Renowned Pulmonologist and Accomplished Clinical Educator Named Inaugural Director of Center for Bedside Medicine

Brian Garibaldi, MD, MEHP, professor of Medicine and of Physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine and the inaugural director of the new Center for Bedside Medicine at Northwestern.

Novel Pathway Explains the Escalation of Fear Responses

Scientists have discovered a neuronal pathway involved in how the brain encodes the transition to high-intensity fear response behaviors required for survival, according to a recent study.

Outsmarting Chemo-Resistant Ovarian Cancer

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the Achilles heel of chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer — its hunger for cholesterol — and how to sneakily use that to destroy it.

Calming Neurotransmitter Can Also Be Excitatory

A neurotransmitter previously thought to only calm neurons may also play a role in waking them up, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study, a discovery which upends conventional theories of how the neurotransmitter works in the brain.

Central DuPage Hospital Completes 400th Robotic-Assisted Bronchoscopy

The Interventional Pulmonology team at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital achieved another milestone with the completion of their 400th robotic-assisted bronchoscopy.

TT-Maze Procedure Creates Scars on the Heart to Stop Erratic Heart Beats

The Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute team at Palos Hospital used the minimally invasive total thoracoscopic modified maze procedure to help a woman whose heart would beat at 180 beats per minute for hours.

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