Preliminary results from the STAR-D project, one of the nation's largest studies of depression, show that chronic depressive episodes are common and are associated with poorer physical health, lower quality of life, socioeconomic disadvantage and minority status.
Controlling high blood pressure in individuals age 80 years and older has become a major national health problem, according to a study.
Asian American and Pacific Island women, particularly those born abroad, are less likely to receive breast-conserving surgery for early-stage breast cancer than non-Hispanic white women, according to a study.
Over the last quarter of the 20th century, the legal profession became much more concerned about business than solving everyday problems of people's lives, according to a new book, "Urban Lawyers: the New Social Structure of the Bar."
About one in five Americans has a disability and one in 10 has a severe disability. Whether physical disabilities, developmental disabilities or mental illness -- these individuals face difficult challenges in the healthcare system.
Learning disabilities such as dyslexia are believed to affect nearly one in 10 children. To better study them, scientists have developed a data-driven conceptual framework linking for the first time the source-filter model of acoustics with the cortex's "what" and "where" pathways via the auditory brainstem.
Food and Drug Administration policies prevent pharmaceutical manufacturers from informing patients about potentially fatal toxicities that occur with some cancer drugs -- policies that should be revised immediately, according to researchers.
Immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least 15 years are nearly as obese as U.S.-born adults, according to an article.
A study by sleep researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine suggests that even short-term exposure to either morning or evening social and physical activity improves cognitive performance and subjective sleep quality in the elderly.
Northwestern University researchers have identified a key molecular "signal" that allows malarial parasites to release virulence proteins inside human red blood cells.
Overweight and obesity in young adulthood and middle age may have devastating effects on future Medicare expenditures, particularly given the continued and alarming increase in prevalence of obesity in the United States during recent decades, according to a study.
Chronic back pain, a condition afflicting many Americans, shrinks the brain by as much as 11 percent -- equivalent to the amount of gray matter lost in 10 to 20 years of normal aging, a Northwestern University research study found.
Treatment with high-dose immunoglobulin G (IgG) during pregnancy lessens the severity of hemochromatosis (NH), a rare, devastating gestational disease with abnormal iron accumulation in the liver and severe liver injury that almost always results in fetal death or acute liver failure in newborns.
A new study at Northwestern University seeks to determine whether natural tomato oil with a high concentration of lycopene may reverse or delay progression of high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia.
Drug discovery researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new class of compounds that have the potential to reduce the inflammation of brain cells and the neuron loss associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Gaining 15 pounds or more over several years is the major contributor to progression of risk factors for heart disease and development of metabolic syndrome, while maintaining a stable weight significantly reduces those risks.
Living on a cruise ship is a feasible and cost-effective option to assisted living facilities, and the services offered on a cruise ship parallel -- even surpass -- what is provided in senior care facilities, according to a study.
Using nonprescription, or over-the-counter, medications to treat common upper respiratory infections could save $4.75 billion a year, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Northwestern University.
Using MRI technology, a group of Northwestern University researchers literally have peered into the brain to offer new evidence on the existence of false memories and how they are formed.
Northwestern University has received a major grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to advance technologies in the field of islet cell replacement for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
Northwestern University researchers have discovered a mechanism that may help to explain how angiogenesis inhibitors work on normal, blood vessel-forming endothelial cells, but not on insidious, aggressive melanoma cells that masquerade as endothelial-like cells by forming their own vascular networks, called "vasculogenic mimicry."
Contrary to the psychoanalytic theory that children who appear to be well adjusted as adolescents are actually "ticking time bombs," most normal teenagers adapt to and benefit from life experiences, a Northwestern University study has found.
A "planned-care method" of providing primary care for children with asthma can significantly reduce symptoms and need for emergency medications, according to a study.
A recommendation that mutual fund boards should not permit fund advisers to participate in soft dollar arrangements in trades for funds is among 32 recommendations to mutual fund directors presented in a new report by the Mutual Fund Directors Forum to the SEC.
A study is the first to suggest that delayed brain development and its interaction with puberty may be key factors contributing to language-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
Northwestern University is believed to be the only university in the country offering its faculty and students the opportunity to view 3-D images of Mars from NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers as a component to enhance the classroom experience and for research purposes.
When you see a small child try to fit into or on top of a doll-sized toy, you're likely to laugh. But investigators decided to take a serious look at why youngsters make such dramatic mistakes about scale.
New research, shows that subconscious -- or implicit -- bias can emerge cause even well-meaning whites to look at identical facial expressions of African Americans and European Americans and see greater hostility in the African American faces.
According to an editorial, the link between chronic inflammation and colon cancer must be further explored before C-reactive protein is confirmed as a risk predictor.
One of the newest tools in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease and stroke combines a 40-year-old imaging technique and liposomes, little globules of soluble fats and water that circulate naturally throughout the bloodstream.
Two scientists, a geologist and a neurobiologist, are available to comment on President Bush's plan to send humans to the moon and Mars.
Experts available to speak about the Jose Padilla ruling and Saddam Hussein prosecution
Fitness in early adulthood greatly reduces the likelihood of developing high blood pressure and diabetes -- both major risk factors for heart disease and stroke -- in middle age, a new study has found.
A recent discovery of a double neutron-star system has helped to increase astronomers' chances at collecting the information they need to better understand the black holes and neutron stars in our Galaxy. Neutron star pairs may merge and give off a burst of gravitational waves about six times more often than previously thought.
Studies report that red wine and dark chocolate in moderation can be good for you. Now it appears that a little stress may be beneficial, too. Scientists have shown that elevated levels of special protective proteins that respond to stress in a cell (molecular chaperones) promote longevity.
A new book by two sociologists, from Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, turns the "market" defense of job discrimination upside down, while pointing out the inherent flaws in fighting pay discrimination with a "comparable worth" remedy.
The most accessible and authoritative collection of United States Supreme Court oral arguments is now available on a CD-ROM, thanks to a new electronic project created by a Northwestern University political scientist.
An anti-violence initiative at a suburban Chicago high school aims to decrease violence not only at the school but in the communities in which the students reside.
The risk posed by large earthquakes in the Midwest's New Madrid seismic zone to cities such as Memphis and St. Louis is much lower than previously thought, according to a new study that used the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to track the motions of the ground in the seismic zone.
Although hearing loss is among the most common chronic conditions in women, the vast majority of women fail to include hearing testing in their routine health care, according to two Northwestern researchers who recently completed the first major study exclusively focused on hearing in women.
Engineering has trailed other professions in attracting women into its ranks. Women now account for a quarter of physicians and lawyers, but only about one in 10 engineers. Now in its 30th year, a career workshop at Northwestern University encourages girls to consider engineering in their education and career choi
A new book highlights five controversial "Crimes of the Century," exposing much more than the underlying tensions of our criminal justice system. The cases -- including Leopold and Loeb (1924), Scottsboro (from 1931), Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1932), Alger Hiss (1949) and O.J. Simpson (1994) -- also offer provocative insights into the nation's passions, politics and prejudices.
A team of four engineering freshmen at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science designed a prosthetic appliance that is allowing a 57-year-old burn victim to play tennis again.
Northwestern University has received U.S. and international patents for the world's smallest laser -- a Microcavity Semiconductor Laser -- and the laser's Photonic-Well Microcavity Light Emitting Device.
In a finding that is expected to lead to the development of a new class of drugs for allergy and asthma sufferers, researchers at Northwestern University and Harvard Medical School have determined the precise shape of the receptor molecule that triggers the allergic response in the immune system.
Scientists at Northwestern University have demonstrated lasing in a simple powdered material, suggesting that semiconductor lasers -- which are brighter and more efficient than light emitting diodes -- could be made cheaply enough to replace some of the 30 billion LEDs made each year for use in luminescent displays.
The McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University doubled the number of Hispanic students in its freshman class this year, highlighting a nationwide trend of greater numbers of Hispanic students pursuing engineering degrees.
In a surprising finding that underscores the difficulty in understanding how genes guide the developing mammalian embryo, researchers have found that the same master gene that controls development of all of the body's blood cells is later activated in other cells of the embryo to form the genitourinary tract.
As Minnesota prepares for a pro wrestler governor, a Northwestern University mathematician says voting system is un-democratic in a three-way race.
In 1994, after reading an article in a Karachi, Pakistan, newspaper describing a cluster of dwarfs living in remote area of Sindh, Pakistan, two Northwestern University Medical School researchers traveled there to investigate the disorder. That scientific journey led to the identification of a new, genetically inherited form of dwarfism.
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