Michelle Oliveira Fernandes and the Tourtellotte lab have been studying the way Egr3 affects a person’s ability to know where his or her limbs are in space.
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The center, led by Leena Sharma, MD, has expanded to include a strengthening program in osteoarthritis research and a focus on health care utilization, with particular emphasis on underserved minorities.
The official start to the academic year, the annual Founders’ Day Convocation includes the recitation of the Declaration of Geneva and the handing out of white coats to the incoming class.
The Class of 2017 arrived on campus and before starting classes learned about the curriculum, interviewed patients, and shadowed healthcare professionals during Arrival Week and the Introduction to the Profession Module.
A new Northwestern Medicine® study has found that high financial debt is associated with higher diastolic blood pressure and poorer self-reported general and mental health in young adults.
If you have insomnia, you can’t exercise yourself into sleep right away, according to a Northwestern Medicine® study. It takes time for the positive effects of daily activity to kick in.
Simple tests that measure the ability to recognize individuals such as Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, or Oprah Winfrey may help doctors identify early dementia in those 40 to 65 years of age, according to new Northwestern Medicine® research.
With interests in research, clinical practice, and teaching, Alpern’s career is filled with numerous leadership roles, editorial positions, and educational honors.
John Friedewald, MD, and Michael Abecassis, MD/MBA, hope to advance the findings in The New England Journal of Medicine during two clinical trials to take place at Feinberg.
This summer, the first class of medical students began their Area of Scholarly Concentration research projects, a new requirement under the revised curriculum. Three students decided to take their project overseas.
Xin “Lucy” Liu, MD, PhD, has published a paper in Pediatrics that points toward a connection between a toddler’s ability to overcome the effects of low vitamin D levels at birth with later food sensitization and allergy.
Published in Human Molecular Genetics, research from the lab of Christine DiDonato, PhD, has helped bring a potential therapy for spinal muscular atrophy into clinical trial.
Second-year medical student Crystal Doan’s interest in immigrant health disparities led her to work on a community-based research project. She provided support for heart disease interventions in the South Asian population in the Devon neighborhood of Chicago.
Northwestern Medicine’s® Mary Mulcahy, MD, and Chicago journalist Randi Belisomo have launched a new website/portal that they intend to be the premier provider of information and support for everyone involved in end-of-life decisions.
Research on the genetics of diabetes could one day help women know their risk for developing gestational diabetes before they become pregnant – and lead to preventive measures to protect the health of offspring.
Feinberg scientist Lee Lindquist, MD, has received a research award to develop a web-based planning tool that will help seniors create a blueprint for their end-of-life care.
The daylong event featured panel discussions and a poster session, as well as the announcement of the new Chang-Lee Family Professorship in Preventive Rheumatology.
Preliminary findings from a study by scientists at Feinberg and Vanderbilt University have shown no evidence of underlying coronary artery disease in some patients.
Mary McDermott, MD, professor in general internal medicine and geriatrics and preventive medicine, recently published a study in JAMA that may change clinical guidelines for patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).
To hone critical thinking and investigational skills, rising second-year students conduct research projects over the summer as part of the new curriculum. Two students share their work in basic science.
While it’s long been known that oxytocin promotes feelings of love, social bonding, and wellbeing, only recently have scientists discovered it’s link to anxiety-producing bad memories.
A graduate of Northwestern’s Honors Program in Medical Education, Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, MD ’83, MPH, became acting surgeon general of the United States on July 17.
Published in Anesthesiology, Eugene Silinsky, PhD, has found that calcium channels, and not a depletion of neurotransmitters as previously thought, are responsible for the decreased response in muscles treated by neuromuscular blockers. The finding could prove helpful in developing new therapies for a host of neuromuscular diseases.
Program will integrate training in mental healthcare for LGBT clients with rotations in an infectious disease clinic and more.
Five Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members were accepted into the 2013-14 Searle Fellows Program, a year-long faculty development program.
In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, Northwestern Medicine® scientists have successfully transplanted islets, the cells that produce insulin, from one species to another. And the islets survived without immunosuppressive drugs.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists determined that patients with coronary artery disease and regional myocardial wall thinning often have only limited scarring.
The Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports project issued reports on 33 serious adverse drug or device reactions in its first decade of existence, showing its value as an independent drug surveillance program.
Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the lab of Kathleen Green, PhD, has discovered desmoglein 1’s role in promoting the skin’s differentiation program.
New study finds that murderers who kill impulsively, often out of rage, and those who carefully carry out premeditated crimes differ markedly both psychologically and intellectually.