A genetic pathway previously known for its role in embryonic development and cancer has been identified as a target for systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, therapy. The finding, discovered by medical school researchers, was recently published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
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One of 30 New England Journal of Medicine Gold Scholar essay winners, Feinberg student Rahul Ganatra will attend a special symposium on June 22 in Boston.
The number of American children leaving doctors’ offices with an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis has risen 66 percent in 10 years, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
As part Match Day on Friday, March 16, the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Class of 2012 discovered where their residencies would be.
The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society inducted its newest Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine members at a ceremony on Thursday, March 15.
Victor Roy, a second-year medical student and member of the Honors Program in Medical Education, received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has moved up one spot to No. 18 in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report rankings of top research-oriented medical schools in the country.
Serdar Bulun, MD, chief of reproductive biology research, has been named the new chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and obstetrician-gynecologist-in-chief at Northwestern Memorial’s Prentice Women’s Hospital.
Members of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Class of 2015, presented Fusion 2012, a multicultural show of dance, song, fashion, and more.
Northwestern University scientists have developed a powerful analytical method that directs stem cell differentiation. Researchers can use the method, called nanocombinatorics, to build enormous libraries of physical structures varying in size. Details of the method and proof of concept is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Harlan Selesnick, MD, GME ’80, has been the team physician for the Miami Heat since the franchise began playing basketball in 1988. He’s also become an accomplished orthopaedic surgeon in that time.
New ongoing research suggests organ transplant recipients may not require anti-rejection medication in the future thanks to the power of stem cells, which may prove to be able to be manipulated in mismatched kidney donor and recipient pairs to allow for successful transplantation without immunosuppressive drugs.
James C. Russ, CO, professor emeritus of orthotics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, died on Feb. 25 at the age of 77 of a heart attack in his home in Glenview, Illinois.
Shoai Hattori and Jessica Wilson,both PhD candidates, created the Brain Fair at Nettelhorst Elementary School in an effort to educate and inspire the next generation of scientists.
Feinberg’s Icebergs, part of the student group Nclude, participated in Chicago’s 12th Annual Polar Plunge to raise money for Special Olympics.
A new study finds maintaining a healthy lifestyle from young adulthood into your 40s is strongly associated with low cardiovascular disease risk in middle age.
Every fall, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine welcomes approximately 170 students to its Doctor of Medicine program. The MD curriculum centers on competency-based education and progressive skill development.
Research to Prevent Blindness awarded a grant to the Department of Ophthalmology to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
Marc Weissbluth, MD, professor of clinical pediatrics, made the list of 100 most powerful Chicagoans, as picked by Chicago magazine.
C. Shad Thaxton will be the featured speaker at a nanotechnology town hall meeting on Wednesday, February 29, on the University’s Evanston campus.
In recognition of Health Disparities Week, the student-led Health Disparities Task Force ran a program for medical students and faculty offering a week of lunchtime speakers focused on health equity issues.
Christian Stehlik, PhD, professor of Rheumatology at Feinberg, discovered a protein in macrophage cells that identifies bacterial cell wall components in harmful bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes.
Thanks to the quick thinking of a Northwestern Medicine pediatrician, 14,000 silver mylar blankets are headed to Afghanistan to help children in danger of freezing to death.
The mentoring program, Saturday Oncofertility Academy, offers primarily African American and Latina girls from disadvantaged backgrounds the chance to research and conduct experiments in fertility and cancer research with scientists and doctors at state-of-the-art Northwestern facilities.
Alzheimer’s drug may act like bad electrician, messing up wiring in brain and nervous system.
Northwestern Medicine looks at the complications and medical consequences of body piercings. The paper also offers suggestions to minimize complications.
Two years ago, Rahul Khare, MD, joined more than 100 Northwestern Medicine volunteers in offering emergency medical care to victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. This month, he returned to offer his expertise and knowledge to doctors in Cap Haitien.
One man will embark on a mission equivalent to climbing Willis Tower, jogging to the Hancock Building, walking to the top, and then running the 24 miles roundtrip to Northwestern’s Evanston campus … all to support research for primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that has stricken his grandfather.
The first longitudinal study to look at suicide ideation and self-harm in the LGBT population shows support from friends and family offers the most protection.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is honoring the memory of Christopher Getch, MD, who passed away unexpectedly on January 9.