Alzheimer’s Treatment May Lie in the Brain’s Own Cleanup Crew

A new Northwestern Medicine study suggests a promising alternative to current approaches to Alzheimer’s disease: enhancing the brain’s own immune cells to clear amyloid plaques more effectively.

Circadian Rhythms Play a Role in Muscle Repair

Circadian rhythms play a role in how quickly damaged muscles heal, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.

Health Equity Week Encourages Education and Action

Faculty, residents, trainees and students from Feinberg and beyond recently came together for Health Equity Week, a weeklong series of educational programming designed to expose the roots of healthcare inequities and actions to take to address them.

Dirajlal-Fargo and Fant Named Co-Directors of Center for Global Pediatric Health

Northwestern University has announced the launch of the new Center for Global Pediatric Health, a collaboration between the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

Discussing the PREVENT Risk Calculator for Cardiovascular Disease

Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, discusses a new predictive tool to detect who is at higher risk for heart attack, stroke and heart failure.

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