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As we come to the end of the special exhibit Changing the Face of Medicine, Celebrating America’s Women Physicians at the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center here at Northwestern, we thought we’d provide a recap of some comments from our special exhibit event “Mentorship in Action” that occurred on December 7th. At this event, [...]
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) damages the white blood cells of the immune system, reducing the body’s ability to fight off bacterial infection, viruses, and other diseases such as pneumonia and some cancers. Late stage HIV is often referred to as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The most common causes of HIV infection are through sexual contact, [...]
A recent article by the British news source, Mail Online, titled “Sorry darling, I can’t do the vacuuming. It might damage my sperm count: The best excuse yet for men not to do the housework…” has generated media attention. The premise is that household chores such as using a vacuum cleaner, microwave or refrigerator could [...]
Recruitment for Oncofertility Saturday Academy (OSA) 2010 applicants officially began on Monday, November 9, 2009. This is the fourth consecutive year of OSA and we are expecting a very competitive pool of applicants from Young Women’s Leadership Charter School. OSA was initiated in 2007 by the Northwestern University and Young Women’s Leadership Charter School (YWLCS) [...]
Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine disease affecting approximately 7% of the US population. Diabetes is categorized into two classes: Type 1, or insulin dependent diabetes, and Type 2, or adult onset diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes is a condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone necessary for the metabolism of glucose. [...]
On Wednesday, October 28, 2009, five high school senior girls, who are participants of the Women’s Health Science Program for High School Girls and Beyond (WHSP), whsp.northwestern.edu, attended the 2009 Illinois Women’s Health Conference, http://www.idph.state.il.us/about/womenshealth/events.htm, in Oak Brook, Illinois. To be selected, the high school girls had to write essays to explain why they wanted [...]
You may have noticed the NFL players wearing their pink gloves and shoes for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But did you know that breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in American women? It is caused by abnormal cell growth in the breast tissue, usually beginning in the milk-producing ducts. The abnormal growth [...]
Dr. Cynthia R. LaBella, MD, kicked-off the second year of the Women’s Health Research Monthly Forum, on September 22, 2009, by presenting her research on knee injuries in female adolescent athletes to an audience of over 150 professionals from the Northwestern community. Dr. Labella is the Medical Director of the Institute for Sports Medicine at [...]
Research has shown that portion control may be the most effective form of dieting when you take into account longevity and sustained weight loss and management. The reason, according to Dr. Everett Logue et al. in Obesity (http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v12/n9/full/oby2004187a.html) may be that portion control is an easier behavioral target than planned exercise. Although increasing consumption of [...]
Currently 4% of women enrolled in the Illinois Womens Health Registry suffer from this skin condition that causes itchy or sore red patches of skin with silvery scales. Psoriasis occurs when the normal life cycle of skin cells is accelerated by the immune system, causing buildup of dead skin cells, which form the thick, silvery [...]
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