virtually every medical discipline, there are unanswered questions pertaining to women’s health and well-being. Closing the gender gap in medical research may require more than simply including women in research studies, says Teresa Woodruff, executive director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research, recently launched by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Teresa Woodruff
Since the early [...]
“I can’t stand missing school, and I’ll try to keep outside symptoms to a minimum,” said Demmel, 18, of Lincoln Park. Demmel packs cough drops and takes over-the-counter medication so she doesn’t disturb her classmates. And though it’s tolerable to sit through a statistics seminar with a sore throat or slight fever, there are times [...]
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No more vexing problem in education exists today than the achievement gap in this country. The difference between the extremes has rightfully attracted national attention, and one of the most popular policy proposals is to reduce class size - not surprising, since benchmarks are easily measured. In his provocative article for the [...]
“We are talking about something that is absolutely unprecedented,” said Cherilyn Murer, chairwoman of the NIU Board of Trustees.
Central DuPage Hospital and partners want to build a similar $140 million facility in Warrenville. There are five proton therapy facilities in the United States and 24 worldwide.
Although NIU does not have a medical [...]
At the same time, psychiatrists say, his case may help reinforce a key lesson: Stopping antidepressant therapy suddenly can be risky if patients do not follow a doctor’s instructions and don’t report any negative effects.
About one-fifth of people who halt a course of Prozac-like drugs report symptoms associated with a condition known [...]
A growing body of recent research points to the answer: Babies born in the 34th through 36th week of a woman’s pregnancy are at a much higher risk of medical complications than infants delivered at full term, or after 37 weeks. Although most of [...]
Nationwide, 4.6 percent of flu samples tested have shown signs of drug resistance this season, said officials with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In previous years, resistance to the drug hovered below 1 percent of all cases. “We have seen [...]
“This is a dreadful disease, and the profession has failed to offer much in the way of relief for these patients,” said Dr. Douglas Losordo, director of Northwestern University’s Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and principal national investigator for the trial. “Amputation rates are the same now [...]
The new report — a synthesis of seven previously published studies involving 1,366 patients — doesn’t address why acupuncture promotes fertility, which patients benefit or what protocol is optimal. But experts have several ideas. They suggest that the ancient Chinese practice — which [...]
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court sided with a university Tuesday in a fight with a researcher over who owns human cancer tissue.
The justices without comment let stand lower court rulings that said Washington University in St. Louis owns the tissue. Thousands of patients provided lab specimens to Dr. William J. Catalona before he left the [...]
