Aarati Didwania, MD, ’04 MSCI, associate professor of Medicine, has been named director of the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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A new grant from the National Cancer Institute will help three Chicago universities work together with many of the city’s underserved communities to foster impactful cancer research, education, training and outreach.
Medical students gathered to share their Area of Scholarly Concentration research projects with faculty and peers at a recent poster session.
The impossible is possible when cancer survivors are monitored by medical professionals who know their specialized needs.
The majority of children who survive cancer in the U.S. face chronic health problems related to their treatment, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Northwestern Medicine scientists have created and transplanted an artificial ovarian system that induced puberty in mouse models, a first step toward a new approach to improving fertility in childhood cancer survivors.
Carol A. Rosenberg, ’80 MD, has more than three decades’ experience as an internist, clinical researcher and medical educator, but it was an unexpected medical crisis within her own family that profoundly changed the course of her career.
Young adult cancer survivors reported poorer physical and emotional health but better social health in a study by Northwestern Medicine scientists.
Fourteen women donated hair at the second annual Cuts for Cancer event hosted by the American Medical Women’s Association on May 24. Donations were sent to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program, which supplies free wigs to women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment.
Scars left behind by childhood cancer treatments are more than skin-deep. The increased risk of disfigurement and persistent hair loss caused by childhood cancer and treatment are associated with emotional distress and reduced quality of life in adulthood, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.