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Chicago Tribune – March 28th
Original Article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-shocking-nose-study-28-bothmar28,1,87686.story | The little electrical shocks that Wen Li (postdoctoral fellow at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center) gives subjects at her Northwestern University neuroscience lab feel less painful than a bad jolt of static electricity, and more like the mild snap of a rubber band on skin. But getting just seven of those shocks trained people in a new study to distinguish between extremely similar odors, offering a new and perhaps potent way of changing a person's power of perception. Li said she plans to study ways of using conditioning to restore the subjects' original sensitivity to smells. She said that also could allow new therapeutic approaches for PTSD patients, who might benefit from less sensitivity to sensations linked with painful memories. | Chicago Sun-Times – March 11th
| Dr. William Pearce wanted to help soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. So he volunteered his skills as a vascular surgeon for two weeks at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, where many wounded soldiers are taken. Pearce, who runs the vascular surgery department at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, got the idea to go to Ramstein after doing a similar two-week stint at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he saw "not a single injury you'd see in civilian practice." | |
CNN -- March 3rd
Original Article: www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/03/healthmag.hysterectomy/ | Too Many Hysterectomies? One-third of all women get a hysterectomy before they turn 60. Some experts think two-thirds of them don't need it. If you ever face this surgery, "ideally, you'll have time to consider all your options," says Lauren Streicher, M.D., a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University. | |
The Wall Street Journal – February 27th
Original Article: online.wsj.com/article/SB120407058194994907.html?mod=googlenews_wsj | | The analysis, led by Charles L. Bennett, an oncologist and medical professor at Northwestern University, looked at 51 clinical trials with 13,611 patients to examine survival. Overall, the analysis showed patients being treated with the drugs had about a 10% higher risk of dying than patients not receiving the drugs, a finding Dr. Bennett said was "statistically significant." The risk of venous thromboembolism, or blood clots, was looked at in 38 studies that included 8,172 patients. Overall, those studies found an increased blood-clot risk of 57% among patients receiving the anti-anemia drugs. | |
US News – February 21st
Original Article: health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080221/awareness-of-heart-attack-signs-lags-in-us.htm | Too many Americans are not aware of all the warning signs of a heart attack, and the percentage who know what to do when one is suspected is not as high as it could be, a survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds. "It is such a low percentage," said Dr. Martha Daviglus, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association and a professor of preventive medicine and medicine at Northwestern University. "Maybe it is because they are unaware or misinformed. Or maybe it has to do with going to the emergency room of a hospital, thinking, 'We don't have any money, we'll have to pay something'." |
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