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Rate Video: Global Health InitiativeVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Oct 12

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By rss@youtube.com (GlobalHealth2) The Global Health Initiative, in partnership with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Center for Global Health and Chicago Lake Shore Medical Associates (CLSMA), supports a global health educational experience for medical students in under-resourced countr...

Stories

May of 2009

 

Rate Salt in chain restaurant meals increases risk of heart attacks ...

Original at blog.seattlepi.com external link    Fri, May 29

The restaurant industry should not add to these problems by raising kids' blood pressure as well," said Stephen Havas, MD, an adjunct professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. ...

Rate Set an example — and forget kids' menus

Original at San Antonio Express external link    Thu, May 28

 TX The restaurant industry should not add to these problems by raising kids' blood pressure as well," according to Dr. Stephen Havas, an adjunct professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a former vice ...

Rate Brain infections linked to lymphoma drug highlight need for ...

Original at Globe and Mail external link    Thu, May 28    1 related articles

 Canada They are two of 57 patients on the drug who became ill with PML, reported in a new study by Charles Bennett, a hematologist and oncologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. In 93 per cent of the cases, which took place ...

Rate Few pharmacies can translate prescription labels into Spanish - EurekAlert

Original at EurekAlert external link    Thu, May 28

press release), DC prescription medication instructions into Spanish, making it difficult for patients who speak only Spanish to understand how to take their medications properly, according to a new study from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. ...

Rate Nab-Paclitaxel Boosts Progression-Free Survival in Metastatic ...

Original at DG News external link    Thu, May 28

represent a key advance in the armamentarium of treatment for patients with MBC in the first-line setting," said William J. Gradishar, MD, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, ...

Rate William W. Wirtz Allocates $19.5 Million to Northwestern Memorial ... - PR Newswire

Original at sev.prnewswire.com external link    Wed, May 27

Northwestern Memorial Hospital is one of the country's premier academic medical centers and is the primary teaching hospital of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Along with its Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of ...

Rate Less-toxic Drug Prolongs Survival In Metastatic Breast Cancer - Science Daily

Original at Science Daily external link    Tue, May 26

press release) ScienceDaily (May 26, 2009) — Research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has found that a less toxic, solvent-free chemotherapy drug more effectively prevents the progression of metastatic breast cancer and has fewer side ...

Rate Seven solutions for sleepless situations

Original at WA today external link    Mon, May 25    1 related articles

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 Australia It's time to think about sleep much like we think of nutrition and exercise,'' says Phyllis Zee, a neurologist and director of the Sleep Disorders Centre at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Although we spend one-third of our ...

Rate 7 solutions for sleepless situations

Original at Wilton Villager external link    Sun, May 24    1 related articles

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 CT It's time to think about sleep much like we think of nutrition and exercise," said Phyllis Zee, a neurologist and director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "It's important for our overall health ...

Rate Aspirin lowers stroke risk in peripheral artery disease

Original at The Punch external link    Sat, May 23

 Nigeria And 15 of those 18 studies were done more than 10 years ago, said Dr. Mary McGrae McDermott, a professor of medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and co-author of an accompanying editorial. ”How relative they are to the ...

Rate Health-care reform requires reduction in hospital readmissions

Original at Medill Reports external link    Thu, May 21

 IL According to a study headed by Dr. Mark Williams of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine that analyzed Medicare claims to describe patterns of rehospitalization, approximately one-fifth of Medicare beneficiaries are rehospitalized within ...

Rate CYTOPATHOLOGIST/ SURGICAL PATHOLOGIST - Nature.com

Original at Nature.com external link    Thu, May 21

subscription), UK The Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is searching for an anatomic pathologist with cytopathology subspecialty and general/ subspecialty surgical pathology expertise. This is a full-time continuing non-tenure ...

Rate From 'sick care' to health care

Original at Austin Weekly external link    Wed, May 20

 IL Teen violence is an epidemic," said Sidney Weissman, professor of psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, adding that violence impacts health in ways that reach far beyond dealing with an immediate injury. ...

Rate Study shows bleach helps take pain out of eczema

Original at Medill Reports external link    Tue, May 19

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 IL A recent Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine study suggests that dilute bleach baths are a promising treatment for atopic dermatitis – also known as eczema – an inflammatory skin disorder that torments nearly 20 percent of children with ...

Rate Investment exec, urologist spend $1.55M in Winnetka

Original at chicago.blockshopper.com external link    Tue, May 19

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 IL Dr. Macejko specializes in urology at Northshore Memorial Hospital in Evanston. She earned her MD from Emory University School of Medicine in 2001 and completed her fellowship in endourology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Rate Orthopedic surgeon drops $1.05M in Peccole Ranch

Original at lasvegas.blockshopper.com external link    Tue, May 19

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 IL at Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Henderson. He's also served as a lieutenant commander with the United States Navy. He earned his MD from the Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine, and his bachelor's from Notre Dame.

Rate Popular cancer drug rituximab may lead to oft-fatal viral brain ...

Original at Thaindian.com external link    Mon, May 18    1 related articles

 Thailand The two patients are currently part of a new study from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine RADAR project, an international consortium of physicians that collaborate to identify adverse reactions to medications and devices, ...

Rate Orthopedic surgeon selling in Vernon Hills

Original at lakeco.blockshopper.com external link    Mon, May 18

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 IL He received his MD from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 1996, completed his residency at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Medical College.

Rate FDA OKs Ethicon Endo-Surgery NOTES Toolbox Trial

Original at EndoNurse external link    Mon, May 18

 AZ The four sites participating in the trial are Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; University of California-San Diego Medical Center; The Ohio State University Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery; and, the University of Missouri ...

Rate Reforming 'sick care' system back to health care

Original at Medill Reports external link    Thu, May 14

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Mass High Tech  IL “Teen violence is an epidemic,” said Sidney Weissman, professor of psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, adding that it impacts health in ways that reach far beyond immediate injury. Weissman and others such as ...

Rate Hypnotherapy may help ulcerative colitis patients socialize more

Original at Times of India external link    Thu, May 14

 India Laurie Keefer, a clinical health psychologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, reckons that the therapy could certainly help boost the quality of life for patients with ulcerative colitis, a nasty gastrointestinal disease ...

Rate Hypnotherapy Boosts Quality Of Life And Health For Ulcerative ... - Science Daily

Original at Science Daily external link    Wed, May 13

press release) In an early look at the data for the ongoing study, Keefer, a clinical health psychologist and an assistant professor of medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is finding that treatment with hypnotherapy enabled some ...

Rate Aspirin Lowers Stroke Risk in Peripheral Artery Disease

Original at U.S. News & World Report external link    Tue, May 12

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U.S. News & World Report, DC And 15 of those 18 studies were done more than 10 years ago, said Dr. Mary McGrae McDermott, a professor of medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and co-author of an accompanying editorial. "How relative they are to the ...

Rate Aspirin appears to help lower risk of stroke for patients with ... - EurekAlert

Original at EurekAlert external link    Tue, May 12

press release), DC Mary McGrae McDermott, MD, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, and a contributing editor of JAMA, and Michael H. Criqui, MD, MPH, of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, write that more research ...

Rate Relationship Between Sleep Duration and Incident Coronary Artery ... - Journal of American Medical Association

Original at Journal of American Medical Association external link    Tue, May 12

subscription), IL Additional Contribution: Laura Colangelo, MS (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine), provided the data analyses described in this letter; she is funded by the same National Institute on Aging grant as the original study.

Rate Aspirin and Secondary Prevention in Peripheral Artery Disease - Journal of American Medical Association

Original at Journal of American Medical Association external link    Tue, May 12

subscription), IL Author Affiliations: Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois (Dr McDermott); and Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego School ...

Rate People & promotions

Original at Pioneer Press Online external link    Mon, May 11

People & promotions  IL He is a professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School, Feinberg School of Medicine and past chairman of the division of OB/GYN at the National Center for Advanced Medical Education. ...

Rate Time for the Medical Profession to Act New Policies Needed Now on ...

Original at archinte.ama-assn.org external link    Mon, May 11    1 related articles

Correspondence: Dr Greenland, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and the Departments of Preventive Medicine and Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 N Lake Shore Dr, 11th Floor, Chicago, ...

Rate "Heart Attack Entrées with Side Orders of Stroke"

Original at Center for Science in the Public Interest external link    Sun, May 10

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 DC The restaurant industry should not add to these problems by raising kids' blood pressure as well," said Dr. Stephen Havas, an adjunct professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a former vice president ...

Rate Bleach baths may treat kids' eczema

Original at Times of India external link    Fri, May 8

 India And now, researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered that diluted bleach baths could provide powerful relief from the problem. It'sa cheap, simple and safe treatment that drastically improves the rash as ...

Rate Some Breast Cancer Patients Do Not Benefit from ALN Dissection - Newswise

Original at Newswise external link    Thu, May 7

press release) The study was supported by the American College of Surgeons Clinical Scholars in Residence program and the Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Citation: Karl Y. Bilimoria, David J. Bentrem, Nora M. Hansen, ...

Rate High Aromatase Expression in Uterine Leiomyoma Tissues of African ...

Original at Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism external link    Wed, May 6

 MD Japan Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Serdar E. Bulun, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Reproductive Biology Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, ...

Rate Guidelines for Acromegaly Management: An Update

Original at Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism external link    Wed, May 6

 MD Federico II University of Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy; Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism (AB), University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; Endocrinology Clinic (MM), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, ...

Rate Aging Baby Boomers and Cancer

Original at Medscape external link    Tue, May 5

 - Nick Mulcahy She is an assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, and a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. "As a people, we can either get older or ...

Rate This Week in PNAS

Original at GenomeWeb Daily external link    Tue, May 5

 NY In early online publication, a collaboration between Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the University of Chicago, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory defined the transcriptome of human CD34+ hematopoietic stem-progenitor cells, ...

Rate Dr. William Schamadan: Stroke jumbled my words a year ago

Original at Mansfield News Journal external link    Mon, May 4

 OH - William Schamadan, William Schamadan The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University has developed this quick test to see if 9-1-1 should be called immediately. Ask the victim to smile widely. Note if one side of the face seems to droop. Ask the victim to hold both arms ...

Rate AUA 2009: Generics Not Equal to Brand-Name Drugs for Overactive ...

Original at Medscape external link    Sun, May 3

 - Martha Kerr, Martha Kerr This is a much more serious problem than I was aware of," AUA spokesman Kevin T. McVary, MD, professor of urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, commented in an interview with Medscape after listening to ...

Rate Pediatrics fills 97.2% of first-year positions from the AAP ... - AAP News

Original at aapnews.aappublications.org external link    Fri, May 1

AAP News (subscription) Above, medical school graduates from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University compare results. "The best thing an academic adviser can do to help his or her graduating medical students get into a residency is to alert them to the ...

Rate Health Reform, Too Tough on Hospital Readmission

Original at health.usnews.com external link    Fri, May 1

Earlier this month, Stephen Jencks from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and colleagues analyzed the cases of more than 2 million Medicare patients who were readmitted to the hospital. Roughly 18 to 20 percent of patients were back ...

Rate AUA 2009: Induction of Retrograde Ejaculation an Indication of ...

Original at Medscape external link    Thu, Apr 30

AUA spokesman Kevin A. McVary, MD, professor of urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, told Medscape Urology that "it is important to try to manage these patients." "We need treatment options that work. ...

Rate Lawyer, radiologist list Shaker Heights abode

Original at cleveland.blockshopper.com external link    Thu, Apr 30

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 IL He attended the Emory University School of Medicine, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and the Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center. He completed his residency at the University of Washington ...

April of 2009

 

Rate Mingus Awareness Project 3 at The Hideout, May 7th

Original at Jazz Police external link    Wed, Apr 29

 MN The Foundation has been affiliated with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine since 1979, where it funds two world-class scientific research programs (Les Turner ALS Research Laboratories I and II) and an innovative clinical care program ...

Rate Bleach Baths Safely and Effectively Treat Childhood Eczema

Original at HealthNews external link    Tue, Apr 28

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TheMedGuru  CA Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered that diluted bleach baths offer safe and effective relief from the annoying itch of eczema while significantly improving the rash and reducing flare-ups of the ...

Rate The Change We Need in Health Care

Original at archinte.ama-assn.org external link    Mon, Apr 27    1 related articles

Correspondence: Dr Greenland, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 750 N Lake Shore Dr, 11th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611 (p-greenland{at}northwestern.edu). 1. Committee on Quality of Health Care in ...

Rate Factors Identified Linked to Early Detection of Melanoma in Older Men

Original at Medscape external link    Mon, Apr 27

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WEEK-TV In an accompanying editorial, Archives of Dermatology editor June K. Robinson, MD, from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, and colleagues, recommend a multifaceted approach to improve the early detection of ...

Rate Ethicon wins FDA approval for IDE application to start study of ...

Original at regulatoryaffairs.pharmaceutical-business-review.com external link    Mon, Apr 27

The four sites participating in the trial include Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; University of California - San Diego Medical Center; The Ohio State University Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery; and the University of Missouri ...

Rate Diluted bleach baths help eczema sufferers

Original at United Press International external link    Sun, Apr 26

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BBC News Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said the diluted beach baths are a cheap, simple and safe treatment that drastically improve the rash as well as reduce flare-ups of eczema, which affects 17 percent of school-age ...

Rate Clopidogrel Plus Aspirin Reduce Stroke Risk in Certain Patients ...

Original at Medscape external link    Thu, Apr 23

Mark J. Alberts, MD, Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Director, Stroke Program, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois Mark J. Alberts, MD, has disclosed that he has served as a ...

Rate Quality of 2- and 3-Dimensional Fast Acquisition Fetal Cardiac ... - Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Original at jultrasoundmed.org external link    Thu, Apr 23

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois USA; Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois USA (NG); and Department of Obstetrics ...

Rate Doctor duo lists Lake Forest home at $1.999M

Original at lakeco.blockshopper.com external link    Wed, Apr 22

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 IL He also is an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He studied medicine at the University Utrecht in the Netherlands and completed his internship and residency at the Medical College ...

Rate Stem cell therapy helps diabetics become insulin free

Original at Entertainment and Showbiz! external link    Wed, Apr 22

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Voice of America  India Richard K. Burt, MD, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, presented the findings of the study at a JAMA media briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, DC Clinical evidence indicates that there is an inverse ...

Rate FDA Grants Ethicon Endo-Surgery Approval of Its IDE Application to ... - PR Newswire

Original at prnewswire.com external link    Wed, Apr 22

The four sites participating in the trial include Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; University of California - San Diego Medical Center; The Ohio State University Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery; and the University of Missouri ...

Rate Diluted bleach baths help eczema sufferers - MarketWatch

Original at marketwatch.com external link    Tue, Apr 21

MarketWatch (press release) Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have said the diluted beach baths are a cheap, simple and safe treatment that drastically improves the rash as well as reduces flare-ups of eczema, which affects 17 percent of ...

Rate Online System May Help Identify Patterns of Adverse Surgical Events

Original at Medscape external link    Tue, Apr 21

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Modern Medicine Mortality (M&M)] conference in isolation without consideration of similar complications that occurred in the past," write Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS, from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, and colleagues. ...

Rate Study Says Stop Prescribing Heartburn Medication to Asthma ... - Media Newswire

Original at media-newswire.com external link    Mon, Apr 13

A new national study, led in Illinois by a researcher from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has found that the longstanding practice of prescribing heartburn medication is ineffective and unnecessarily expensive for asthma ...

Year 2008

 

Rate Hospital Type Makes Difference in Cancer Survival - Media Newswire

Original at media-newswire.com external link    Tue, Jul 29

Hospital Type Makes Difference in Cancer Survival Media Newswire (press release), NY - New research from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine may explain this difference. The Northwestern study found that cancer patients have ...

Rate Hospital Type Makes Difference in Cancer Survival - Media Newswire

Original at media-newswire.com external link    Tue, Jul 29

Hospital Type Makes Difference in Cancer Survival Media Newswire (press release), NY - New research from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine may explain this difference. The Northwestern study found that cancer patients have ...

Rate U. of C. to teach Evanston doctors

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Tue, Jul 15

 United States - Jul 15, 2008 Evanston Northwestern confirmed last month it was ending its 78-year relationship with Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and was in ... U of C, Evanston Northwestern form partnership Crain's Chicago Business Chicago Sun-Times

Rate U. of C. to teach Evanston doctors

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Tue, Jul 15

 United States - Jul 15, 2008 Evanston Northwestern confirmed last month it was ending its 78-year relationship with Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and was in ... U of C, Evanston Northwestern form partnership Crain's Chicago Business Chicago Sun-Times

Year 2007

 

Rate The Search for Beautiful

Original at Boston Globe external link    Sun, Jan 21

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 MA - Dr. Julius Few, a plastic surgeon at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, hails the fact that plastic surgeons are customizing their ...

Rate Northwestern Memorial Announces Largest Gift In Hospital's History

Original at WBBM780 external link    Wed, Jan 10

 Chicago - Jan 10, 2007 Their extraordinary generosity will help strengthen our partnership with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine by funding innovative ...

Year 2006

 

Rate Enzyme linked to diabetic kidney disease identified

Original at NewKerala.com external link    Wed, Nov 8

Washington, Nov. 8 : Scientists at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine say that an enzyme called ACE2 may hold potential to treat diabetic kidney disease, the most common form of kidney disease.

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Year 2008

 

Rate Northwestern terminating affiliation with Evanston Hospital

Original at Student Doctor Network Forums external link    Mon, Jun 16

By ampaphb Northwestern University (NU) and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) have decided to terminate the affiliation agreement between the Feinberg School of Medicine and ENH. The phase out of our affiliation with ENH will occur over the ...

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