opportunity to identify these students because they don’t screen for depression, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.[…]