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My Northwestern Medicine January 17, 2018

Racial and Ethnic Disparities Worsen in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation

Racial and Ethnic Disparities Worsen in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation

A new study finds that racial and ethnic disparities in live donor kidney transplantation have significantly increased over the last two decades, highlighting the need for national efforts to reduce disparities.

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New Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment Launched

The Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment, directed by Peter Penzes, PhD, aims to deepen understanding of the biological bases of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Medical Student Brings Teach for America Experience to Feinberg

Omar Bushara, a first-year MD/MPH student, discusses how spending a year teaching biology on Chicago’s South Side crystallized his interest in public health.

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Feinberg Awarded Fourth AHA Research Center

A newly announced American Heart Association research center will be led by Mary McDermott, MD, and focus on calf muscle pathology in peripheral artery disease.

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Keep Pancreatic Cancer in Mind During January

Al B. Benson III, MD, an oncologist and professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncoloy, answers frequently asked questions about pancreatic cancer during a month of awareness for clinical trials addressing the disease.

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Patient Travels 10,000 Miles to Proton Center

When a patient and his young family arrived from Australia for his brain cancer treatment at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center, Jennifer Jefferis, RN, helped them adjust to life in Chicago.

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