Tag: Education
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Mentor Program Launches Girls into College for Science and Medical Careers
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.
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Khare Returns to Haiti to Teach Emergency Medicine
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.
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Northwestern Receives $10 Million Gift for Life Sciences Graduates
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has received a $10 million gift from the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Foundation to endow and name the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences. The gift will support graduate student training in the life sciences at Feinberg with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis[…]
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Neuromuscular Warm-Up Reduces Girls’ Sports Injuries
Neuromuscular Warm-Up Reduces Girls’ Sports Injuries Today’s athletic high school girls “got game” on the basketball court and soccer field, but they are at a greater risk for sports-related knee injuries than their male counterparts. In a new study from Northwestern Medicine, focused on predominantly low-income, urban female athletes in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), researchers[…]
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New Center Aims to Reduce Health Disparities for Latinos and African Americans
New Center Aims to Reduce Health Disparities for Latinos and African Americans The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has received a three-year $4.3 million dollar federal grant to establish a Research Center of Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services. The center is one of three nationally established by the United States Department of Health and[…]
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Protein Acts as Miracle-Gro for Neurons, Slows Brain Disease
Protein Acts as Miracle-Gro for Neurons, Slows Brain Disease A protein that promotes the growth of neurons and blood vessels appears to stop the progression of a genetic disease that causes degeneration of the cerebellum, according to new preclinical Northwestern Medicine research published in Nature Medicine. The disease, spinocerebella ataxia type 1, typically strikes people[…]
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Lower-Income Dads Active in their Kids’ Health
Lower-Income Dads Active in their Kids’ Health Lower-income, urban dads are involved in their children’s health and encourage them to exercise and eat healthy foods, reports a new study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. But these same dads may also give their kids the wrong dose of medicine and may be uncomfortable handling[…]
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Peanut Allergy Turned Off by Tricking Immune System
Peanut Allergy Turned Off by Tricking Immune System Researchers have turned off a life-threatening allergic response to peanuts by tricking the immune system into thinking the nut proteins aren’t a threat to the body, according to a new preclinical study from Northwestern Medicine. The peanut tolerance was achieved by attaching peanut proteins onto blood cells[…]
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Northwestern Postdoctoral Fellow’s Work Becomes Cover Story
Northwestern Postdoctoral Fellow’s Work Becomes Cover Story Dr. Xin Liu (center) works closely with his fellowship advisers, Drs. James Carr (left) and Debiao Li, investigating clinical applications of cardiovascular MR imaging techniques. When graduate student Xin Liu, MD, PhD, submitted a manuscript detailing the benefits of the targeted use of magnetic resonance (MR) angiography in[…]
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Study Finds Many Patients Don’t Understand Their Prescription Medicine Labels
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[…]
