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Diabetes Discovery Could Lead to Big Difference in Lives of Moms and Offspring
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.
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Health Crisis Planning Tool Will Help Seniors Stay in Homes
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.
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Preventive Rheumatology Symposium Creates Buzz Around Emerging Field
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.
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Lifestyle Only Partially Responsible for Heart Attack in Some Young Adults
Preliminary findings from a study by scientists at Feinberg and Vanderbilt University have shown no evidence of underlying coronary artery disease in some patients.
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Walking at Home Improves Speed, Endurance for PAD 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).
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Students Explore Biomedical Research as Part of New Curriculum
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.
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Study Finds Oxytocin Strengthens Memories of Both Bad and Good Events
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.
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Lushniak Named Acting Surgeon General
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.
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Mechanism Behind Monitoring of Neuromuscular Blockers Discovered
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.
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New Psychology Internship Track is Nation’s First to Focus on LGBT Health
Program will integrate training in mental healthcare for LGBT clients with rotations in an infectious disease clinic and more.
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Faculty Receive Searle Teaching Fellowships
Five Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members were accepted into the 2013-14 Searle Fellows Program, a year-long faculty development program.
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Interspecies Transplant Works in First Step for New Diabetes Therapy
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.
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Thinning of Heart Muscle Wall Potentially Reversible
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.
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Project Continues to Bring to Light Unreported Drug Reactions
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.
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Scientists Reveal Protein’s Role as More Than Adhesion Molecule in Skin Development
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.
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Research into the Minds of Murderers May Lead to Better Prevention Methods
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.
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Woodruff Becomes President, Molitch Given Educator Award at ENDO 2013
Amidst the presentations and poster sessions, faculty from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine were honored with a pair of major recognitions at the Endocrine Society’s 95th annual meeting.
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New Public Policy Leads to Improved Stroke Care in Chicago
More suspected stroke victims received emergency care and potentially life-saving treatments in Chicago’s stroke centers thanks to a 2011 policy change under the Illinois Primary Stroke Center Act.
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Annual Conference Explores Science of Team Science
The annual International Science of Team Science Conference brought investigators from Asia, Europe, and North America together to learn how best to engage in the application of Team Science.
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Center for Education in Health Sciences Honors Graduates at Convocation
Graduates of the sixth class of the Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety program and the third class of the Master of Science in Health Services and Outcomes Research program were recognized at the Center for Education in Health Sciences 2013 Convocation on June 29.
