Tag: Awards

November 29, 2006 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or at marla-paul@northwestern.edu Study Finds Many Patients Don’t Understand Their Prescription Medicine Labels CHICAGO—When Michael Wolf, PhD, paged though dusty, yellowing pharmacists’ logs from the 1890s at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, he found the following entry about a druggist’s encounter with a confused…

Alum Thomas Starzl to Receive National Medal of Science Feinberg School alumnus and internationally renown transplant surgeon Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, will receive the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony February 13. The nation’s highest scientific honor, the National Medal of Science is bestowed annually by the President of the United…