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Loneliness Rewires the Brain to Drive Alcohol Consumption, Mouse Study Finds
Loneliness can reprogram the brain in ways that push alcohol consumption, reports a new preclinical study led by Northwestern University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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Enzyme Utilizes Specialized Mechanisms to Promote Cancer Cell Proliferation
A new Northwestern Medicine study has identified a previously unknown mechanism by which the NAT10 enzyme promotes cancer cell proliferation, establishing this protein as a promising therapeutic target for cancer.
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Study Finds Long-Term Benefits of Stroke Thrombectomy
A one-year follow-up analysis of a landmark clinical trial suggests that patients with severe strokes experienced better long-term outcomes after undergoing endovascular thrombectomy compared with medical management alone.
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Designing Supramolecular Therapies to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier
A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered key molecular design principles that could help supramolecular therapeutics cross the blood-brain barrier, a major challenge for the novel approach to treating neurological disorders.
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Novel Stem Cell Platform Improves Study of Endometriosis
Scientists led by Julie Kim, PhD, have developed a novel stem cell platform that provides a new way to study the biology of endometriosis in humans more accurately than current model systems, as detailed in a recent study published in Science Advances.
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Empowering Health Professions Education in Africa
Through a longstanding collaboration with the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda, Feinberg medical educators support and train educators who will go on to teach thousands of future physicians, nurses and other health professionals.
Media Coverage
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Forbes
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A Silicon Valley Startup Aims To Fill A Battery Supply Chain Gap
Chad Mirkin, director of Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology, on using AI to create a “megalibrary” of advanced materials: “For the last decade, we’ve been developing tools that allow you to synthesize materials faster than has ever been contemplated before. And I mean everything, everything in the periodic table.”
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WGN
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Dr. Santina Wheat on the Experimental Melanoma Vaccine
Dr. Santina Wheat, Program Director, McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, joins Wendy Snyder for this week’s health update. They discuss the experimental melanoma vaccine and its effects, and take listener questions.
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US News & World Report
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GLP-1s and Reproductive Health: What to Know About “Ozempic Babies,” Fertility and Birth Control
For patients taking tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) who rely on oral contraceptives, the Food and Drug Administration recommends switching to a nonoral birth control method or using a backup barrier method like condoms. “The backup method should be used for the first four weeks of tirzepatide use and then for the four weeks after any dose…
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TIME
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What Ovaries Reveal About the Secret Ways Women Age
“Pretty much every organ system you can think of is touched by the ovaries,” says Francesca Duncan, a reproductive biologist at Northwestern University and Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Duncan is among a handful of pioneering scientists who have uncovered just how important the ovaries are to health, and who are now using that…
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Fox News
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Cancer Vaccine Prevents Deadly Melanoma From Returning or Spreading in Landmark Trial
An experimental skin cancer vaccine significantly reduced the risk of melanoma returning or spreading in a late-stage clinical trial from Merck and Moderna. Dr. Murad Alam, vice chair of dermatology at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, noted that not all melanomas are the same. “They’re slightly different in every patient, which is why traditional chemotherapies often…
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WGN
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Dr. Sterling Elliott: Does Grapefruit Interfere with Medications?
Dr. Sterling Elliott, clinical pharmacist at Northwestern Medicine and assistant professor of orthopedics at Feinberg School of Medicine, joins Lisa Dent to discuss whether grapefruit interferes with prescription medications and other pharmaceutical questions from listeners.
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