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My Northwestern Medicine July 14, 2021

Heart Failure Risks Start Young

Heart Failure Risks Start Young

Risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes and smoking conferred greater risk of heart failure in young and middle-aged individuals when compared with older individuals, according to a recent study.

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Predicting Which Patients Will Discontinue Breast Cancer Therapy

A Northwestern Medicine study has found that women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer were more likely to discontinue hormone therapy early due to poor quality of life-related outcomes.

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Medical Students Establish Disability Advocacy Coalition

Elizabeth Adams, a first-year medical student, and Trisha Kaundinya, a first-year student in Feinberg’s MD/MPH Program, are the co-founders and co-presidents of Feinberg’s Disability Advocacy Coalition in Medicine.

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Muscle’s Smallest Building Blocks Disappear After Stroke

In a new study, Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab researchers have discovered that, in an attempt to adapt to this impairment, muscles actually lose sarcomeres — their smallest, most basic building blocks.

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Pandemic Puts Lung Transplants on Track to Double in Volume

COVID-19 helped fuel an increase in demand for lung transplants, and members of the vast Northwestern Medicine lung transplant team have worked tirelessly to meet that need. Here's how they did it.

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Team NM Logs More Than 1,300 Volunteer Hours in Spring

Nearly 400 Northwestern Medicine employees donated their time and talent at 15 volunteer events.

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