Tag: Research
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Heart Healthy Choices Early on Pay Off Later
A new study finds maintaining a healthy lifestyle from young adulthood into your 40s is strongly associated with low cardiovascular disease risk in middle age.
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Department of Ophthalmology Receives Research Grant
Research to Prevent Blindness awarded a grant to the Department of Ophthalmology to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
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Researchers Show How the Immune System Detects Bacteria
Christian Stehlik, PhD, professor of Rheumatology at Feinberg, discovered a protein in macrophage cells that identifies bacterial cell wall components in harmful bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes.
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Alzheimer’s Drug Could Cause Adverse Side Effects
Alzheimer’s drug may act like bad electrician, messing up wiring in brain and nervous system.
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When Body Piercings Go Wrong
Northwestern Medicine looks at the complications and medical consequences of body piercings. The paper also offers suggestions to minimize complications.
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Running the Great Wall of China for the CNADC
One man will embark on a mission equivalent to climbing Willis Tower, jogging to the Hancock Building, walking to the top, and then running the 24 miles roundtrip to Northwestern’s Evanston campus … all to support research for primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that has stricken his grandfather.
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What Shields LGBT Youth from Suicide?
The first longitudinal study to look at suicide ideation and self-harm in the LGBT population shows support from friends and family offers the most protection.
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Scientists at New Center Invent Therapy Apps, Medicine Bottles with Trackers
Scientists at a new Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine center are inventing web-based, mobile, and virtual technologies to treat mood disorders.
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Stupp Receives Prestigious Honor
Renowned for his research in self-assembly and regenerative medicine, Samuel Stupp elected to elite society.
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Study Shows Benefits of New PSAV Test for Prostate Cancer
A new study shows that PSAV risk count testing may provide a more effective screening for significant prostate cancer.
