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American Medical News
Task force recommends against PSA test for prostate cancer

“What they’ve done is really extreme. It’s misguided … and it’s not warranted,” said prostate cancer surgeon William J. Catalona, MD, director of the Clinical Prostate Cancer Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University in Chicago.

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FOX News
Daily rhythm disruptions linked to fertility problems

Researchers at Northwestern University disrupted the circadian rhythms of female mice for five to six days after they mated with male mice. One group of 18 mice got an extra six hours of light; another 18 mice lost daylight.

FOX News
Childhood cancer effects may linger in adults

"I think it showed us these aren't necessarily life threatening late effects of cancer... but certainly we need to be more aware of the outcomes these patients are dealing with," said Karen Kinahan, coordinator of the STAR Survivorship Program at the Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center of Northwestern University in Chicago.

Crain's Chicago Business
Dental implant groups fight over name as business grows

“Patients are coming in much more frequently requesting dental implants as a solution,” said Dr. Mark Hutten, an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who specializes in replacing missing teeth.

TribLocal Evanston
Make Safety a Priority as Temperatures Begin to Rise

“Even though summer is a time to enjoy the weather outside, people often underestimate the risks that come with the heat,” said Rahul Khare, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. .

Penn Live
Getting To The Root Of The Problem

The report calls for medical schools to incorporate "lifestyle" medicine into their curriculums, as Northwestern University's medical school has done. It also called for insurers to pay for body mass index screening from infancy and obesity counseling.

ScienceBlog.com
Brief Treatment Works of Fear of Spiders

“Before treatment, some of these participants wouldn’t walk on grass for fear of spiders or would stay out of their home or dorm room for days if they thought a spider was present,” said Katherina Hauner, post-doctoral fellow in neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and lead author of the paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Medical Xpress
Childhood cancer scars survivors later in life

Scars left behind by childhood cancer treatments are more than skin-deep. The increased risk of disfigurement and persistent hair loss caused by childhood cancer and treatment are associated with emotional distress and reduced quality of life in adulthood, according to a new study led by a Northwestern Medicine advanced practice nurse, Karen Kinahan, and based on data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS).

HealthCanal.com
Don't Let the Summertime Wreck Your Waistline

Before starting to indulge this weekend, Hannah El-Amin, registered dietician at Northwestern Integrative Medicine, suggests making simple diet modifications to prevent unwanted pounds.

IANS (India)
Gut probe can spot deadly pancreatic cancer

"No one ever thought you could detect pancreatic cancer in an area that is somewhat remote from the pancreas, but this study suggests it may be possible," says gastroenterologist Michael Wallace, Mayo Clinic, Florida. He co-authored the study with Vadim Backman, professor of biomedical engineering and gastroenterologist Hemant Roy, both at Northwestern University.

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ABC News (National)
Spider Phobics Hold Big, Hairy Tarantula

In 2009, B.D. was paid $100 to take part in a study at Northwestern University's Feinberg's School of Medicine, the first to document the immediate and long-term brain changes after exposure therapy. There, 12 terrified subjects were exposed to a variety of spiders -- first in photos, then in a terrarium and finally in the palm of their hands.

US News & World Report
U.S. Advisers Say 'No' to Routine PSA Tests for Prostate Cancer

"I think they're throwing away the baby with the bathwater," said Dr. William Catalona, a professor of urology and director of the clinical prostate cancer program at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who wrote an accompanying journal editorial condemning the move.

"There's just no other way to detect prostate cancer early than through PSA testing," Catalona added. "If we were to completely stop PSA testing in all men . . . it would result in countless men dying of metastatic prostate cancer. People are happy to be cured of their prostate cancer, even if they have some side effects."

Huffington Post
Should Healthy Adults Over 50 Take Statins?

If any individuals experienced side effects, they weren't invited into the trial. This type of prescreening is "not clean science," says Vinay Prasad, an internist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, because it makes drugs look safer than they really are.

Beckers Spine Review
From Independent Investors to Salaried Employees: How Hospital Employment Affects Pain Management and Other Common Surgery Center Specialties

Gastroenterology has experienced an upswing in hospital employment in recent years, according to Sri Komanduri, MD, a gastroenterologist with Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. "I think the pendulum is swinging toward where it's more beneficial to work with the hospital, which may take administrative costs like maintenance, cleaning, compliance with regulatory organizations, all out of the physician's direct hands," says Dr. Komanduri. "It's less of a headache than a cost relief. Those are the sorts of advantages that a hospital could use to bargain with physician groups, giving them an incentive to become employees."

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Philly.com
Cortisone and Ryan Howard: Easing the pain, or worsening it?

"There wouldn't be any way that you would back me into the corner on anybody [with an Achilles problem] to go ahead and inject them," said Dr. Michael Schafer, an orthopedic consultant to the Chicago Cubs and chairman of the orthopedic surgery department at Northwestern University Hospital. "I've been in practice since 1974 and been involved in sports all my life. When it comes to the risk of an Achilles tendon tear, I'm concerned about cortisone."

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Tuson Sentinel
Doctors and insurers key to fighting obesity

Many harried physicians are unprepared to advise people about how to change their behaviors, unconvinced they have time to do so, and therefore look skeptically at screening, said Dr. Robert Kushner, clinical director of the Comprehensive Center on Obesity at Northwestern University.

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ABC News (National)
Is Boosting Your HDL to Cut Heart Disease a Lost Cause?

Some, like Dr. Philip Greenland, said the new evidence may very well close the book on such efforts.

"After several blows to the head of this theory, it is on the ropes, or maybe even down for the count," wrote Greenland, senior associate dean for clinical and translational research at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, in an email to ABC News.

Everyday Health
Punk Rock Star Comes Out as Transgender

Laura Berman, PhD is a leading sex and relationship educator and therapist, popular TV and radio host, New York Times best-selling author, and assistant clinical professor of ob-gyn and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.

The Peninsula
Acupuncture may help some people with lung disease: Study

“In a disease like COPD, we need to expand our thinking and come up with varying strategies to improve quality of life and relieve breathlessness,” said Dr. Ravi Kalhan, head of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s asthma and COPD program in Chicago.

Food Consumer
Boosts Your "Noggin" in 20 Minutes, Helps Stop Brain Shrinkage

Researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago have also discovered a couple of other mechanism that helps explain why exercise is so good for your brain.

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CBS News Chicago
Some Consumers Consider Greek Yogurt the Healthier Choice
Dietitian Holly Herrington of Northwestern Memorial Hospital agrees that Greek can be healthier than regular varieties.

"Greek yogurt is strained differently, so it removes a lot of the whey, a lot of the lactose, a lot of the sugar that's found in yogurt, leaving Greek yogurt higher in protein, a little bit lower in carbohydrates," she says.

Crain's Chicago
With NATO in town, hospitals brace for bioterrorism

At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chief of Staff Gary Noskin sent a memo to staff warning about possible street closures with little notice. "We have been informed that both Ohio and Ontario streets to and from East Fairbanks Court will be key travel thoroughfares" for motorcades, he wrote, and "could result in delays of up to several hours."

TechNewsWorld
Paralyzed Woman Takes Sip of Joe Using Mind-Powered Robo Arm

The signals sent by the implant in the woman's brain to the robotic arm may have enabled her to raise a flask to her mouth, but much more work will need to be done before the system is fit for common use, Lee Miller, the Edgar C. Stuntz distinguished professor of neuroscience at Northwestern University, told TechNewsWorld.

PhysOrg
'Copper pump's' potential benefit in cancer treatment

Until recently, they didn't know whether the transporter protein formed dimers, or trimers. In a 2006 breakthrough that was refined in 2009, scientists confirmed that the trimer is the predominant structure, which was confirmed by the pioneering work of Northwestern University Professor Vincenz Unger.

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ABC News (National)
Z-Pak Antibiotic Raises Death Risk for Some, Says Study

Cardiologist Leonard Ilkhanoff, director of the Inherited Arrhythmia Program at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, says that while it’s impossible to know what precisely is causing the increased risk of death, the study is very interesting.

ABC News (National)
Gene Predicts Parkinson's Progression

Dr. Puneet Opal, an expert in movement disorders at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, said the study poses an interesting idea, at least in terms of the basic mechanism of the disease.

MSNBC
Doctors, insurers are key to fighting obesity

Many harried physicians are unprepared to advise people about how to change their behaviors, unconvinced they have time to do so, and therefore look skeptically at screening, said Dr. Robert Kushner, clinical director of the Comprehensive Center on Obesity at Northwestern University.

Reuters
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study

"In a disease like COPD, we need to expand our thinking and come up with varying strategies to improve quality of life and relieve breathlessness," said Dr. Ravi Kalhan, head of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's asthma and COPD program in Chicago.

Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle
Robotic Arms Give Paralyzed Patients Ability to Grasp Objects

The length of time the female patient's electrode had spent in her brain was encouraging, said Lee Miller, a professor of physiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who also works on brain-controlled prosthetics and wasn't involved in this study.

Nature
A biological clock to wind them all

Joseph Bass, an endocrinologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, calls this an "intellectually intriguing argument." It presumes that circadian clocks evolved because they offered life a metabolic advantage to anticipating the presence of oxygen.

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Huffington Post
Sleepwalking More Common Than Thought

When coffee cravings hit after noon, reach for a cup of decaf, says Phyllis C. Zee, M.D., Ph.D., the director of the Sleep Disorders Program at Northwestern University.

Canton Daily Ledger
American Cancer Society boosts funding to $5.5 million for researchers in Illinois

Regan J. Thomas, Ph.D., of Northwestern University, has received a grant to investigate the development of new cancer medications with less toxic side effects. Traditional cancer drugs are based on structurally simple compounds with a high level of activity but a low level of selectivity, leading to dangerous side effects. Dr. Thompson is working to develop a series of structurally-complex candidate drugs based upon plan compounds, with higher levels of selectivity and less unintended toxicity in patients.

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WLS-TV Chicago
Special Segment: Safety Shock
"Ideally, you would want that defibrillator to be where it's accessible," said Dr. George Chiampas. And not only accessible, but in trained hands. Dr. Chiampas is leading an effort to train as many people as possible how to use AEDs.

A training video, produced by a team of Northwestern medical students, is designed to teach middle school students.

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Washington Post
Height, weight -- BMI? Doctors urged to treat body mass index as a vital sign

Many physicians are unprepared to advise people about how to change their behaviors and unconvinced they have time to do so, and therefore they look skeptically at screening, said Robert Kushner, clinical director of the Comprehensive Center on Obesity at Northwestern University.

Toronto Star
Is bad bedside manner a conscious decision on the doctor’s part?

Adam Waytz, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, says bad bedside manner — or what he describes as dehumanization — happens for a variety of reasons, from psychological demands placed on medical practitioners to the disparities in power in the doctor-patient relationship.

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US News & World Report
Health Buzz: FDA Panel Backs Preventive HIV Drug

"Consumers have the idea that the people who are selling herbal remedies are doing it out the goodness of their hearts," says Lauren Streicher, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. But supplement makers are even more profit-driven than pharmaceutical companies, which are subject to FDA review, she says.

ABC News (National)
FDA Still Cautious About Bone Drugs

Dr. Beatrice Edwards, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said she thinks the drugs are generally safe for as long as five years, but still keeps a close eye on her patients who take them.

Chicago Sun-Times
Dying Mom's Gift to All Daughters

Out of that was born the Lynn Sage Foundation, now solely funding two-year, $100,000 scholarships for promising cancer research scientists at Northwestern University.

Family Practice News
Many Patients Without Acid Reflux Stay on PPIs

Most of these patients reported having persistent, troublesome symptoms every day, and "a significant proportion" had scores on the GerdQ that would be considered diagnostic of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), said Dr. Gawron of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology and the Institute for Healthcare Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago, and his associates,

Health Canal
Understanding Risk Factors and Recognizing Stroke Symptoms May Save Lives

"A stroke occurs when a blocked blood vessel or artery interrupts blood flow to part of the brain or when bleeding occurs in the brain," explains Richard Bernstein, MD, director of the stroke service at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and associate professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "When blood flow is interrupted, the brain does not receive oxygen which causes brain cells to die. Depending on the severity of a stroke and where in the brain it occurred, speech, movement and memory may be impacted."

Red Orbit
FDA Report Suggests Women Reassess Bone Drug Use Due To Serious Adverse Events

Dr Beatrice Edwards, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, agreed with the FDA report and said she keeps a close eye on her patients who take bisphosphonates.

Nanowerk
New technique detects trace levels of new class of cancer biomarkers

A team of investigators from the Northwestern University Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (Northwestern CCNE) has developed a rapid, array–based technology using gold nanoparticles that is capable of detecting miRNAs at levels as low as 1 femtomolar (about 30,000 molecules in a drop of blood).

Nanowerk
Delivering nanoparticles to the cell nucleus

Now, a team of investigators from the Northwestern University Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (Northwestern CCNE) has developed star-shaped nanoparticle that can deliver a drug directly to a cancer cell's nucleus—an important feature for many potential anticancer therapies.

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ABC7 Chicago
Healthbeat Report: Uncontrollable Overeating
"We see a fair number of people who come in and go, really? There really is something wrong with me?" said Jenny Conviser, Psy.D., clinical psychologist, Insight Psychological Centers.

Conviser and psychiatrist Bill Ciganek are with Insight Psychological Centers which specializes in treating binge eating disorder. They say it's now considered the most common eating disorder in the U.S. affecting about 5-6 percent of adults.

Huffington Post
How Close is Too Close?

"Is it appropriate? This to a large degree depends upon the patient and the particular relationship that the physician has with the patient," said Tod Chambers, director of the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program at Northwestern University.

Ghana Web
Early Detection of Fibroid in Ghana Based on a New Gene Mutation

A recent discovery by scientist in the US state of Illinois, at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital provides a key to early detection of fibroid. A single gene called MED12 carries a mutation which when present in a stem cell of the uterus can initiate the fibroid tumor.

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Chicago Tribune
My stroke: Sen. Mark Kirk writes about his illness and rehabilitation

The medical team decided to transfer me to Northwestern Memorial Hospital late that afternoon in case surgery was necessary. Late Saturday afternoon, I rode downtown in an ambulance with Jay by my side. At Northwestern, I was examined by Dr. Richard Fessler, a renowned neurosurgeon. Dr. Fessler had been involved with me in various health policy initiatives over the years, so I knew I was receiving the best possible care.

Chicago Tribune
Third chance for one kidney

Dr. Lorenzo Gallon, medical director of the kidney transplant program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said it wasn't easy to decide to reuse the kidney. One major concern was exactly how the kidney would react in a new host after sustaining damage during the time it was implanted in Fearing.

Nature
Radiation risks: Raiders of the lost archive

We will never be able to repeat the scale of those animal experiments, for both funding and ethical reasons,” says Gayle Woloschak, a radiation biologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

Healthy Outlook
Study: Musicians Have Better Hearing as They Age

"Musical experience, actually making music, has a very profound effect on how we process sound. Musicians have lots of practice using auditory working memory that benefits them in all kinds of other communications," says Nina Kraus, Ph.D. and Principal Investigator at the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University.

The Indian Express
Regular sex makes you physically healthier

That is because endorphins and oxytocin are released during sex, and these feel-good hormones trigger pleasure centres in the brain that create feelings of intimacy and relaxation and help stave off anxiety and depression, said WH advisor Laura Berman, Ph.D., an assistant clinical professor of ob-gyn and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and author of "It's Not Him, It's You!"

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Chicago Sun-Times
In video, Sen. Mark Kirk says he's anxious to get back to work

Julius Dewald, chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, watched the video and said he was impressed with Kirk's progress.

Boston Globe
Research suggests self-disclosure is rewarding

Dr. Hans Breiter, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study, said the research is a good first step toward answering a question of growing importance, especially as channels for self-disclosure proliferate online and through smartphones.

The Pharma Letter
Intellect Neurosciences adds to its Alzheimer's development pipeline

Through an exclusive license obtained from Northwestern University, the company intends to develop and commercialize two proprietary antibodies, tauC3 and TOC-1, each of which targets certain abnormal forms of tau protein that are implicated in the nerve cell death that is characteristic to Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies.

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WBBM-TV Chicago

Donald Lloyd Jones, professor of preventive medicine, is interview about participation in an upcoming documentary on obesity.

WGN-TV Chicago
Opera singer overcomes AVM

Todd Parrish, Northwestern Neuroimaging Researcher: "This is Sandy's brain. You can see this dark region is where there is a tangle of blood vessels from the AVM."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Music training improves the aging process, researchers say

“The older musicians not only outperformed their older non-musician counterparts, they encoded the sound stimuli as quickly and accurately as the younger non-musicians,” said neuroscientist Nina Kraus. "This reinforces the idea that how we actively experience sound over the course of our lives has a profound effect on how our nervous system functions,” she said.

News Olio
Cholesterol Reducing Foods: Which Foods Affect Cholesterol?

“Oats definitely have an impact on cholesterol, though it’s not whopping,” says Linda Van Horn, professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Medical School.

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UPI
Single cell triggers fibroid uterine tumor

Dr. Serdar Bulun, the chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said the single cell activates other cells to join its frenzied expansion.

Nature
Anti-NGF painkillers back on track?

“Clearly, the advisory committee felt that further research was warranted, based on the potential for efficacy and our ability to conduct studies that will provide greater clarity regarding safety,” says Thomas Schnitzer, a rheumatologist from Northwestern University in Chicago, USA, who led a Phase II study showing that tanezumab reduces pain, stiffness and the use of rescue analgesics in patients with advanced OA of the knee (N. Engl. J. Med. 363, 1521–1531; 2010).

Daily Rx
Antipsychotic Drug may Help Depression

A study conducted at multiple sites, including Tufts Medical Center, Northwestern University, and Duke University, enrolled 73 patients who either had bipolar type II or major depression and who were currently experiencing a mixed mood state.  Patients were randomly assigned to receive ziprasidone or placebo for six weeks. The depression symptoms of the patients were measured each week.

Stem Cell Therapy
Single cell triggers fibroid uterine tumor

Dr. Serdar Bulun, the chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said the single cell activates other cells to join its frenzied expansion.

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Los Angeles Times
Asian women command premium prices for egg donation in U.S.

That rubric makes it hard to argue that one race deserves more compensation than another, said Laurie Zoloth, who teaches bioethics at Northwestern University.

The Inquisitr
Asian Women Could Earn $20,000, Just For Egg ‘Donation’

Laurie Zoloth, who teaches bioethics at Northwestern University, states that it is hard to argue that one race deserves more compensation for egg donation than others.

Medical News Today
Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks?

For instance, gold is the material scientists at Northwestern University use to make "nanostars", simple, specialized, star-shaped nanoparticles that can deliver drugs directly to the nuclei of cancer cells.

Science Daily
A Single Stem Cell Mutation Triggers Fibroid Tumors: Mutated Stem Cell 'Goes Wild' in Frenzied Tumor Expansion

"It loses its way and goes wild," said Serdar Bulun, M.D., the chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "No one knew how these came about before. The stem cells make up only 1 ½ percent of the cells in the tumor, yet they are the essential drivers of its growth.

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New York Daily News
'Paralyzed' monkey could pick up ball with help of special brain electrode implant: study

"This connection from brain to muscles might someday be used to help patients paralysed due to spinal cord injury perform activities of daily living and achieve greater independence," said researcher Lee Miller from Chicago's Northwestern University.

Crain's Chicago
Take two apps and call me in the morning

Researchers at Northwestern University's new Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies have been developing a mobile app that uses GPS technology, light sensors and accelerometers to track whether you're hibernating at home or doing something more uplifting like exercising or hanging out with friends.

Crain's Chicago
This IT guy could save your life

“A human could (do this), but it would be very time-consuming and you couldn't do it across all 2.2 million people in our electronic health record system. A computer can,” says Rex Chisholm, vice dean for scientific affairs and graduate education at the medical school and chair of the national eMerge network's steering committee. Because the program is funded with federal dollars, the algorithms will be available for other institutions. “The goal is to create a public library,” he says.

Crain's Chicago
Chicago's largest physicians groups

Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation is listed in Crain’s Chicago Business as one of the top five largest physicians groups in Chicago. 

Crain's Chicago
Taking a team approach to disease 'clusters'

Seamus Collins, director of business development and physician affairs at Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, which started testing the program in November, believes the case management nurses will help the program be more successful than many insurers' previous attempts to engage patients.

Windy City Live
Free (or low cost) Medical Screenings

Dr. Lauren Streicher tells us where to get free or low cost medical screenings that can save your life.

Kansas City Star
University of Kansas Hospital plans to renew heart transplant program

But nationally, the number of organ donors has been trending down as safety measures such as bicycle helmets and automobile air bags have reduced lethal injuries, said Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s medical school and a former president of the American Heart Association.

MedGadget
Researchers Make Paralyzed Limb Move by “Eavesdropping� on the Brain’s Neural Commands

At Northwestern University in Illinois, neuroscientists have found a way for patients to perform these basic hand movements, and possibly more, without the need of a properly functioning spinal cord.

MSN New Zealand
Monkey breakthrough to benefit paralysed humans

Scientists at Northwestern University in Chicago have managed to reverse hand paralysis in monkeys, which could be the next big breakthrough to find better systems to restore hand control to people.

Pakistan Today
Blood test helps doctors diagnose depression in adolescents

In a pilot study of 28 teenagers, researchers of Northwestern University demonstrated that depression could be diagnosed through a panel of 11 genetic markers, says the report published in the journal Translational Psychiatry.

EmpowHer
Indiana Woman Donates Liver to Save Brother-in-Law

To hear Sandy tell her story and learn more from her physician, Dr. Talia Baker, Director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant Program at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital, please listen to the Patient Power program.

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Mashable
Brain Electrodes Could Mean Movement For Spinal Injury Patients [VIDEO]

In a recent issue of Nature magazine, a team of researchers at Chicago's Northwestern University discovered they could control body movements using electrodes implanted in the brain, bypassing the spinal cord.

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CBS Smart Planet
Brain implant restores movement in paralyzed monkeys

To restore communication between the brain and the muscles that move limbs, a team led by Lee Miller of the Northwestern University turned to a method called brain-controlled functional electrical stimulation (FES).

Discovery News
Brain Implant Helps Paralyzed Hand Move

Scientists at Northwestern University built a device that can send signals from the brain directly to paralyzed muscles, causing them to move by thought.

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Voice of America
Blood Test Diagnoses Major Depression

Rather, says Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Illinois, the new blood test is the first to identify the many different types of major depression, from bipolar disorder to depression driven by severe anxiety.

MSNBC
Implant allows remote control of hand, no spinal cord necessary

Researchers at Northwestern University have created a system by which a paralyzed hand can be controlled through an implant in the brain by "eavesdropping" on the brain's commands and relaying them to corresponding implant in the arm.

Daily Mail (UK)
Breakthrough for spinal-cord injuries: 'Mind-reading' brain implant restores movement in paralysed hands by remote control

Researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago describe how they combined two pieces of technology to create a 'neuroprosthesis' – a device that replaces lost or impaired nervous system function.

Huffington Post
Brain Machine 'Moves Paralysed Hand' Using Electrical Signals From The Brain

Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine managed to send electric signals from the brain to the targeted limb to move, bypassing the damaged spinal cord.

Gizmag
Neuroprosthesis restores hand movement in paralyzed monkeys

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a neuroprosthesis that restores complex movement in the paralyzed hands of monkeys.

The Verge
Brain-implanted electrical device helps restore life to paralyzed limbs

Researchers at Chicago's Northwestern University have found a way to bypass the spinal cord in order to let the brain directly control otherwise-paralyzed muscles.

RedOrbit
Blind Mice, Paralyzed Monkeys, And Regenerative Medicine

Lee Miller, a professor of physiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, conducted his study on two monkeys who had nerve blocks used to simulate paralysis, much like the nerve paralysis seen in patients with a spinal cord injury.

International Business Times
Implant Bypasses Spinal cord, Allows ‘Paralyzed’ Monkey To Move Arm

"This gives the monkey voluntary control of his hand that is not possible with the current clinical prostheses," Lee Miller, lead researcher and professor of neuroscience at Northwestern University, said in a statement.

Daily Tech
New Device Sends Signals Directly from Brain to Muscles, Paralyzed Patients Could Benefit

Northwestern University researchers have created a machine that could one day allow paralyzed patients to move their hands again.

Yahoo! Phillipines
Scientists allow 'paralysed' monkey hand to pick up ball

"This connection from brain to muscles might someday be used to help patients paralysed due to spinal cord injury perform activities of daily living and achieve greater independence," said researcher Lee Miller from Chicago's Northwestern University.

Austin Chronicle
Letters at 3AM: Created He Them

Alice Dreger is professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethtics in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. In the summer of 2008, during the controversy over whether South African runner Caster Semenya was a man or a woman, Dreger wrote: "If the person has XY chromosomes, you declare him a man. If XX, she's a woman. Right? Wrong. A little biology: on the Y chromosome, a gene called SRY usually makes a fetus grow as a male. It turns out though, that SRY can show up on an X, turning an XX fetus essentially male. And if the SRY does not work on the Y, the fetus develops essentially female"

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MSNBC
Implant allows remote control of hand, no spinal cord necessary

Researchers at Northwestern University have created a system by which a paralyzed hand can be controlled through an implant in the brain by "eavesdropping" on the brain's commands and relaying them to corresponding implant in the arm.

Huffington Post
Teen Depression Can Be Diagnosed With New Blood Test, Northwestern University Says

Northwestern Medicine scientist Eva Redei has developed the first blood test to diagnose major depression in teens -- a breakthrough that allows for scientific and objective diagnosis over current subjective methods.

The New York Times
Letters: Risking Death in War, and Back Home

The writer is a professor of clinical psychiatry at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.

Discover Magazine
Brain decoder allows monkeys to control paralysed muscles

A team from Northwestern University has used a brain decoder to give monkeys control over their temporarily anaesthetised arms.

CNET.com
Brain-machine interface helps move paralyzed hand

After "eavesdropping" on the electrical signals of monkeys' brains that tell their arms and hands how to move, researchers at Northwestern University are reporting this week in the journal Nature that they've devised new tech that could some day help paralyzed patients move their limbs in spite of their spinal cord injuries

R&D
New brain-machine interface moves a paralyzed hand

"We are eavesdropping on the natural electrical signals from the brain that tell the arm and hand how to move, and sending those signals directly to the muscles," said Lee E. Miller, the Edgar C. Stuntz Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the lead investigator of the study, which was published in Nature

The Santiago Times (Chile)
Groundbreaking test developed for objective depression diagnosis

Northwestern University has made medical history. Doctors have developed a blood test to diagnose major depression in teens, the first definitive test of its kind.

BlissTree
Blood Test Could Soon Diagnose Depression (For Better Or Worse)

Researchers at Northwestern University may have found a way to objectively diagnose depression by looking for certain “gene expression markers.” Depression was once thought of as more of a temperament than an illness—its causes inexplicable and mysterious, or else the expression of moral conflict, artistic inclinations, repressed memories. Funny that it may soon be something diagnosable with a simple blood test.

Becker's Hospital Review
14 Hospital and Health System CFOs to Know

Peter McCanna, executive vice president of administration and chief financial officer, is listed in Becker’s Hospital Review as one of 14 Hospital & Health CEOs & CFOs to Know. 

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MSNBC
A blood test for depression? New research points the way

If the results are confirmed in larger trials, doctors may one day be able to screen for depression just as they do for diabetes, says study co-author Eva Redei, the David Lawrence Stein professor of psychiatric diseases affecting children and adolescents at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Los Angeles Times
Recorded brain commands, sent to muscles, may circumvent paralysis

Two rhesus moneys, T and J, played a simple ballgame while researchers from Northwestern University and Pittsburgh University listened in on the electrical commands sent to the muscles by the brain and the electrical impulses generated by the muscles of the hand and forearm in response.

Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Blind Mice Given Vision Lead Wave of Regenerative Medicine Tools

The final study, by Lee Miller, a professor of physiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, used two monkeys that had nerve blocks designed to simulate paralysis like that in patients with spinal cord injuries.

Scientific American
Depression in Teens Could Be Diagnosed with Blood Test

If a worried parent could have a family physician run a blood test, it might ease the diagnosis process during the already tough time of adolescence, said Eva Redei, a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., who was involved in the study of the teen-depression blood test.

Daily Beast
New Study Suggests Blood Tests Can Identify Depression

By examining animal models of the disease from both these angles, the team of researchers—led by Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine—was able to determine which markers would be most likely to show up in humans with MDD, and to narrow it down to a set that they could use to test for the disease.

WGN-TV Chicago

Reference to study by Eva Redei, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, on using blood test results to diagnose depression in teens.

Boston Herald
Blood test looks promising in diagnosing depression

“Once you have a measurable index of an illness, it’s very difficult to say, ‘Just pull yourself together,’ or ‘Get over it,’” said study leader Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Gawker
Technique Used to Manipulate Paralyzed Monkeys Could Probably Also Work to Mobilize a Zombie Army

Researchers at Northwestern University recently completed a study in which they were able to restore monkeys' paralyzed hands to "near-normal function" by inserting electrodes into their brains and electronically triggering neural activity.

Health 24
Excess pregnancy weight ups complications

"These are women who have not been on our radar because they don't have gestational diabetes and aren't obese, but our study shows if you are one step away from each of those, you carry some significant risks," lead investigator Dr Boyd Metzger, a professor of medicine and endocrinology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said.

Daily Rx
Adolescent genetic markers for depression pinpointed through blood test

Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and lead investigator of the study, noted that currently depression is "treated with a blunt instrument."

Fox News
The guide to beating a heart attack

While genetics plays a role in up to one-half of heart attacks, "You can trump an awful lot of your genetics with choices you make and with medicines if you need them," said Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, a cardiologist and chief of preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times
Northwestern study: Blood test could detect depression in teens

A Northwestern University scientist has developed a first-of-its-kind blood test for teen depression that might one day be used the same way blood samples are used to help diagnose diabetes or cancer.

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Scientists Report Biomarker Panel for Diagnosing Depression in Adolescents

In addition to identifying and validating an 11-gene panel for diagnosing early-onset MDD, the Northwestern University-led team found a partially overlapping, 18-gene panel of biomarkers that could distinguish between patients exhibiting just early-onset MDD, and those with major depression and anxiety disorder. The authors describe their research in Translational Psychiatry, in a paper titled “Discovery of blood transcriptomic markers for depression in animal models and pilot validation in subjects with early-onset major depression.”

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TIME Magazine
A Blood Test to Diagnose Depression in Teens?

“Depression in adolescents affects basically every component of their thinking and makes everything very difficult psychologically and socially,” says Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

CBS News
Depression blood test for teens may lead to better treatment, less stigma

"Right now depression is treated with a blunt instrument," study author Dr. Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a written statement. "It's like treating type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes exactly the same way. We need to do better."

US News & World Report
Researchers Develop Blood Test for Depression

"I think it would be more accurate to diagnose depression with a blood test," said study author Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The biomarkers now have to be studied in a larger group of teens, she added.

US News & World Report
Overweight Pregnant Women at Higher Risk for Complications

"These are women who have not been on our radar because they don't have gestational diabetes and aren't obese, but our study shows if you are one step away from each of those, you carry some significant risks," lead investigator Dr. Boyd Metzger, a professor of medicine and endocrinology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said in a university news release.

WebMD
Blood Test for Teen Depression Under Study

"The bottom line is that a test is possible from blood that can differentiate teens with major depression from those who do not have it," says scientist Eva Redei, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

ABC News
Using a Blood Test, Researchers ID Depression in Teens

"Teenagers are extraordinarily vulnerable to depression," said Eva Redei, author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

FOX News
Scientists develop first blood test to diagnose depression

However, Northwestern University researchers say a new blood test is able to identify certain ‘gene expression markers’ that can objectively diagnose the depression in teenagers.

Los Angeles Times
'Fifty Shades of Grey' by E.L. James is selling books (and more)

But Laura Berman, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, said "Fifty Shades" has become a 21st century must-read in part because of the seemingly retrograde relationship at its heart.

Huffington Post
Depression Researchers May Have Developed First Blood Test For Teens

"What we want to emphasize is how vulnerable this age group is -- how difficult it is to get them to go and see someone if they are in trouble because of the stigma for them and for their parents," said Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, who developed the test.

Los Angeles Times
Blood test looks promising in diagnosing depression

"Once you have a measurable index of an illness, it's very difficult to say, 'Just pull yourself together,' or 'Get over it,' " said study leader Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

CNN.com
Researcher: Blood test for early-onset depression promising

Early-onset major depressive disorder is a mental illness that affects people under 25. While about 2 to 4% of cases are diagnosed before adolescence, the numbers skyrocket to 10-25% with adolescence, explains lead researcher Eva Redei, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

ABC News
Testosterone May Help Heart Failure Patients, Studies Suggest

"These data are interesting," said Dr. Clyde W. Yancy, cardiology chief at Northwestern University in Chicago and a former American Heart Association president.

Daily Mail (UK)
Blood test is first to diagnose depression in teenagers

Lead investigator Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the United States, said: 'Right now depression is treated with a blunt instrument.

Toronto Star
Blood tests could diagnose teen depression, study says

Teenagers suffering from depression had different levels of specific genetic blood markers than their non-depressed peers, according to the study conducted by the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and published in Translational Psychiatry.

Live Science
Blood Test May Reduce Stigma of Depression

If a worried parent could have a family physician run a blood test, it might ease the diagnosis process during the already tough time of adolescence, said Eva Redei, a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., who was involved in the study of the teen-depression blood test.

New Scientist
Blood test could diagnose teen depression

Depression is hard to diagnose in teens due to healthy hormonal changes. To change that, Eva Redei at Northwestern University in Illinois and colleagues first worked out which genes are involved in the condition by comparing gene expression in rats with depression to that in normal rats.

Family Goes Strong
On Warren Buffett, Prostate Cancer, and Your Family

In a prostate cancer story I wrote for Chicago magazine last year, I noted that Northwestern University's William Catalona, who invented the PSA test, is studying why people in Asia boast lower rates of prostate cancer.

Everyday Healty
Can Your Relationship Survive Low Self-Esteem?

Laura Berman, PhD is a leading sex and relationship educator and therapist, popular TV and radio host, New York Times best-selling author, and assistant clinical professor of ob-gyn and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Science News
Daytime anesthesia gives bees jet lag

“Quite novel and notable,” Ravi Allada of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., says of the new study.

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The Wall Street Journal
The Guide to Beating a Heart Attack

Particularly troubling are increasingly common reports of heart attacks among younger people, even those in their 20s and 30s, says Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, a cardiologist and chief of preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

New York Daily News
An electrocardiogram or EKG could predict future attacks in elderly

"For the time being, in the absence of clear evidence of benefit and no clear implications for costs, the best advice is not to perform ECGs in asymptomatic patients, regardless of age," said an accompanying editorial by Philip Greenland of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Science
Drugged Honeybees Do the Time Warp

"I think they've made a compelling case that anesthesia is affecting the [circadian] clock," adds neurobiologist Ravi Allada of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who was not involved in the research. People have considered anesthesia's effects on movement and sensory perception, but no one has focused on its effects on the circadian clock, he notes.

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FOX Chicago WFLD-TV

Anju Peters, MD, allergy, was interviewed in continuing coverage of seasonal allergies. Peters comments that seasonal allergies are going to affect us differently this year because the mild winter created a longer growing season, which means an earlier start to allergy season. She adds that it may also lead to a season that is more severe than usual.

Windy City Live
Fertility After 40

Lauren Streicher, MD, gynecology, was interviewed regarding fertility in women after the age of 40. Streicher comments that some women conceive very easily at 40, while others start to have trouble in their early 30s.

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The New York Times
Pre-Med’s New Priorities: Heart and Soul and Social Science

“The definition of readiness for medical education clearly has an academic component that the MCAT has captured well,” Dr. William McGaghie, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote a decade ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “But it also has professional and personal components, as yet unmeasured or measured poorly.”

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The Wall Street Journal
Study Links Mothers' Weight and Blood-Sugar Levels to Health of Newborns

“My recommendation would be that every pregnant mother should have a chance to have dietary advice. It would pay off in the long run,” says Dr. Boyd Metzger, the principle investigator of the study and a professor of medicine-endocrinology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

WebMD
Thyme's Time as Acne Remedy May Be Coming Soon

Amy Forman Taub, MD, agrees. She is the medical director of Advanced Dermatology and an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Northwestern University Medical School, both in Chicago. "We always need more treatments for acne because there are so many people who suffer with it."

Private MD Labs
Many women may face pregnancy complications associated with weight and blood sugar

The Northwestern University researchers who conducted the study said that obesity and gestational diabetes are recognized risk factors for complications.

Daily Rx
Predicting Heart Events in the Elderly

In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Philip Greenland, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, questioned whether screening patients without symptoms would be beneficial.

Everyday Health
How Couples Can Move Past Anger

Laura Berman, PhD , is a leading sex and relationship educator and therapist, popular TV and radio host, New York Times best-selling author, and assistant clinical professor of ob-gyn and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Emax Health
New health risks for overweight pregnant women found

Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine explain in a news release that women with slightly higher blood sugars and who are slightly overweight haven’t been considered at risk for bad pregnancy outcomes, with focus being on obese women who develop gestational diabetes.

RedOrbit.com
Disrupted Sleep Schedules Increase Incidences Of Obesity And Diabetes

Kathryn Reid, a research assistant professor of neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, who was not involved in the study, was surprised that the age of the participants did not seem to make a difference in how people’s health was affected by sleep. Half of the participants were in their 20s and half were in their late 50s or early 60s.

Bioscience Technology
New Pregnancy Risk for Babies and Moms

“These are women who have not been on our radar because they don’t have gestational diabetes and aren’t obese, but our study shows if you are one step away from each of those, you carry some significant risks,” said principle investigator Boyd Metzger, M.D., a professor of medicine-endocrinology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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Chicago Tribune
Transplant technique opens door to patients forgoing anti-rejection drugs

Study co-author Dr. Joseph Leventhal said the procedure has marked the first success at making a recipient's immune system accept a mismatched organ — one with a high rate of rejection — or from those donors who are unrelated, which made up the majority of the roughly 28,000 organ transplants conducted in the U.S. last year.

Chicago Tribune
S.M.A.R.T. Heart engages in upbeat care

"Heart disease makes you especially vulnerable to depression, anxiety and stress," said Kim Feingold, one of three cardiac psychologists at Bluhm, which serves about 1,000 patients a year. 

WFLD-TV (FOX Chicago)
Whooping Cough Spreads Through Illinois Schools

Northwestern Medicine's Dr. Anita Chandra joined FOX Chicago News to talk about what whooping cough is and how Illinois schools are trying to fight its spread.

The Bond Buyer
Illinois OKs $875M for Health Care, Higher Ed

The authority also gave final approval to Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation's refunding of up to $70 million of bonds. The foundation is the academic faculty practice for full-time faculty of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago doctors get to 'heart of the matter' in documentary

“The Heart of the Matter,” narrated by North Shore native Chris O'Donnell, also features Dr. Carl Backer (division chief, cardiovascular-thoracic surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital); Dr. Ziyad Hijazi (director of congenital and structural heart disease at Rush Medical Center); and Dr. Marla Mendelson (director of adult congenital heart center at Northwestern University).

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nick Collins hopes to return to football after fusion surgery

"A lot of people think neck surgery, you'll never be able to play again," said Wellington Hsu, an assistant professor of spine surgery at Northwestern University who did a 20-year study of NFL players who suffered the same injury Collins did. 

Science Codex
Older adults with ECG abnormalities may be at increased risk of coronary heart disease events

In an accompanying editorial, Philip Greenland, M.D., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, writes that regarding the question if there should be routine screening with resting ECG in asymptomatic patients, several groups currently advise against this practice.

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Chicago Tribune
Executive Profile: Ann Lurie, philanthropist

"Ann is very smart," said Dr. Lewis Landsberg, the Irving S. Cutter professor of medicine and dean emeritus for the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. "She likes to make sure that her money is being spent wisely. She consults widely, thinks very carefully about it and makes her own decisions."

Reuters
Kidney "living donations" favor some patient groups

"One of the great benefits of living kidney donor transplant is you don't have to wait," said Dr. John Friedewald at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who did not participate in the research.

CNN
Building relationships amid memory loss

"The best you can give for a person with dementia is recognition of the person they were and are and be compassionate in your communication," said Darby Morhardt, a research associate professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center.

Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago Health Care Job Changes

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE, Chicago: Dr. Stephen L. Ondra, 55, to chief medical officer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

TribLocal Lake Forest
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Names Stephen L. Ondra Chief Medical Officer

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare announced that it named Stephen L. Ondra, MD, as chief medical officer for Northwestern Memorial Hospital. 

TribLocal Skokie
Northwestern Comprehensive Epilepsy Center Recognized with Level 4 Designation by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers

The Northwestern University Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital has been recognized as a Level 4 epilepsy center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC). 

The Hospitalist
Three Earn Master of Hospital Medicine Designation

SHM is proud to announce that Patrick J. Cawley, MD, MBA, MHM, Peter K. Lindenauer, MD, MSc, FACP, MHM, and Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP, MHM, have earned the Master in Hospital Medicine designation. 

Yahoo! Voices
How to Get Men to See a Doctor

Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine took a look at some of the reasons many men are reluctant to see a doctor. Robert Sobut, MD, indicated that from the time men are young, they are taught that toughing it out is tied to their masculinity. His colleague, Eric Mizuno, MD, said, "Men seem to only respond to catastrophic events or upon the recommendation of a third party."

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LakeForest-LakeBluff Patch
OB Hospitalists: On Call for Expecting Mothers 24/7

Tanner Colegrove, MD, leads the new OB Hospitalist team at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, with the goal of creating a center of excellence for maternity care.

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U.S. News & World Report
Health Buzz: Most Americans Get Plenty of Vitamins

"Consumers have the idea that the people who are selling herbal remedies are doing it out the goodness of their hearts," says Lauren Streicher, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Scientific American
Could a Mystery Virus be the Culprit in Kawasaki Disease?

In the Nature podcast interview that went along with my Kawasaki Disease story at Nature (look for the interview halfway down the page at the story here), I talked about the tantalizing work of Dr. Anne Rowley at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.

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MSNBC.com
Adult-onset motion sickness rare -- but can happen

“Let’s say your eyes are reading in the car, so they think you should be still, but the bouncing of the car tells your ears you’re moving,” says Timothy Hain, M.D., an otoneurologist and professor at Northwestern University Medical School.

Chicago Tribune
'Personhood' becomes ground for debate in Naperville

A potential problem raised by critics is the possibility of too many fetuses developing in the womb, leading to some being aborted. But Dr. Ralph Kazer, chief of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said that situation is increasingly rare.

HealthCanal.com
New Drug Prevents Spread of Human Prostate Cancer Cells

"This is an extremely promising new therapeutic that locks down aggressive prostate cancer cells so they don't move," said Raymond Bergan, MD, Director of Experimental Therapeutics for theRobert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. 

Med Page Today
Kinks Force LVAD Recall

Cheney's tenure with the device demonstrates that the time has come to consider LVADs as part of the treatment strategy, Clyde Yancy, MD, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University in Chicago and a past president of the American Heart Association, told MedPage Today at the time the HeartMate II was approved.

EmpowHer.com
Study Aims to Help Latinas Thrive after Breast Cancer

Drs. Annette Stanton of University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and Betina Yanez of Northwestern University, in conjunction with the Avon/Love Army of Women want to help change that.

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WTTW Chicago Tonight
Doctors Recommend Fewer Tests for Patients

Stephen Devries, MD, cardiology, was interviewed on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight in continuing coverage of a top five list of tests or procedures commonly used without good cause as determined by a group of nine physician associations.

Becker's Hospital Review
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Names Dr. Stephen Ondra CMO

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in Chicago has named Stephen Ondra, MD, as CMO of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, effective April 16. 

News-Medical.net
Ultrasound & MRI as additions to mammograms for breast cancer detection

“While supplemental ultrasound and MRI screening detect more cancers, it is important to emphasize that an annual mammogram is still recommended and neither ultrasound nor MRI is meant to replace mammography,” said study author Ellen Mendelson, a professor of radiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, in a statement.

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Reuters
Northwestern Study Compares Endovascular Brain Aneurysm Repair Devices

Aneurysms can be a very serious health threat, according to Bernard R. Bendok, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, who is the principal investigator for the new generation Hydrogel Endovascular Aneurysm Treatment Trial (HEAT).

MedicalXpress.com
New Drug Prevents Spread of Human Prostate Cancer Cells

"This is an extremely promising new therapeutic that locks down aggressive prostate cancer cells so they don't move," said Raymond Bergan, M.D., director of experimental therapeutics for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.

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New Parent
Baby Basics

“Hypoallergenic, fragrance-free wipes are extremely gentle and okay for newborns,” says Anthony J. Mancini, M.D., associate professor of pediatric dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago.

Everyday Health
7 Ways to Raise HDL Cholesterol

“HDL cholesterol is a scavenger that cleans up bad cholesterol,” explains cardiologist Marla Mendelson, MD, medical director of the Center for Women's Cardiovascular Health at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute in Chicago. 

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The Today Show
Pink Slime

Bethany Doerfler, research dietician at the Feinberg School of Medicine, was interviewed regarding the controversy over ‘pink slime’ in ground beef. 

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Chicago Sun-Times
Children's Memorial Leases Playboy Space

... a small part of the space will be subleased to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

WMAQ-TV Chicago (NBC)

Reference to Northwestern University report that found 20 percent of body piercings result in bacterial infections.

Chicago Phoenix
Garofalo talks LGBT youth health, advocacy at UIC

Garofalo, considered to be national expert on the health of LGBT youth and HIV-positive youth, is an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the director of Children’s Memorial Hospital’s Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention.

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Chicago Tribune
How can we let medical research funds wither?

Dr. Eric G. Neilson is vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Yahoo!
Ease Symptoms of Aging

Dress in layers so you can cool down quickly; dial down the thermostat before you go to bed; and limit your intake of alcohol, hot drinks and spicy foods, as they're common hot-flash culprits, says Emily Szmuilowicz, MD, assistant professor of endocrinology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 

ABC News (National)
Alcohol May Reduce Death in Men Who Survived Heart Attack

But because the data was based on self-reports, which can lead to measurement errors, Dr. Robert Bonow, professor of medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said the findings should be taken with caution.

NBC Nightly News
$500 Million Jackpot

David Zich, MD, emergency medicine, commented on the impact of winning the lottery.

New York Post
Knicks have to be patient with Amare's injured back

Dr. Wellington Hsu , an orthopedic surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago who specializes in sports medicine, told The Post a common procedure to treat bulging disks for pro athletes is an epidural steroid injection in addition to oral anti-inflammatory medication.

Chicago Tribune
Transplant technique opens door to patients forgoing anti-rejection drugs

Study co-author Dr. Joseph Leventhal said the procedure has marked the first success at making a recipient's immune system accept a mismatched organ — one with a high rate of rejection — or from those donors who are unrelated, which made up the majority of the roughly 28,000 organ transplants conducted in the U.S. last year.

FOX Chicago
Eating Placenta After Birth: Healthy or Hoax?

Dr. Lauren Streicher is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern.

Chicago Tribune
Piercings pinned to infection risk

About 20 percent of body piercings result in bacterial infections, according to a paper published by Dr. Anne Laumann, chief of dermatology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Hartford Courant
Piercings pinned to infection risk

About 20 percent of body piercings result in bacterial infections, according to a paper published by Dr. Anne Laumann, chief of dermatology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

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FOX News National
Babies still put at risk of sudden death, study finds

"People are getting part of the message, but not all of it," said Debra Weese-Mayer, a pediatrician at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who wasn't involved in the study.

Chicago Tribune
Medicaid cuts, property tax battle a stress test for many hospitals

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare also faces the threat of a double whammy. Its downtown hospital is the fifth-largest Medicaid provider in the state, and its Prentice Women's Hospital was one of the three that lost its property tax exemption last year.

Crain's Chicago Business
Medical Experts Fine-Tune Recommendations for Aspirin, Statins

“It’s cast in stone,” says Dr. Clyde Yancy, associate director of Northwestern’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.

Crain's Chicago Business
Howard Brown to expand, add services

One of those competitors is Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, which is vacating the space Howard Brown is taking. The doctors group has been treating the LBGT population in Lakeview for more than 20 years, noted Daniel Derman, the group's president.

Medical News Today
Deep Brain Stimulation Allows Surgeons To Control Tremors With Brain 'Pacemaker'

Through her research the couple learned about another movement disorder called essential tremor and found their way to Northwestern's Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center.

Babble
The Most Scientific Birth is the Low Tech Birth

When Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University, got pregnant she researched her options and decided that a low-tech birth would be the most scientifically sound approach for her pregnancy.

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Retuers
Many young cancer patients don't discuss fertility

"Obviously not all women are interested in fertility preservation, but it's really, really important at least to have the conversation with them," said Susan Klock, a psychologist who discusses fertility preservation with cancer patients at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Chicago Tribune
Bears' Knox will open season on PUP list

Srdjan Mirkovic, the Bears' spine consultant and certified orthopedic surgeon on staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, performed the one-level vertebral fusion on Knox.

Crain’s Chicago Business’ Cardiac Care Supplement
Lifestyle Trumps Genes

“A healthy lifestyle really is the fountain of youth,” says Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, medical director of the Center for Preventitive Cardiology at Northwestern’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.

Crain’s Chicago Business’ Cardiac Care Supplement
Latest Advances in Cardiac Care Offer New Hope

Re-narrowing of the arteries with medicated stents now occurs in only about 5% of cases, compared to about 20% of those using bare metal stents, according to Dr. Charles Davidson, medical director of Northwestern’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. What’s next? Look for bio-absorbable stents, due to be tested this year. The stents dissolve over time. “It could prove to be an advantage,” says Dr. Davidson.

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ABC News
Pregnancy Increases Heart Attack Risk

Dr. Okwuosa is an internal medicine resident Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

Las Vegas Review Journal
Drug-free transplants: Experimental methods showing promise

"I'm so lucky," says the 47-year-old Porter, who stumbled across the research at Chicago's Northwestern University. Porter was able to quit her pills last summer, a year after her transplant, and says, "I feel amazing."

Med Page Today
Cheney Transplant Turns Focus to Age and HF Treatments

"Cheney's situation demonstrates that we can provide really great care for patients with advanced heart disease and it no longer needs to be considered a desperate situation," according to Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University in Chicago and a past president of the American Heart Association.

Health Imaging
SIR: Low-dose protocol reins in rad dose during lung biopsy

"Statistically, many people who undergo screening [CT] will have nodules detected with CT and a biopsy may be recommended. We want to minimize the side effects of the biopsy procedure," said Jeremy Collins, MD, assistant professor of radiology at Northwestern University in Chicago.

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NBC Today Show
Docs treating rising number of women with adult acne

Dr. Schlosser, the director of the Women’s Skin Health Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, points out two studies that show adult acne in women is quite common. 

♦ Also appears on MSNBC.com 

Washington Post
Few meet all seven heart-health recommendations

A commentary on the research written by Donald Lloyd-Jones of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine notes that “Data from all of the recent studies indicate that the face of ideal cardiovascular health is a young, educated white woman.”

WLS-TV Chicago (ABC)
ADHD diagnosis rates rise dramatically over decade

New research by Northwestern University in Chicago indicates the number of children receiving a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorders has risen by 66 percent over the last decade.

Nurse.com
Study finds surge in ADHD diagnoses among children

"ADHD is now a common diagnosis among children and teens," Craig Garfield, MD, first author of the study and assistant professor in pediatrics and medical and social sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and a pediatrician at Children’s Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said in a news release.

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FOX News National
Understanding and Preventing Runner’s Knee

Dr. Sara Edwards, an orthopaedic surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said, “There seems to be a threshold for runner’s knee which is different for each person. Some people can run 3 miles per day without problems, but when bumped up to 5 miles per day experience pain.  Other people can do marathon after marathon without any issues.”

Dr. Michael Terry, also an orthopaedic surgeon at Northwestern Memorial, stated, “Runners knee prevention is pretty challenging in most patients. Common tactics to avoid it employ quadriceps strengthening exercises, rest, ice, NSAIDs [Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs], and shoe/footwear modification.”

Cardiology Today
Meeting greater number of recommended CV health factors lowered risk for death

In an accompanying editorial, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, of the department of preventive medicine and division of cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said a proposed concept to shift the population distribution toward greater health is key to improving CV health.

EmpowHer
Lung Cancer Diagnosis for Someone who Never Smoked?

Melissa Johnson, MD, hematology/oncology, is mentioned on the health website EmpowHER.com regarding her interview for Patient Power regarding a patient with lung cancer.  

Health Canal
Mild Winter Leads to Early Allergy Season

Anju Peters, MD, allergy, is quoted on HealthCanal.com in continuing coverage of seasonal allergies.  Peters comments that seasonal allergies are going to affect us differently this year because the mild winter created a longer growing season, which means an earlier start to allergy season.  She adds that it may also lead to a season that is more severe than usual.  

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KABC online (Los Angeles)
Sgt. Robert Bales-PTSD Link at Odds With Research

"Damage to individual veterans is so much greater than their damage to other people," said Dr. Joan Anzia, associate professor in psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. "As tragic as those killings [in Afghanistan] are, those are few and far between compared to what our soldiers, veterans and their families suffer."

Huffington Post
ADHD Diagnoses In Children Up 66 Percent

"There is increased concern on behalf of parents and teachers and doctors. There's been a lot more press and advertising and public health announcements around diagnoses and treatment," said Craig Garfield, a researcher at Northwestern University and the lead author of the study. "Therefore, more people are probably asking their doctors about (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)."

Chicago Tribune
Little-known type of dementia strikes at behavior

On Saturday, Duhig will participate in a national conference on FTD that's being hosted by the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The Hospitalist
Defensive Medicine Enters Med Student Curriculum

"We hope this study sheds light on the fact that defensive medicine practices are frequently recommended by faculty as part of the informal curriculum," says Kevin O'Leary, MD, MS, associate chief of hospital medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and lead author of the study.

Windy City Times
AIDS: Text Me, new approach to youth HIV med compliance

Garafalo, the director of adolescent HIV services at Children's Memorial and associate professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is the study's principal investigator.

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Associated Press
Kidney Transplant Patients Seek Life Without Drugs

"I'm so lucky," says the 47-year-old Porter, who stumbled across the research at Chicago's Northwestern University. Porter was able to quit her pills last summer, a year after her transplant, and says, "I feel amazing."

♦ Also appeared in MSNBC.com
CBS News
Too few keep heart-healthy habits

"With diseases such as [heart disease and stroke], the majority of events occur in the large proportion of the population with average or only mildly elevated levels of risk factors, rather than in the small subset with marked elevations," Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, writes in an editorial that accompanies the study.

WBBM-AM (CBS) Chicago
Wear Sunscreen 365 Days a Year

Roopal Kundu, assistant professor of dermatology, discusses sunscreen

The Atlantic
The Most Scientific Birth is Often the Least Technological Birth

By Alice DregerDreger is a professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She has written for The New York TimesThe Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Slate
ADHD Diagnoses Increase in an Age of Distraction

Author study Craig Garfield, a professor and pediatrician, also followed trends in ADHD treatment between 2000 and 2010, mapping the frequency with which certain drugs were prescribed onto the release of public health advisories from the FDA.

WAGA-TV (Atlanta)

Reference to Craig Garfield, assistant professor in pediatrics and medical social sciences, and study on the rise of ADHD diagnoses.

Ladies’ Home Journal
Be a Quitter: How to Break Your Worst Habits

The expert: Carol Southard, RN, a tobacco treatment specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Her give-it-up guide: Southard says it's a myth that smokers have to want to quit in order to succeed. "We do them a huge disservice by telling them to wait until they're ready. It's more important that they decide to quit and learn how to do it."

EmpowHer
Stem cell research allows for mismatched kidney transplants

But a new clinical trial from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ill. has shown how stem cells can be used to “trick” a recipient’s immune system into believing the new organ has been part of that person’s body all along.

Open Market
Human Achievement of the Day: Mind-Controlled Prostheses

A breakthrough by researchers at Northwestern University is giving hope to millions of amputees that they might eventually regain some of the ability they lost. While most prosthetic limbs utilize a motor in order to achieve motion, the Northwestern prosthesis can be controlled by the wearer’s own mind.

Associated Press (State Wire)
Illinois donations go to Alzheimer's research

The newest grant recipients are Britto Nathan of Eastern Illinois University, Dr. Changiz Geula and Ken Paller of Northwestern University and Virginie Buggia-Prevot of University of Chicago.

Huffington Post
7 Heart-Healthy Behaviors That Could Help You Live Longer

In a related editorial also in JAMA, Dr. Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, M.D., Sc.M., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, noted that the studies show that "the face of ideal cardiovascular health is a young, educated white woman."

Daily Mail (UK)
Browsing for a bit on the side: British wives drive demand for extramarital dating websites with 400,000 logging on each week to have an affair

Chicago cardiologist Dan Fintel, from Northwestern University, said he routinely gave heart patients a sex talk on their last day in the hospital, knowing that it was likely on their minds.

Psych Central
ADHD Diagnoses Up 66 Percent Since 2000

Northwestern University researchers also discovered that specialists, instead of primary care physicians, have begun treating an increasing number of these young patients.

News-Medical
Researchers identify Wnt pathway as new target for scleroderma therapy

A genetic pathway previously known for its role in embryonic development and cancer has been identified as a target for systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, therapy. The finding, discovered by a cross-disciplinary team led by John Varga, MD, John and Nancy Hughes Distinguished Professor of Rheumatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, was recently published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.

Health Canal
Live Surgery Broadcast Brings High School Students into the Operating Room for a Unique Science Lesson

“It’s one thing to talk with young people about a career as a nurse or surgeon or anesthesiologist, but it’s another to see what those roles are like in real life,” said Marsh, who is also an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Wall Street Journal
The New Retirement Resorts

"People are getting more creative in how they're spending their senior years," says geriatrician Lee Lindquist of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Even as they start to develop medical problems, "they don't want to spend their time in one room every day."

Associated Press via Washington Post
HEALTHBEAT: Doctors seek to wean kidney transplant patients off anti-rejection drugs for life

“I’m so lucky,” says the 47-year-old Porter, who stumbled across the research at Chicago’s Northwestern University. Porter was able to quit her pills last summer, a year after her transplant, and says, “I feel amazing.”

UPI
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/03/19/US-ADHD-diagnoses-rocket-upward/UPI-86561332202320/?spt=hs&or=hn

Dr. Craig Garfield of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and a pediatrician at Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital said the 66 percent increase in physician-diagnosed ADHD cases in the past decade means it is now "a common diagnosis among children and teens."

AMED News
Hospital report cards fall flat at improving patient outcomes

Patients' existing relationships with physicians, and doctors' admission preferences, tend to win out over quality data on a website, said Susan Nedza, MD, adjunct professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Discovery News
Are Some Brains Better at Learning Languages?

But that finding only applies to learning tonal languages like Mandarin, said study author Patrick Wong, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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EMax Health
Seven ways to curb heart disease: Few can do it

Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, M.D., Sc.M., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, writes in an accompanying editorial that prevention is the most important part of improving public health.

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US News & World Report
Following Heart-Healthy Behaviors May Lengthen Your Life

There are many ways to improve the cardiovascular health of Americans, according to an accompanying editorial by Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Chicago Tribune
Publish and perish?

We know that some researchers believe it is already too late, that enough details have circulated among scientists for them to deduce the recipe for the virus. "The present decision to stop publication is closing the barn door after the horse has bolted," Northwestern University biology professor Robert Lamb tells us.

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WebMD
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20120316/too-few-keep-heart-healthy-habits

“With diseases such as [heart disease and stroke], the majority of events occur in the large proportion of the population with average or only mildly elevated levels of risk factors, rather than in the small subset with marked elevations,” Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, writes in an editorial that accompanies the study.

American Medical News
Hospitals find success in slashing health disparities

"It's important to recognize that collecting data on race, ethnicity, language, disability and gender is foundational to addressing disparities and to doing interventions to reduce them," said Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD, research associate professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Institute for Healthcare Studies in Chicago. 

ABC News
Adult Acne on Rise as Women Age and Hormones Kick In

Women are also disproportionately affected, compared with men, according to Schlosser, who is assistant professor of dermatology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

UPI
Neighborhood can improve heart health

Study author Erin Unger, a medical student at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., said the study involved 6,047 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, with baseline measurements of cholesterol, body mass index, diet, physical activity, fasting glucose, blood pressure and smoking.

Med Page Today
Meeting Heart Guidelines Can Cut Early Deaths

"These findings are consistent with recent analyses demonstrating similar marked reductions in short-term mortality and 20-year fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular disease event rates with higher numbers of ideal cardiovascular health metrics," according to Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, of Northwestern University in Chicago.

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U.S. News & World Report
14 Heart Numbers Everyone Should Know

"Sodium causes retention of fluid within the circulation, and if you're sodium-sensitive, it expands your blood volume and can contribute to high blood pressure, stroke, and other heart disease," explains Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Parenting
How to talk to your doctor

Jot down any medications and supplements your child is taking, even multivitamins, OTC allergy meds, or the occasional pain reliever. Better yet, bring in photos or samples of them. “You wouldn’t believe how many parents come in and say ‘Uh, I don’t know the name of the medicine my kid is on—it’s the pink one,’ ” says Anita Chandra-Puri, M.D., a pediatrician with Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, in Chicago, and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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CNN en Espanol
Transplant patients can live without immunosupressants

“Este ha sido el santo grial de los trasplantes de órganos durante más de la mitad de un siglo”, dijo el médico Joseph Leventhal, un cirujano de trasplantes en el Hospital Northwestern Memorial y coautor del estudio.

FOX Chicago
Sugary Beverages May Pose Heart Risk: Dr. Yancy

If you can't get through the day without a couple of sugary beverages, you could be putting your heart health at risk. Dr. Clyde Yancy, Chief of Cardiology at Northwestern Medicine is here to explain.

Chicago Tribune
Late flu season hits Illinois

"We are seeing more patients with influenza in the past few weeks, but we haven't seen the volume that we usually see," said general internist Dr. Daniel Dunham, an associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Chicago Tribune
Northwestern HealthCare to open new offices

All of the physicians will have faculty appointments at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

NBC 5

Mark Reinecke, MD, psychiatry, was interviewed on NBC-5 regarding borderline personality disorder.   

Baltimore Sun
Symptoms of the flu and what you can do

Do the things your mother told you to do, said Dr. Daniel Dunham, general internist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. That is: Drink plenty of fluids, don't smoke or drink alcohol, get rest.

iVillage
Which is Worse? Comfort Food

"The mozzarella sticks are not a great choice, but four sticks have only around 500 calories," says Herrington of the Center for Lifestyle Medicine at Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation.

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Crain's Chicago Business
News Briefs

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is mentioned in Crain’s Chicago Business regarding the annual U.S. News & World Report medical school rankings. The Feinberg School is ranked 18th for research and 27th for primary care.  

Crain's Chicago Business
Northwestern doctors' group preps $70 million debt refinance

The faculty foundation has close ties not only to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, which includes Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, but also Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

EmpowHer
The Secret to a Healthy Heart

According to the results of a new study conducted by Northwestern Medicine, the lifestyle choices that you make as a young adult have a direct correlation on your risk of heart disease as you age.

Becker's Hospital Review
Northwestern to Open 5 Physician Offices in Chicago's Northern Suburbs

Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has announced to open five physician offices — including roughly 120 physicians — in the city's northern suburbs. 

The system's plan to open another office in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood brings in a sixth new office location under the plan. Suburban offices will be located in Evanston, Highland Park, Glenview, Grayslake and Deerfield, Ill. 

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American Medical News
Hospitals find success in slashing health disparities

"It's important to recognize that collecting data on race, ethnicity, language, disability and gender is foundational to addressing disparities and to doing interventions to reduce them," said Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD, research associate professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Institute for Healthcare Studies in Chicago. "Collecting data is not sufficient. It's necessary, but you need to use the data ... to target health disparities."

Crain's Chicago Business
Northwestern Memorial to expand in northern suburbs

The new offices will be staffed by about 100 doctors from Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, a subsidiary of Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial, and 20 doctors from the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, an affiliate of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Female First
Exercising in your 20s leaves you healthier in your 40s

Kiang Liu, a professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine told the Daily Mail: "The problem is few adults can maintain ideal cardiovascular health factors as they age.

Pakistan News Service
Stem cells beat kidney rejection

The study, carried out at the University of Louisville and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, involved eight patients.

Times of India
Stem-cell jab will help cut risk of organ rejection

Joseph Leventhal, at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said, "The preliminary results from this ongoing study are exciting and may have a major impact on organ transplantation in the future."

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E! Science News
New transplant method may allow kidney recipients to live life free of anti-rejection medication

Northwestern Medicine® and University of Louisville researchers are partnering on a clinical trial to study the use of donor stem cell infusions that have been specially engineered to "trick" the recipients' immune system into thinking the donated organ is part of the patient's natural self, thus gradually eliminating or reducing the need for anti-rejection medication.

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Health Jockey
New stem cell transplant procedure may not require anti-rejection drugs

A new research by scientists at the Northwestern University has unleashed the hidden power of stem cells in aiding successful kidney transplant procedures without the need for immunosuppressive drugs.

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Chicago Tribune
An opera standout's song of courage

A Northwestern neurosurgeon, Dr. Bernard Bendok, suggested that Marante undergo MRI scans while listening to and thinking about opera music to identify which regions of the brain she used to process music.

Chicago Sun-Times
Sen. Kirk’s brain swelling subsides; doctors reattach skull section

“The swelling in Sen, Kirk’s brain has subsided and this morning we were able to reattach the portion of his skull that had been removed following his stroke,” said Dr. Richard Fessler, neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and professor of neurological surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Health Canal
Opera Student Recovers from Brain Surgery, Returns to Singing

“An AVM is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in the brain which is often undetected, yet can be life threatening causing serious complications including stroke, brain hemorrhage or seizure,” explained Bendok, who is also an associate professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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USA Today
Peyton Manning's neck stronger but risks remain, doctors say

Wellington K. Hsu, a spine surgeon and assistant professor at Northwestern University, says the fused area should not be vulnerable.

FOXNews.com
More evidence links tanning beds to skin cancer

"This is a very large, well-done study that supports prior findings that indoor tanning is associated with developing melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma," said June Robinson, a research professor of dermatology at Northwestern University in Chicago, who was not involved in the study.

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CNN.com
Scientists offer a glimpse of life without immune-suppressing drugs

"This has been the holy grail for solid organ transplantation for more than half a century," said Dr. Joseph Leventhal, a transplant surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and study co-author.

FOXNews.com
Stem cell research allows for mismatched kidney transplants

“It’s the holy grail of transplantation,” said lead author Dr. Joseph Leventhal, transplant surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and associate professor of surgery and director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Ill.

Chicago Tribune
What women can do about thinning hair

Dr. Maria Colavincenzo, a dermatologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has a practice that specializes in preserving those precious strands — especially in cases of androgenetic alopecia, a hereditary condition that causes hair loss, mainly on the top and crown of the scalp.

Shape Magazine
Proof That Healthy Living Really Does Pay Off

Now, a new study from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine finds that living a healthy lifestyle in your 20s leads to a HUGE health payoff in your 40s and demonstrates that your lifestyle is far more powerful than your genetics.

MSNBC.com
Daylight saving time shift is tougher for night owls

Though some argue that the time change is "just an hour," that amount of time is not insignificant, said Phyllis Zee, a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., who is president of the Sleep Research Society. 

WFLD-TV (FOX Chicago)
Not Too Late for a Flu Shot: Dr. Zich

The flu is hitting the Chicago-area late this season, but it’s not too late to get a flu shot. Northwestern Medicine's Dr. Dave Zich, an emergency room physician, joined us with some advice.

TheHospitalist.org
Pioneering Hospitalists Earn Masters of Hospital Medicine Designation

The third honoree, Mark Williams, MD, FACP, MHM, professor and chief of the division of hospital medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, now leads one of the largest hospitalist practices in an academic setting, but he also founded one of the first hospitalist groups at an inner city public hospital, Grady Hospital in Atlanta, in 1998.

News-Medical.net
Scientists develop nanocombinatorics that they have used to direct stem cell differentiation

"With further development, researchers might be able to use this approach to prepare cells of any lineage on command," said Chad A. Mirkin, who led the work.

Becker's Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management Review
200 Spine Surgeons & Specialists to Know

Richard G. Fessler, MD (Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago). Dr. Fessler, professor of neurosurgery at Northwestern, was the first physician in the United States to perform a human embryonic spinal cord transplant in 1997.

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Sheboygan Press
Any which way you slice it!

Some people, especially some African Americans and others who are genetically predisposed, are more salt-sensitive, says Linda Van Horn, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association and a research dietitian with the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

HealthCanal.com
Returning Patients to Active Lives with Joint Revision Surgery

When she began to recover and regain her strength, the resident of Hammond, Ind., found her way to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago where she sought help from Lalit Puri, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon with expertise in joint revision surgery. With his guidance and support, Maurice returned to the operating room to have hip revision surgery and start her journey back to an active life.

HealthCanal.com
As Flu Season Peaks, Experts Say it's Not Too Late to Get a Flu Shot

“This year’s flu season is a classic example of the unpredictability of the flu virus,” said Catherine Cheng, MD, an internist with Northwestern Integrative Medicine. “It’s important for people to know that we’re not out of the woods just yet.”

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Philadelphia Inquirer
Personal Health: Chemo brain, stem cells and more

If so, it would take years of additional research to learn how to use the cells, said Teresa Woodruff, fertility preservation chief at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Daily Mail (UK)
How eating less and exercising more in your 20s will lead to a healthier 40s (no surprises there)

Kiang Liu, a professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said: 'The problem is few adults can maintain ideal cardiovascular health factors as they age.

EmpowHer.com
Could Your Joint Pain be Rheumatoid Arthritis?

You can hear more of Beth Anne’s story and how modern medicine has made it a positive one, as explained by her doctor, rheumatologist Calvin Brown, from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

LiveScience.com
Young Adult Behaviors Key to Later Heart Health

"In this study, even people with a family history of heart problems were able to have a low cardiovascular disease risk profile, if they started living a healthy lifestyle when they were young," said Kiang Liu, a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.

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USA Today
Bread is a big source of Americans' salt intake, too

Some people, especially some African Americans and others who are genetically predisposed, are more salt-sensitive, says Linda Van Horn, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association and a research dietitian with the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

Red Eye
What's your diet DNA?

Years ago, McDonald might have picked up a diet book with a regimented eating plan or been put on a strict exercise schedule by a doctor. But now, experts such as Dr. Robert Kushner at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are trying to develop a new way of tackling the problem.

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Chicagoist.com
Northwestern Doctor Wants To Start Clinic For Transgender Kids

CBS Chicago reports that Dr. Joel Frader, a professor at Northwestern University, wants to model the clinic after the Gender Management Service at Children’s Hospital Boston.

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The Atlantic
Professional Help: Tips for Parents of LGBT Kids on Preventing Suicide

This week on Professional Help, Brian Mustanski, that study's lead author and a psychologist at Northwestern University, shares five ways parents can show that they care and shield their gay children from suicide in the process.

WBBM Radio (Chicago)
Survey: 20 Percent Of Body Piercings Lead To Infections

“(The infection rates) kind of tend to hover around 20 percent,” said Dr. Jamie Holbrook, a dermatologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “Any area can become infected.”

Triblocal.com (Orland Park)
Jerling students celebrate 'awesome gift'

Friday’s event brought out several speakers including Dr. George Chiampas of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, who is on the medical staff of the Blackhawks, Northwestern University and various national teams and events.

The Times of India
Cheating men likelier to die of heart attack

Chicago cardiologist Dan Fintel, from Northwestern University, said he routinely gave heart patients a sex talk on their last day in the hospital, knowing that it was likely on their minds.

MedicalXPress.com
Heart healthy choices early on pay off later

“The problem is few adults can maintain ideal cardiovascular health factors as they age,” said Kiang Liu, first author of the study.

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The Daily Northwestern
Northwestern researchers improve understanding of bacterial detection

The team, led by Feinberg School of Medicine Prof. Christian Stehlik, narrowed down the mechanism from 22 possible proteins to a protein called NLRP7.

iVillage.com
10 Signs You Have Cyberchondria

"Patients coming in with headaches they're convinced are brain tumor is extremely common. Or they'll research symptoms that could be two different things and jump to the most crippling syndrome, even if it's clear they don't have it," says Rahul K. Khare, MD, ER physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and assistant professor at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

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The Boston Globe
Having your muffin and eating it too

Daniel Kirschenbaum, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Northwestern University, took issue with Willett’s basic premise. Eating a low-fat diet is a time-tested way to reduce weight, he says. And for people to lose weight, they have to enjoy what they’re eating, he adds.

The Sacramento Bee
Remote-control surgery grows, despite inconclusive evidence

"The marketing largely has sort of suggested that (with robot-assisted surgery) everything is better: better potency, better continence," said Dr. William Catalona, director of the clinical prostate cancer program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern Universityat Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "Actually, that turns out to be untrue."

Reuters
Department of Defense Renews Commitment to Scleroderma Research

John Varga, M.D., director, Scleroderma Program, and the John and Nancy Hughes Professor in the Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago. Dr. Varga is chair of the Scleroderma Foundation's National Medical Advisory Board, and received the organization's Doctor of the Year Award in 2006.

WFLD-TV (FOX Chicago)
Prepare Teens for Spring Break: Dr. Chandra

Spring break season is near, and before your teen or college student hits the beach, you might want to talk to them about ways to stay safe and healthy while they're away. Northwestern Medicine's Dr. Anita Chandra, a pediatrician at Children's Memorial Hospital, joined us with some advice.

Trib Local Lake Forest
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Honored for Commitment to Community

That commitment took center stage recently when the collaborative efforts of Daniel Derman, MD, president, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group and Posh Charles, director, external affairs and community health, were recognized by the Chicago Healthcare Executives Forum (CHEF) with an honorable mention award.

Becker's Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management Review
10 Spine Surgeons & Specialists Engaging in Spinal Biologics Research and Development

Wellington Hsu, MD (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago). Dr. Hsu is a spine surgeon at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine with a special interest in trauma and minimally invasive instrumentation.

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Chicago Sun-Times
Study: Women have rare egg-producing stem cells

A key next step is to see whether other laboratories can verify the work. If so, it would take years of additional research to learn how to use the cells, said Teresa Woodruff, fertility preservation chief at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

Becker's Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management Review
Dr. Roger Charms Travels With U.S. Soccer Team to Spain

Roger Charms, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, will serve as team physician for the U.S. U-23 Women's National Soccer Team during their upcoming games in Spain, according to a Lake Forester report.

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The Washington Post
Study says women's ovaries harbor rare egg-producing stem cells, a step in fertility research

A key next step is to see whether other laboratories can verify the work. If so, then it would take years of additional research to learn how to use the cells, said Teresa Woodruff, fertility preservation chief at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Chicago Tribune
Low birth weight may increase autism risk, study finds

After studying 3,715 pairs of twins that include one twin with an ASD, Northwestern researcher Molly Losh learned that a weight difference of at least 15 percent or 400 grams made the smaller twin three times more likely to have an ASD.

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National Public Radio
When Body Piercings Go Bad

"I think piercing can be quite dangerous, actually," says Anne Laumann, a professor of dermatology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, who was a co-author of the review. "I would not encourage it in a teenager."

The Wall Street Journal
Tight Ties, Killer Heels: Clothes Make the Fashion Victims

About 20% of body piercings develop a bacterial infection, according to a review by Northwestern University dermatologists published in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology this month.

Crain's Chicago Business
Workwear for soon-to-be moms, an online connection to personal assistants, and more

Created by north suburban child psychiatrist Eitan Schwarz, this iPad app became available last month in Apple's iTunes store. The app is designed to guide children to websites with safe, high-quality content.

CBS 2 Chicago
Mild Winter Could Lead To Early Allergy Season

Allergist Dr. Anju Peters said the weather will impact allergies this year., but he said right now, people like Andjulis are more likely suffering from indoor allergens.

Reuters
UnitedHealth Group and Comcast Launch Pilot to Evaluate First-of-Its-Kind Video-on-Demand Programming to Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes in Knoxville, Tenn.

The VOD study is designed by Ronald T. Ackermann, M.D., MPH, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who conducted the original Diabetes Prevention Program translational pilot and is considered a national expert in the prevention and control of common chronic illnesses.

SmartPlanet.com
Infectious proteins on the brain: Alzheimer's and prions

As Jim Schnabel recently described in a great overview for the Dana Foundation, Konrad Beyreuther of the University of Heidelberg noticed in the early 1990s that beta amyloid forms short oligomers, and William Klein of Northwestern University later demonstrated that these oligomers are directly toxic to neurons in ways that the larger fibrils in the plaques are not.

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CBS 2 Chicago
Chicago Doctor Wants To Develop Clinic For Transgender Children

Dr. Joel Frader, who is also a professor at Northwestern University, made the remarks following a report published Monday in the medical journal Pediatrics, which indicated that a growing number of teens and even younger kids are experiencing gender identity disorder.

TribLocal.com
Northwestern University program gives high school girls a chance to work with scientists and doctors

The program’s goal is to inspire and prepare young women to go to college and pursue careers in science and medicine, said Teresa Woodruff, its founder and the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

TribLocal.com
Science Connections: Healing Cells May Contribute to the Severity of MS, Northwestern Researchers Find

Immunologist Maggie Walker is helping to explain the role of mast cells in autoimmune diseases. Walker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Brown Lab run by Melissa Brown, a principle investigator at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Lake County News-Sun
Mom's heart attack was lifestyle wake-up call

It’s “uncommon, but not unheard of” for women still in their menstrual years to have a heart attack, according to Dr. Ian Cohen, medical director of cardiology at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.

KOWB1290.com (Wyoming)
Why Haven't Children Slept Well for More Than 100 Years?

Dr. Marc Weissbluth, an expert on childhood sleep problems and a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, says to “watch your child, and not the clock.”

Souting Magazine
The health benefits of getting a good night's sleep

Sleep is restorative for the brain and body. Like exercise and nutrition, it is essential for good physical and mental health, says Dr. Phyllis Zee, a professor of neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

PscyhCentral.com
Mice Study Suggests Caution with Alzheimer’s Drugs

“Let’s proceed with caution,” said Robert Vassar, Ph.D., professor of cell and molecular biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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The New York Times
Kickoffs and Concussions, Reviewing 2011 Numbers

“We just got the data recently,” said Batjer, the co-chair of NFL Head, Neck & Spine Committee and department chair of neurological surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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Chicago Tribune
Voice of the People, Feb. 18

David Baker, MD, chief, general internal medicine, wrote a letter to the editor regarding the ongoing debate about whether or not employers should be mandated to cover contraceptive costs in medical coverage. Baker comments that if employers are going to provide health insurance, they must not choose to provide only those services they believe in at the expense of the beliefs of those they employ.

HealthCanal.com
Hope for Afghan Babies at Risk

Craig Garfield, M.D., well knows the value of the blankets, used by paramedics to warm newborn babies and by mountain climbers who camp overnight in frigid outdoor conditions.

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ABCNews.com
Cannon Suffered Blood Clots in Lungs, Enlarged Heart

Dr. Patrick McCarthy, director of Northwestern University's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, told ABCNews.com that blood thinners will typically make a clot "go from the size of a golf ball and down to a marble before it, hopefully, disappears."

WebMD.com
9 Tips Before Getting Your Body Pierced

The most common problem is infection, affecting up to 20% of all piercings, according to a new review by dermatologists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology.

TribLocal.com
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Physician travels to Spain with U.S. Women's Soccer

Roger N. Chams, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, is traveling to Spain this month with the U.S. U-23 Women’s National Soccer team.

AllVoices.com
Disturbed sleep Alzheimer's indicator

Aerobic exercise has been found by researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to dramatically improve the quality and duration of sleep.

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USA Today
NFL: 2011 kickoff rule change cut concussions in half

Dr. Hunt Batjer, co-chair of NFL Head, Neck & Spine Committee, speaking at a league health and safety forum, said Wednesday that while the rule change minimized concussions, it "paradoxically" did not affect other injuries, like ankle sprains.

CBS News
Doctors to vaccine refusers: Go somewhere else

"Vaccines have done more than anything else over the past 100 years to help improve the health of children," said Dr. Scott Goldstein.

CBS 2 Chicago
There Are Steps You Can Take To Minimize The Stress Of Commuting

Health psychologist Greg Petersen of Northwestern says all that time spent either in a train car or on the expressway can lead to mental health issues down the road.

WGN-TV
Depression App

Dr. David Mohr, depression researcher, Northwestern Medicine: "About 10% of Americans experience a mood disorder, so it's a large problem that translates into 30 million people needing treatment in any given year."

WFLD-TV (FOX Chicago)
Hoarding a Mental Illness: Dr. Dresner

Dr. Nehama Dresner, a psychiatrist from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, joined us to talk about the causes and symptoms of hoarding.

The Daily Northwestern
Northwestern professor co-authors study on LGBT suicide risk factors

Dr. Brian Mustanski, professor of medical social sciences at Feinberg, led the two-and-a-half-year study, the first-ever longitudinal study (a correlational study involving repeated observation over an extended period of time) examining factors that contribute to suicide in LGBT youth.

MSN Health and Fitness
Treatment Advances Improve the Odds for Heart Failure Patients

Dr. Clyde Yancy, past president of the American Heart Association and chief of cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, seconded that notion, pointing to what he sees as "the edge of a new dawn" in which advances in treatment will enable clinicians to "take the heft, the drama and the 'failure' out of heart failure."

MSN Health and Fitness
When Your Body Attacks Itself

"It's not uncommon for a drug to stop working after a while," says rheumatologist Eric Ruderman, M.D., a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

National Football Post
Moving kickoff Line cut concussions in half for 2011

Dr. Hunt Batjer, the co-chair of NFL Head, Neck & Spine Committee and department chair of neurological surgery at Northwestern University, said Wednesday that concussions on kickoffs were cut in half in the 2011 season.

InsideHigherEd.com
Ethics in Bioethics

Another critic, Alice Dreger, a bioethics professor at Northwestern University, said McGee had fallen down on the job of disclosure. “All this seems like a joke. This is typical McGee. Claims contrast each other and timelines and facts do not seem to make sense,” she said.

Hispanically Speaking News
Bullying a Strong Risk Factor for Suicide in Gay Youth: Study.

Still, the research is the first to show what happens over time to teens who are bullied and victimized, said study co-author Brian Mustanski, an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Department of Medical Social Sciences.

Business2Community.com
3 Mobile Apps That Make You More Social

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is working on a mobile phone called Mobilyze! with software that may help prevent or ameliorate depression. The phone offers a powerful new level of support for people who have depression and intervenes to help them change their behavior in real time.

BusinessGhana.com
Family support critical for gay youth

Brian Mustanski, associate professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said adolescents who know they can talk to their parents about problems and know they have friends who care about them are less likely than others to consider ending their lives.

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Chicago Tribune
Increase in touchbacks led to decrease in concussions on kickoffs

Hunt Batjer delivered the good news Wednesday at Halas Hall during an NFL Health and Safety forum for coaches and players from nearly 50 area high schools.

Chicago Tribune
CDC reports an 'epidemic of multiple pregnancies'

"It was a big rise, and we needed to understand what caused it and respond," said Dr. Ralph Kazer, chief of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "The clear focus is on the well-being of the babies. If you have twins, you're more likely to deliver early.

The Atlantic
Study of the Day: Babies Are Smart, Can Grasp Basics of Physics Early

Researchers led by Northwestern University psychology professor Susan J. Hespos reviewed the scientific literature on infants to determine if, like adults, they can predict the behavior of materials that they interact with.

Chicago Magazine
100 Most Powerful Chicagoans

Marc Weissbluth, MD, pediatrics, is listed in the March issue of Chicago Magazine as one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Chicago.

WFLD-TV (FOX Chicago)
Cyberchondria, or Self-Diagnosis Using the Internet, an Increasingly Common Issue: Dr. Khare

When you get sick, do you turn to Google to diagnosis your symptoms? If so, you're not alone. A diagnosis from "Dr. Google" is something Dr. Rahul Khare from Northwestern Medicine sees every day.

American Medical News
Defensive medicine seeping into physician training, study says

Educators should reframe such conversations to focus on reducing liability risk by improving patient safety and communication, said Kevin O'Leary, MD, lead study author and associate professor and associate chief of Northwestern's Division of Hospital Medicine.

TheIndyChannel.com (via CNN)
Family Support Helps Curb Suicide Among Gay Youth

"A major risk factor for suicide among these young people is to have experienced some kind of victimization regarding their sexuality," said lead author Brian Mustanski, associate professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg Schoool of Medicine.

Star Community Newspapers (Texas)
TRMC-Sunnyvale offers tips for reducing the risk of heart disease

“Even for our patients with advanced disease, there are so many more options now available to us,” said Clyde Yancy, M.D., past president of the American Heart Association and chief of the Division of Cardiology and the Magerstadt Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

The Huffington Post
Family Support Helps Prevent Suicide Among Gay Youth, Study Says

But researcher and clinical psychologist Brian Mustanski suggests parents should express support instead of judgment to news of their child's sexuality, according to the Northwestern University media release.

FloridaToday.com
Dr. Anita Saluja: Couples can pair up on examinations

According to a research study from Northwestern University published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, couples who reported strong bonds were three times more likely to perform skin exams than those who weren’t as close.

Highland Park News
Northwestern University medical paper details complications of body piercings

“As piercing becomes more popular, the health care community should become familiar with how to remove the jewelry, in the case of an emergency situation, as well as understand piercing complications and related health risks,” said Jaimee Holbrook, M.D. Holbrook is first author of the review article and a second year clinical research fellow in the department of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Medical News Today
Offering New Hope To Heart Failure Patients

"Even for our patients with advanced disease, there are so many more options now available to us," said Clyde Yancy, M.D., past president of the American Heart Association and chief of the Division of Cardiology and the Magerstadt Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

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U.S. News & Wold Report
Bullying a Strong Risk Factor for Suicide in Gay Youth: Study

Still, the research is the first to show what happens over time to teens who are bullied and victimized, said study co-author Brian Mustanski, an associate professor at Northwestern University's Department of Medical Social Sciences.

Chicago Tribune
Study: Family ties cut suicide rate for LGBT youth

As I was talking to Brian Mustanski about his newly released study on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, it occurred to me that most kids who are part of a minority group can rely on support and guidance from parents who are part of the same group.

Chicago Tribune
Doctors caution against overreacting to kids' wetting problems

Daytime wetting is usually caused by "holding," called dysfunctional elimination syndrome, or DES, brought on by inappropriate relaxation of the pelvic floor musculature, said Dr. Earl Cheng, professor of urology at Children's Memorial Hospitaland the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Bladder distention/irritability and constipation follow.

National Public Radio
Family Acceptance Key In Preventing Gay Youths From Considering Suicide

"This is the first data pointing us to where we can act," study author Brian Mustanski tells Shots. "This is the first study to look at the thoughts and behaviors of suicide. It lets us look at what those predictors are."

CNN
Family support a major weapon against suicide among gay youth

“A major risk factor for suicide among these young people is to have experienced some kind of victimization regarding their sexuality,” said lead author Brian Mustanski, associate professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg Schoool of Medicine. 

WTTW
Chicago Tonight

Developed by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the program is one of several tech-based tools to treat depression and other mood disorders. The school says the tools, including medicine bottles that remind you to take your pills, can be more effective than traditional weekly therapy.

MSN Health
Bullying a Strong Risk Factor for Suicide in Gay Youth: Study

Still, the research is the first to show what happens over time to teens who are bullied and victimized, said study co-author Brian Mustanski, an associate professor at Northwestern University's Department of Medical Social Sciences.

Bloomberg.com
Harvard Mapping My DNA Turns Scary

This is just one of several animal studies suggesting that the JAK2 variant contributes directly to blood disorders, said John Crispino, a professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who studies the gene. 

Oak Leaves
Why are some 80-plus-year-old seniors as sharp as people 30 years younger?

“As you age, things change,” said Emily J. Rogalski, an assistant research professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “Your memory gets worse, your muscles decline. What we noticed is that sometimes people don’t fit this criteria. They are over 80 and still cognitively sharp.”

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Yahoo! Finance
Heart Failure Patients Have New Hope

"Even for our patients with advanced disease, there are so many more options now available to us," said Clyde Yancy, M.D., past president of the American Heart Association and chief of the Division of Cardiology and the Magerstadt Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Yahoo! News

The best way for parents to determine if a child is getting enough sleep is to "watch your child, and not the clock," said Dr. Marc Weissbluth, an expert on childhood sleep problems and a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

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Chicago Sun-Times
Why are some 80-plus-year-old seniors as sharp as people 30 years younger?

“As you age, things change,” said Emily J. Rogalski, an assistant research professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The Atlantic
A Western Diet High in Sugars and Fat Could Contribute to ADHD

Dr. J. Gordon Millichap, a neurologist, and Michelle M. Yee, a nurse-practitioner, both researchers at Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University in Chicago, reviewed 70 studies dating back to 1976 on the use of diet and dietary supplements for the treatment of ADHD.

Northwest Indiana Times
HIV/AIDS prevention in Chicago brings testing to drugstores and barbershops

In some cases when people have never been tested, it's because they've never perceived themselves at risk, said Dr. Robert Hirschtick of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a specialist in HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases. 

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Chicago Tribune
We could stand to do a lot less sitting

On Tuesday, while standing, I called Lynette Craft, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who studies sitting.

The Daily Northwestern
New study could change Evanston's procedure for testing lead in tap water

Lead could delay brain development in children and even cause death, said Helen Binns, a pediatrics professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

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WLS-TV (ABC Chicago)
Healthbeat Report: Autoimmune Diseases

"We dont know what the factors are. We dont know if its something going on in the environment, if it's the foods we eat, activities, stress so that is still a big mystery," said Dr. Calvin Brown, rheumatologist, Northwestern Hospital.

KABC-TV (Los Angeles)
Inducing labor early discouraged by hospitals

Northwestern University's Dr. William Grobman says it's a matter of benefit versus risk.

ScienceNews.org
BPA fosters diabetes-promoting changes

“I don’t think BPA alone will cause type 2 diabetes,” says Franck Mauvais-Jarvis of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

iHealthBeat.org
EHR Data Not Ready for Prime Time, Studies Show

Jason Matthias -- the lead author and a research fellow in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University -- said he was confident that every Pap test ordered during the study period had been documented as structured data. 

FierceHealthcare.com
Docs not always honest with patients

The lack of honesty and openness with patients should serve as a "welcome wake-up call" to healthcare providers, Linda Emanuel, a medical ethicist from Northwestern University, told Medscape.

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Los Angeles Times
Soy pills not helpful for breast cancer prevention, study says

"Although soy-based foods appear to have a protective effect, we are not seeing the same effect with supplementation using isolated components of soy, so the continued testing of soy supplements is likely not worthwhile," the lead author of the study, Dr. Seema A. Khan, a professor of surgery, said in a news release.

WFLD-TV (FOX Chicago)
Gluten Free Right for Celiac Patients, Not for Everyone: Dr. Pandolfino

These days many Chicago restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores are offering gluten-free products, and you may be wondering why. Dr. John Pandolfino, a gastroenterologist at Northwestern Medicine, joined us to explain.

Journal of the American Medical Association
Heart Disease and Stroke Deaths Fall, But Some Fear a Reverse in the Trend

Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, a coauthor of the report and chair of the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, said the decreases in cardiovascular disease and stroke mortality rates over the past few decades may make individuals think the war on these conditions is being won, but such optimism could be premature.

Slate.com
Can Smartphones Cure Depression? Probably Not.

Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is in the midst of developing a trio of technologies to help users manage tough times, according to Kurzweil AI.

MedPageToday.com
Dual Imaging Catches Risk of Second Stroke

The 2009 AHA/ASA scientific statement "redefined the definition of TIA based on MRI imaging results," Mark Alberts, MD, the medical director of the stroke program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, told MedPage Today

CBC News (Canada)
Virtual therapists being developed to treat depression

"These new approaches could offer fundamentally new treatment options to people who are unable to access traditional services or who are uncomfortable with standard psychotherapy," said psychologist David Mohr, director of the new Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies and a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern's Feinberg School.

HarleyMedical.co.uk
Over 65S Reclaim Golden Years With Cosmetic Surgery

Dr Marc Karlan, an associate professor of clinical otolaryngology at Northwestern University, said he is now treating an increasing number of patients in that age group. 

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DailyRX.com
PSA Testing's Next Level

“A persistently rising PSA is a harbinger for life-threatening prostate cancer,” said the study’s senior author, William Catalona, M.D., professor of Urology at Northwestern University.

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