Mutation Unique to Childhood Kidney Cancer Discovered

A recent study led by Elizabeth Perlman, MD, discovered a new genetic mutation in the most common type of pediatric kidney cancer, Wilms tumor.

Common Heart Medication Doesn’t Work for All

Patients with a specific type of heart failure were less active when taking a commonly prescribed nitrate medication thought to improve exercise capacity, according to a recent study co-authored by Northwestern Medicine scientist Sanjiv Shah, MD.

‘We Are the Clock Fixers’

At the new Circadian Medicine Clinic on the downtown campus, patients get help syncing their body clocks with their environment.

New Roles for Mitochondria Uncovered

A new Northwestern Medicine study led by Navdeep Chandel, PhD, challenges the common understanding that energy production is mitochondria’s most important function.

First PT Exchange Student from Chile Shares his Feinberg Experience

Rodrigo Garrido Cáceres, the first physical therapist exchange student from the University of San Sebastian in Chile, spent six weeks this fall at Feinberg.

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