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November 11, 2002 Northwestern Receives $5 Million to Study Polycystic Ovary Syndrome CHICAGO— Northwestern University has been awarded more than $5 million by the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health to establish a Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) to study polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a disorder associated with irregular menstrual periods,[…]

November 4, 2002 Aging Doesn’t Affect Language Processing CHICAGO— Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of the brain show that despite the decrease in brain activity that naturally occurs in aging, particularly in the language areas of the left frontal lobe, some types of language processing may be performed more efficiently in older individuals. Results[…]

November 4, 2002 Dr. Bertozzi to Speak at Drug Discovery Symposium CHICAGO— Award-winning scientist Carolyn R. Bertozzi, PhD, of the University of California at Berkeley will be the keynote speaker for the seventh annual Northwestern University Drug Discovery Program Symposium from 4–5 p.m. Wednesday, November 13, in the Ward Building of The Feinberg School of[…]

November 4, 2002 HHS Official to Give Feinberg Lecture CHICAGO— Eve E. Slater, MD, assistant secretary of health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be the speaker at the eighth annual Frances Feinberg Memorial Lecture at Northwestern University at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 21, in the third floor conference center of[…]

November 4, 2002 Program Helps Hepatitis C Patients BOSTON— A new cognitive behavioral therapy strategy developed by Schering-Plough improves compliance among patients with hepatitis C (HCV) who are receiving the pegylated interferon-based combination therapy Peg-Intron® and Rebetol® (ribavirin), according to a Northwestern University study. Steven L. Flamm, MD, associate professor of medicine and of surgery[…]

In Memoriam (Jane Eckenhoff, Paul Lazar, Susan Orden) Jane Mackey Eckenhoff, who served as secretary of the Alumni Office at Northwestern’s medical school from 1970–84, died October 12 at home in LaPorte, Indiana, of lung cancer. She was 72. Raised in South Bend, Indiana, Jane Mackey came to Chicago in the late 1950s and worked[…]

October 28, 2002 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or at tlk@northwestern.edu   Culture Bus Serves Alzheimer’s Patients CHICAGO— A unique new program developed by the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University and the Council for Jewish Elderly enables persons with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease to participate in innovative activities involving[…]

October 25, 2002 Northwestern Launches Gene Banking Project CHICAGO— The Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University has launched a major gene banking project that will use information from the human genome sequence to unravel the genetic cause of many diseases and eventually help scientists develop new tests, determine which patients will respond best to[…]

October 25, 2002 Smoking May Make Lymphoma More Lethal CHICAGO— A Northwestern University investigator has hypothesized that smoking may play a dual role in the development of a cancer of the lymph glands called follicular lymphoma, first causing it to develop and then transforming it into diffuse large cell lymphoma, an aggressive cancer generally associated[…]

Medical Students to Present Summer Research Results All members of the Northwestern community are invited to the Feinberg School’s annual Medical Student Research Day on Thursday, October 31. Medical students will present posters from their summer research projects. These hands-on research experiences provide students with a taste of what it would be like to conduct[…]

October 14, 2002 Eldercare Organizations Receive Boost from Program CHICAGO— The Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern University has launched a program to assist in building the research capacity of community-based organizations that serve and care for the elderly. The program, called ASSERT (Aging Services Support for Evaluation and Research Training), is funded by a[…]

Art in the Atrium Highlights School Talent Works by the Feinberg School’s faculty, staff, and students, as well as staff members of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, will be featured October 15–17 during the 11th Annual Art in the Atrium, sponsored by the school’s Staff Relations Committee. Held in the Method Atrium, 300 East Superior[…]

Hollister Lecture to Focus on How Fight on Bioterrorism May Affect Individual Rights The 9/11 attacks and Anthrax scares that followed changed the world in every way including U.S. lawmakers’ and public health officials’ responses to bioterrorism. Furthering the dialog on how steps to fight bioterrorism may affect individuals and society as a whole, the[…]

October 1, 2002 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or at fellman@northwestern.edu Key Discovery in Neurodegenerative Diseases EVANSTON, ILL.— Northwestern University scientists have made a key molecular discovery that has implications for a wide range of diseases characterized by the loss of nerve function, including Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s diseases, cystic fibrosis, and[…]

October 1, 2002 New Protease Inhibitor Suppresses HIV Levels SAN DIEGO— A study from The Feinberg School of Medicine has shown that the protease inhibitor lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra®) suppressed HIV to undetectable levels and was well tolerated through four years of treatment in patients who had not previously received antiretroviral therapy. To date in the Kaletra®[…]

September 30, 2002 Albrecht-Buehler Elected to European Academy CHICAGO— Guenter Albrecht-Buehler, Robert Laughlin Rea Professor of Anatomy and professor of cell and molecular biology at The Feinberg School of Medicine, has been elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. Dr. Albrecht-Buehler was elected to the academy based on his “outstanding and lasting contribution[…]

Northwestern Remembers Harold Visotsky Friends, colleagues, and family members gathered September 25 in Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Pritzker Auditorium to pay tribute to Harold M. Visotsky, MD, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern’s medical school for 25 years. Dr. Visotsky, who died June 16 at age 78, also served as director[…]

September 18, 2002 Nocturnal Blood Pressure May Have Kidney Disease Link CHICAGO— Monitoring nighttime blood pressure is a simple, painless and noninvasive method of identifying patients with Type 1 diabetes who are at increased risk for kidney disease, according to a study published in the Sept. 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine[…]

September 9, 2002 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or at fellman@northwestern.edu “Fingerprints” for Biological Agents EVANSTON, ILL.— Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a powerful new method for detecting infectious diseases, including those associated with many bioterrorism and warfare threats such as anthrax, tularemia, smallpox, and HIV. A research team led by Chad A.[…]