News and Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Institute for Public Health and Medicine.
- 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.
- 10.27.2023
Northwestern University has been awarded a $24 million grant to standardize measurement tools used to evaluate childhood health nationwide as part of the National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.
- 10.13.2023
Transgender women and Black gay and bisexual men in Chicago are nearly twice as likely to contract syphilis at some point in their lives as white gay men, according to a new study.
- 10.12.2023
A new Northwestern Medicine study has found obesity before pregnancy is the root cause of future cardiovascular disease, rather than pregnancy complications.
- 10.10.2023
Combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor with standard chemotherapy improved quality of life for patients with advanced stomach cancer or esophageal cancer compared to chemotherapy alone, according to recent findings published in The Journal of Clinical Oncology.
- 09.26.2023
An ongoing partnership between the Oak Park Public Library and Northwestern University scientists seeks to improve mental health resources for teens.
- 09.26.2023
Master of Public Health student Anna Rietti applies her background in healthtech to help address pressing healthcare issues around the globe and right here in Chicago.