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April 2, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Disabled People Hit Huge Roadblocks in Routine Health Care CHICAGO—Rachel steered her wheelchair into a Chicago-area medical center for a series of upper gastrointestinal tract tests. But when Rachel, who has cerebral palsy, entered the radiology lab, the technician told her she had to[…]

Silent Auction Proceeds Benefit Student Groups Among the 100 medical students helping to make the 2007 Silent Auction Fundraiser a success are (from left) Martin Pham, Arjun Venkatesh, Meghan O’Halloran, and Nafis Ahmed. On April 12 approximately 300 members of the Feinberg School community enjoyed hors d’oeuvres, live classical music, and elegant Indian Garba dancing[…]

Trying to Bring Evidence-Based Practice to Behavioral Medicine How do behavioral scientists and practitioners incorporate the latest evidence-based interventions in their field into clinical practice and share them with other disciplines? Not easily, according to Bonnie J. Spring, PhD, professor of preventive medicine. Unlike the infrastructure that has evolved in evidence-based medicine to promote the[…]

April 12, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Stem Cell Transplant Resets Immune System in Type 1 Diabetes Patients CHICAGO—A Northwestern University researcher has used adult stem cell injections to reset the immune systems of patients with early-onset Type 1 diabetes. After the therapy, patients were free of taking insulin for up[…]

Northwestern Medical Students Among Those Aiding the Homeless Medical students from three schools joined forces to provide health care to the homeless at a shelter on Chicago’s West Side. The homeless generally have two daily priorities: food and shelter. On March 3 students from three regional medical schools including Northwestern made sure that health care[…]

Match Day Reveals Residency Choices Dressed for the role, including “doc” tattoos, these FeinbergSchool seniors are ready to start their residencies inorthopaedic surgery. This year, 160 Feinberg School students joined more than 15,000 medical students nationwide vying for first-year residency positions in the United States offered through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). “I’m going[…]

March 13, 2007 Contact: Wendy Leopold at 847/491-4890 or atw-leopold@northwestern.edu Research Finds Musical Training Can ‘Tune’ the Auditory System EVANSTON, Ill.—A new study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons—even after it was clear that a professional music career was not in your future. The[…]

Alum Addresses Health Disparities Among Native Americans Patrick O’Connor, MD, ’82, likened the Indian reservation on which he has worked for more than 20 years to a Third World country in terms of health disparities but one that is being treated medically with first-world resources thanks to the U.S. Public Health Service. His lecture to[…]

March 12, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu $15M Grant Will Fund Study of Pacemaker/Beta Blocker Effect on Heart Patients CHICAGO—An estimated 100,000 patients who have heart attacks each year are not eligible for life-saving beta-blocker drug therapy because their heart rates are too low. Beta-blockers improve survival rates up to 30[…]