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Mapping the Health of Chicago’s Communities
First-year medical students analyzed the health assets of Chicago’s neighborhoods by visiting the community and listening to residents and community representatives and presented their findings at a poster session.
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Considering Whole Genome Sequencing for Newborns
In a recent Northwestern Medicine exploratory study, genetics experts considered incorporating whole genome sequencing into traditional newborn screening, revealing varying opinions about handling the future of genomics.
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Zinc Fireworks When Egg Meets Sperm
Sparks literally fly when a sperm and an egg hit it off. The fertilized mammalian egg releases from its surface billions of zinc atoms in “zinc sparks,” one wave after another, a Northwestern University-led interdisciplinary research team has found.
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Mechanisms of Rare Disorder May Shed Light on Parkinson’s Disease
A Northwestern Medicine study shows that lysosome dysfunction caused by a genetic mutation in patients with a rare Parkinson’s-like disorder leads to neurodegeneration, a finding that may link to common forms of the disease.
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Making Connections at the Fourth Annual Les Turner ALS Symposium
National and local ALS researchers, experts, doctors and patients gathered at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Fourth Annual Les Turner Symposium on ALS and NeuroRepair on Thursday, Dec. 11.
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Resident Wins Scholarship for Commitment to Underserved Populations in Chicago
Luis Rivera, MD, a first-year resident in Family and Community Medicine, was recently awarded a $25,000 scholarship by the National Medical Fellowship for his work and commitment to underserved populations of Chicago.
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Studying the Structural Causes and Consequences of Whiplash
Northwestern Medicine scientists have received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the biological reasons that a quarter of all people with whiplash injury from motor vehicle collisions fail to fully recover in the long-term.
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Four Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows
Four Feinberg faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
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Restricting Surgical Residents’ Hours Doesn’t Improve Outcomes
A study of U.S. hospitals revealed that 2011 restrictions on resident duty hours did not improve surgery patients’ outcomes, one of the first national evaluations of the results of the restrictions.
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Student Societies Connect Medical Students with Alumni
Feinberg’s student societies, a network of students across all four years of medical school, are hosting a series of Q and A conversations with alumni as part of a new program called “Real Physicians of Feinberg.”
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Tackling Gender and Sex Issues in Medical Education
Feinberg faculty members helped create new guidelines from the Association of American Medical Colleges for medical schools and academic medical centers to improve health care for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or who are born with differences of sex development.
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Evaluating Testosterone Replacement in Men With HIV
A new Northwestern Medicine study found that testosterone replacement in the United States is more than twice as common among HIV-infected men than the general population.
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Physician Assistant Students Explore Day of the Dead Traditions
First-year physician assistant students visited Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood to learn about Mexican culture and Day of the Dead traditions.
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Disentangling the Dopaminergic System
Northwestern Medicine scientists have found several molecularly distinct subtypes of dopamine neurons – important nerve cells associated with many diverse behaviors and diseases.
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Longer Surgery Means Higher Blood Clot Risk
Recent Northwestern Medicine research shows that longer surgeries are associated with a higher risk of dangerous blood clots, a consistent trend across all procedures.
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Alzheimer’s “Buddies” Share their Experience
Jared Worthington, second-year medical student, Jean Schmidt Winship, program manager in the Physician Assistant Program and her husband presented on The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Buddy Program at the Canadian Health Summit in Toronto.
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Lectures on Campus: Biomaterials, Dance and the Exposome
At three recent lectures, investigators shared research on 3-D printable biomaterials, a Latin dance program for older Latinos and the environmental causes of disease.
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Exploring How Arsenic Combats Leukemia
A Northwestern Medicine study unearthed the mechanisms behind arsenic’s anti-cancer effects to show how the chemical compound could combat multiple types of leukemia.
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At AMSA Conference, Students Prepare to Lead a Changing Healthcare Culture
Medical students attended the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Training Ground conference, hosted at Feinberg on November 22 and 23, with events united under the theme of “Lead the Change in the Culture of Medicine.”
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Honoring Jeremiah Stamler
Feinberg celebrated the accomplishments of public health pioneer, and founding chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Jeremiah Stamler, MD at a recent event in his honor.
