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High Rate of Patients Readmitted to Hospital Dr. Mark Williams When a patient is discharged from the hospital, just about the last thing he or she wants is to be back in again within the next month. But a new national study has found that’s exactly what happens to one out of five Medicare patients,[…]

Sesquicentennial Banner Is Out of This World The Feinberg School of Medicine’s sesquicentennial banner Certainly the founding fathers of the Feinberg School of Medicine never dreamed that its 150th anniversary would be celebrated in outer space. With the purple and white sesquicentennial banner tucked away in his official flight kit, Feinberg School alum Michael Barratt,[…]

Sesquicentennial Banner Is Out of This World The Feinberg School of Medicine’s sesquicentennial banner Certainly the founding fathers of the Feinberg School of Medicine never dreamed that its 150th anniversary would be celebrated in outer space. With the purple and white sesquicentennial banner tucked away in his official flight kit, Feinberg School alum Michael Barratt,[…]

Patients’ Stem Cells Could Treat Their Heart Disease Dr. Douglas Losordo Preliminary data presented on March 28 as a late-breaking abstract at the American College of Cardiology’s 58th annual scientific session from the largest CD34+ adult stem cell study for heart disease has shown the first evidence that delivering a potent form of autologous (from[…]

PAD Study Challenges Traditional Thinking Dr. Mary McDermott A recent study by a Feinberg School researcher challenges traditional thinking about what should be considered a normal score for an ankle-brachial index (ABI), a simple test used to diagnose peripheral artery disease. Furthermore the data suggest that even those with a borderline or low normal ABI[…]

Astronaut/Alum Carries University Banner in Space Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, Expedition 19 commander (center), NASA astronaut Michael Barratt (left), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata Astronaut Michael Barratt, who earned his MD from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, blasted off to the International Space Station today (March 26) with a white and purple[…]

NU Trustee Ann Lurie Honored With Humanitarian Award Ann Lurie Northwestern University trustee and philanthropist Ann Lurie has received the 2009 Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. The award was presented on March 24 at an awards ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton,[…]

New Dual-Degree Program Offered Dr. Julius Dewald The Northwestern University Graduate School now offers a combined DPT (Doctor in Physical Therapy)/PhD program supported by a new interdisciplinary training grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM). Julius P.A. Dewald, PT, PhD, professor and chair of[…]

Goodbye Needle, Hello Smoothie!New generation oral vaccine uses dairy probiotics to protect against disease The dendritic cell (green) engulfs the lactobacilli (small blue dots), which release the vaccine. The dendritic cells will induce the proliferation and the activation of T and B cells, which will eliminate the infected cells. Instead of a dreaded injection with[…]

Dr. Cella Named Chair of New Department of Medical Social Sciences Dr. David Cella A top researcher on how to measure outcomes among cancer patients and the quality of life for patients in medical clinical trials has been named chair of a newly created Department of Medical Social Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine.[…]