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Lurie Cancer Center Receives NCI Grant
December 4, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Lurie Cancer Center Receives Highest Rating and $25.6 Million Grant CHICAGO—The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University has been awarded a $25.6 million five-year renewal of its Cancer Center Support Grant by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). With this grant, the[…]
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Making National News
Faculty members at the Feinberg School of Medicine frequently are quoted or featured in national and international news stories.
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Subliminal Smells Bias Perception About a Person’s Likeability
December 11, 2007 Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel at 847/491-4892 or atp-tremmel@northwestern.edu Subliminal Smells Bias Perception About a Person’s Likeability EVANSTON, Ill.—Anyone who has bonded with a puppy madly sniffing with affection gets an idea of how scents, most not apparent to humans, are critical to a dog’s appreciation of her two-legged friends. Now new research[…]
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Caregivers Urged to Take Care of Themselves
Caregivers Urged to Take Care of Themselves Professional caregivers don’t have any special immunity to the stress of caring for seriously ill and dying individuals. While the satisfaction of helping patients and their families draws people to the health care field, physicians, nurses, and other highly skilled caregivers can also face compassion fatigue and burnout,[…]
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Aspiring Physicians and Scientists Find CURE
November 9, 2007Aspiring Physicians and Scientists Find CURE “What did you do this summer?” is a question typically asked of students returning to school. Louisiana State University junior Dara Davenport’s response might make her peers a bit envious. Davenport, who aspires to be a pediatrician, might say, “Oh, I lived with a friend in Chicago’s[…]
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Breaking a Sweat Helps Control Weight Gain Over 20 Years
November 4, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Breaking a Sweat Helps Control Weight Gain Over 20 Years CHICAGO—Don’t slack off on exercise if you want to avoid packing on the pounds as you age. A consistently high level of physical activity[…]
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Why You Remember Names and Ski Slopes: Researchers Discover Personal Trainer for Your Memory
November 21, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Why You Remember Names and Ski Slopes: Researchers Discover Personal Trainer for Your Memory CHICAGO—When you meet your boss’s husband, Harvey, at the office holiday party, then bump into him an hour later over[…]
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Making National News
Faculty members at the Feinberg School of Medicine frequently are quoted or featured in national and international news stories.
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Northwestern Exposing Most Deadly Infectious Diseases in 3-D
November 1, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Northwestern Exposing Most Deadly Infectious Diseases in 3-D $31 Million Federal Project Aims to Spur Wave of New Drug Discoveries CHICAGO—A scientist slides on a pair of plastic 3-D glasses and an unearthly blue[…]
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Women Aren’t Men
November 19, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Women Aren’t Men: New Institute Spurs Needed Research On Women’s Bodies and Different Medical Needs CHICAGO—Women’s bodies and medical needs are vastly different than men’s way beyond their reproductive systems. Women wake sooner from[…]
