Tag: Patient Care
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Schweitzer Fellow Aims to Increase Health Literacy
In her last year of residency, Jill Huded, MD, created new educational handouts for CommunityHealth, a free clinic in Chicago, to increase health literacy in an underserved population. Her project was funded by a Schweitzer fellowship.
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Study Finds Computer Use Affects Patient Visits
Published online in the journal Medical Informatics, the research found that doctors who use electronic health records in the exam room spend about a third of their visits looking at a computer screen, missing out on nonverbal cues from patients.
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Iron May be at Heart of Cancer Drug’s Cardiotoxicity Effect
Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, has discovered that doxorubicin, an effective and commonly used anticancer drug, is causing an accumulation of iron inside of a cell’s mitochondria, resulting in heart damage.
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Heart Attack Damage Slashed with Microparticle Therapy
After a heart attack, much of the damage to the heart muscle is caused by inflammatory cells that rush to the scene of the oxygen-starved tissue. But the damage is slashed in half when microparticles are injected into the blood stream within 24 hours of the attack, according to preclinical research.
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Enhanced Prognoses Could Help Lymphoma Patients
Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new prognostic tool for clinicians treating patients with large B-cell lymphoma. The predictive scale enhances the widely used International Prognostic Index.
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New Northwestern Memorial Hospital President Named
Richard J. Gannotta, DHA, FACHE, will work closely with the leadership of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to advance Northwestern Medicine.
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Platanias Named Interim Director of Lurie Cancer Center
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University has named Deputy Director Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine-Hematology/Oncology, interim director, effective immediately.
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New Guidelines for Predicting Cardiovascular Disease
The guidelines – released from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association – will help doctors better identify which patients may benefit from lifestyle changes, drug therapy, or both to help prevent future cardiovascular disease-related events.
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Scientists Develop More Accurate Physical Activity Tracking App
A new algorithm developed by an interdisciplinary team at Northwestern can be used with a physical activity app to predict the location of a phone no matter where an individual carries it.
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Hanauer to Join Gastroenterology and Hepatology
A distinguished physician-scientist and international leader in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, Stephen B. Hanauer, MD, will join the medical school on January 1, 2014, as the Clifford Joseph Barborka Professor of Medicine and the medical director of the Digestive Disease Center.
