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July 23, 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 Low Literacy Equals Early Death Sentence Northwestern Study Reveals Startling 50 Percent Higher Mortality CHICAGO—Not being able to read doesn’t just make it harder to navigate each day. Low literacy impairs people’s ability to[…]

Legal Landscape Affects Practice of Medicine Feinberg School faculty member Katie Watson, JD, discusses recent U.S. Supreme Court cases of special interest to physicians. Katherine (Katie) L. Watson, JD, lecturer in the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, says the legal landscape affecting the practice of medicine is changing[…]

Feinberg School Annual Report Now Online The latest annual report for Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, 50 Questions, 50 Answers, is now available online. The print version of the report came with a note from Dean Lewis Landsberg, MD, explaining that the cream-colored box contained neither coasters nor playing cards but rather the school’s[…]

A Harrowing Journey to Medical School Emmanuel Bessay, PhD, typifies—and then some—the nontraditional Northwestern medical student. Like the 30 other members of the Class of 2010 who didn’t go directly from their undergraduate alma maters to the Feinberg School of Medicine, this 36-year-old West African native took a different and somewhat harrowing route to medical[…]

Former Dermatology Chair Samuel Bluefarb Dies Samuel M. Bluefarb, MD, professor emeritus of dermatology, died at his home in Kilua-Kona, Hawaii, on June 7. He was 94. He was chair of Northwestern’s Department of Dermatology from 1962–77 and the first Walter J. Hamlin Professor of Dermatology. The Chicago Dermatology Society’s Annual Bluefarb Lecture is named[…]

June 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 Old Memory Traces in Brain May Trigger Chronic Pain, as Newly Identified Drug Relieves Suffering CHICAGO—Why do so many people continue to suffer from life-altering, chronic pain long after their injuries have actually healed?[…]

June 1, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Researchers Find Deadly Effects of Prescription Drugs Six Years before FDA and Drug Firms CHICAGO—Northwestern University’s Charles L. Bennett, MD, PhD, is a super sleuth of potentially deadly prescription drug reactions. He leads a national SWAT team of physicians called RADAR (Research on Adverse[…]

Celebrating a Quarter Century of Service An event is considered successful when the attendees won’t stop talking with each other long enough to walk next door into an elegant room offering a meal fit for royalty. That’s exactly what happened at the reception held June 4 at the Wyndham Chicago Hotel for faculty members who[…]

School Welcomes William Muller as Pathology Chair William A. Muller, MD, PhD, has been appointed professor and chair of the Department of Pathology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, effective July 1. He succeeds Janardan K. Reddy, MD, who has served in that post for the past 14 years and and will remain on the[…]