News and Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Institute for Public Health and Medicine.
- 07.12.2024
New Northwestern research shows that being near and having more exposure to urban green space and blue (water) space is linked to lower odds of having coronary artery calcification in middle age.
- 07.09.2024
The 2024 Global Food Allergy Prevention Summit drew clinicians and researchers from around the world to strategize the future of food allergy prevention research.
- 07.05.2024
Circulating protein levels may serve as a biomarker for cardiorespiratory fitness, an important but previously hard-to-measure component of overall health, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.
- 07.03.2024
Vitamin B3 supplements may help people with peripheral artery disease walk farther, according to a Northwestern Medicine-led clinical trial published in Nature Communications.
- 07.02.2024
Kranti Rumalla, a second-year medical student at Feinberg, was the lead author of a study that found racial disparities among patients who were disenrolled from Medicaid coverage after the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
- 07.02.2024
Epidemiologists form the analytical backbone of public health. The Center for Epidemiology and Population Health is drawing on new technologies to expand that work.
- 06.25.2024
A new partnership between ROOTS & WINGS Charitable Foundation and The Osher Center support breast cancer patients through complimentary appointments.
- 06.18.2024
New research offers insights on integrating research-based solutions into pediatric primary care.
- 06.03.2024
Northwestern Medicine scientists have been awarded $17 million to study genetic causes of autism and schizophrenia, with the aim of developing new drugs to treat the conditions.
- 05.29.2024
The surge in RSV cases following the COVID-19 pandemic may have been, in part, caused by increased testing and changes to the RSV genome, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications.
- 05.28.2024
Public Health experts continue to investigate the devastating impact of the opioid epidemic, its roots, consequences, and potential solutions.
- 05.20.2024
In obesity treatments, patients who only received technology assistance were less likely to show weight loss than those who also received help from a human coach, according to a new study.
- 05.08.2024
Semaglutide, sold under brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, can help reduce heart failure symptoms and reduce heart failure hospitalizations in patients with obesity, according to a pair of studies published in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine.
- 04.23.2024
Feinberg investigators have been selected to lead a $15 million American Heart Association research initiative studying the role of inflammation in heart disease.
- 04.22.2024Tara Lagu, MD, MPH, MHM was named a Master in Hospital Medicine by the Society of Hospital Medicine, considered by some to be the “Hall of Fame for hospital medicine.”
- 04.17.2024
A multi-institutional team of investigators have developed a new framework for supporting healthcare providers in implementing polygenic risk score-based testing into primary care settings, according to a recent study published in Nature Medicine.
- 04.12.2024
A recent Northwestern Medicine comparative analysis of national survey results found that one in four U.S. adolescents in grades 9 through 12 reported their sexual identity as non-heterosexual, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.
- 04.09.2024
Health experts from across the state visited Northwestern for the fifth annual Population Health Forum, focusing on maternal health, racial disparities, endemic violence and other pressing public health issues.
- 04.09.2024
The Institute for Public Health and Medicine’s 2024 Population Health Forum welcomed experts from across the state for a day of intense discussion about some of the nation's most urgent public health issues.
- 03.21.2024
U.S. adults with certain socio-demographic and clinical characteristics may have weaker antibody responses to COVID-19 vaccination, according to a recent study published in Nature Communications.
- 03.12.2024
Researchers at Northwestern’s Center for Behavioral Intervention Technology are pursuing the latest advancements in digital mental health to address the growing national crisis.
- 02.28.2024
Lisa Namatame, a first-year Physician Assistant (PA) student, was recently awarded a scholarship from the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration.
- 01.22.2024
A new National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded course is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of contemporary behavioral and social science researchers working in community-engaged research.
- 01.17.2024
Nearly two-thirds of patients with diabetes either discontinued their second-line medication, switched to a different medication class or intensified their treatment, according to a recent study.
- 12.05.2023
Babies of parents who speak a language other than English may be more likely to be unnecessarily hospitalized when visiting the emergency department for high fevers, according to a recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
- 11.28.2023
Individuals born in the U.S. had a higher rate of giving birth prematurely compared to U.S. immigrants, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.
- 11.17.2023
For the first time in 10 years, the American Heart Association has updated the model to predict someone’s risk of developing heart disease.
- 11.13.2023
Nearly everyone can lower their blood pressure, even people currently on blood pressure-reducing drugs, by lowering their sodium intake, according to a new study published in JAMA.
- 11.06.2023
Northwestern University’s new one-year Master of Science in Epidemiology provides students with an accelerated, rigorous education steeped in the very latest epidemiological research.