Tag: Education

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.…

Visit the Access to Essential Medicines EXPO Millions of people die each year from diseases for which medicines are too expensive, no longer effective, or out of production. Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is one of 22 cities that the Access to Essential Medicines EXPO will visit this year to highlight this dearth of…

Entering Medical Students Don White Coats This year’s entering medical students have arrived from both coasts and everywhere in-between and beyond. The Class of 2006 was officially welcomed to Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine at the Founders’ Day Convocation on August 30. The annual event marked the 144th opening of the medical school academic…

December 3, 2001 Research Study Looks for Answers to Treating Teen-Age Depression CHICAGO— Teenagers are notorious for being moody or having “the blues.” Research has shown that half of all teenagers experience depression, and at least 5 percent suffer from major depression that interferes with home, school and social life and may lead to suicidal…

December 3, 2001 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or at tlk@northwestern.edu   Smoking Increases Likelihood of Impotency CHICAGO— Men who smoke are more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than nonsmokers, reports an international group of impotency experts in the November issue of the Journal of Urology. Erectile dysfunction is the inability…