Tag: Students
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Graduate Student Investigates Anti-Smoking Campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa
Raising taxes and implementing mobile-phone interventions may help reduce smoking in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an IPHAM lecture presented by a third-year PhD candidate.
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Student Advocates for Environmental and LGBT Issues at Home and Abroad
Michael Musharbash, a second-year medical student, is the national student representative of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize as part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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New Insights Into How the Retina Processes Orientation
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered cells in the retina that determine horizontal or vertical orientation, and demonstrated how they convey information.
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Student Investigates Sun Safety in Daycare
Daycares and early childhood education programs frequently use spray sunscreen on children, but still have room for improvement when it comes to sun safety, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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NUPOC Students Win Scholarship Honoring Prosthetics Pioneer
Charity Smith, first-year student in the Master’s in Prosthetics and Orthotics degree program, and Michael Hoggatt, second-year student in the program, were selected to receive the International African American Prosthetic and Orthotic Coalition Sam D. Benson Scholarship.
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Quality Toolkit Improves Care in Indian Hospitals
A simple toolkit of checklists, education materials and feedback reporting improved the quality of care, but not outcomes, in a group of 60 hospitals in south India, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Students Bring Cardiovascular Disease Prevention to Underserved Areas
At Keep Your Heart Healthy events, Feinberg medical students provide cardiovascular disease risk assessment and prevention counseling to underserved communities.
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Medical Student Promotes Wellness at Feinberg Through Research, Advocacy
Max Kazer, a third-year medical student, is investigating the impact of a meditation practice on stress reduction among medical students as part of his AOSC project.
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Feinberg Commemorates Martin Luther King Jr. With a Week of Discussion and Awareness
Feinberg capped off its week-long celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. with a keynote address by Charles Blow, op-ed columnist at the New York Times, political commentator on CNN and former Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale University.
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Medical Students Share Business Acumen to Improve Community Health
Medical students in Second Opinions, a student-run pro-bono consulting group, shared their experiences consulting for local healthcare nonprofits at a recent lecture.
