A new Northwestern Medicine study provides evidence suggesting that high systolic blood pressure in younger adults increases their future cardiovascular disease risk.
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One new center and two new graduate medical school programs will expand opportunities in public health, global health and neurological surgery.
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that scar-forming cells in scleroderma come from fat tissue within layers of the skin, a new cellular origin that could be a key to developing treatments for the incurable disease.
A study from Northwestern Medicine and the American College of Surgeons suggests that penalizing hospitals for patient readmissions following surgery may be ineffective, and even counterproductive for improving the quality of hospital care in the United States.
Claude Steele, PhD, author of One Book One Northwestern selection “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do,” spoke to students about navigating stereotype threat as professionals.
A preliminary Northwestern Medicine study suggests that nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) may reverse disability and improve quality of life for patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS).
Brains of elderly patients with very sharp memories – patients known as cognitive SuperAgers – look distinctly different than their elderly peers, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Ali Shilatifard, PhD, started assisting in his grandfather’s lab in Tehran at age 5. Years later, Northwestern lands this acclaimed scientist to lead the new Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and halt cancer.
The Chicago medical campus welcomed the opening of a new leading-edge ambulatory care facility. The high-rise at 259 E. Erie, houses every convenience a patient could need, from doctor’s offices and imaging services to an outpatient surgery center and several retail offerings.
Northwestern Medicine scientists are developing an MRI test to detect heart transplant complications that is less costly and invasive than current biopsy protocols.