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.
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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.
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.
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).
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.
Northwestern Medicine scientists demonstrated the ability of a protein, Cas2, in Legionella pneumophila to cleave nucleic acids resulting in increased infectivity in amoebae, its host organism and transmission vehicle for human infection of Legionnaires’ disease.
A recent Northwestern Medicine study is the first to explore the influence of online social networks in weight-management programs, finding that people who were more socially engaged also lost more weight during the program.
Northwestern Medicine scientists have revealed a mechanism underlying the cellular degeneration of the upper motor neurons that die in ALS, and developed a model system that will allow further research on the degeneration.