Tag: Research
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Surgical Residents Adapting to Flexible Shift Hours
Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS, associate professor of Surgery, found growing acceptance of new flexible shift lengths in a national survey of surgical residents.
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Assessing the Accuracy of Cardiovascular Data in Electronic Health Records
Northwestern Medicine investigators identified key areas of agreement and disagreement between cardiovascular data collected from electronic health records and data gathered in a traditional cohort study.
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Genetic Risk for Lupus Tied to Ancestry
A Northwestern Medicine study analyzing the genomes of more than 27,000 individuals has uncovered that ethnic disparities in lupus diagnoses have a genetic basis.
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Scientists Discover Neural Link Between Generosity and Happiness
A new study published in Nature Communications finds that practicing generosity activates an area of the brain associated with reward and happiness.
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Investigating the Role Visual Perception Plays in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Kritika Nayar, a fourth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program, studies visual perception and its role in autism spectrum disorder in the laboratory of Molly Losh, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
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Precision Medicine for “All of Us”
Northwestern will play a key role in “All of Us,” a groundbreaking national research effort to gather data from one million or more people in order to advance precision medicine.
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New Insights Into Protein’s Role in Inflammatory Response
A protein called POP2 inhibits a key inflammatory pathway, calming the body’s inflammatory response before it can become destructive, Northwestern Medicine scientists have found.
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Reversing Fetal Alcohol Damage After Birth
Two commonly used drugs erased the learning and memory deficits caused by fetal alcohol exposure when the drugs were given after birth, according to a new study.
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How Babies’ Environments Lead to Poor Health Later
Northwestern scientists have found that nutritional, microbial and psychosocial exposures early in infant development predict DNA methylation later in life.
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New Technology to Manipulate Cells Could One Day Help Treat Parkinson’s, Arthritis, Other Diseases
A synthetic material developed at Northwestern Medicine could direct a patient’s existing cells to transform into stem cells, creating a new treatment path for stem cell therapy.
