Book Review: It’s Not Yet Dark
By Margaret Walker, NPHR Editor It’s only important that you remember that behind every disease is a person. – Simon Fitzmaurice Humans are extraordinary creatures, [...]
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The Forgotten Adolescent Syrian Refugees; Who Can They Turn To?
By Salma Taleb Since the beginning of the Syrian war in late 2011, more than 4.8 million Syrians have escaped to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt. While a few [...]
What’s in a word? Understanding the Impact of ‘Magnoon’
By Maged Gendy A feeling of shock and nausea took over my whole body. It was early afternoon on a bright sunny day when I had received the call. I could feel the horror and [...]
From Lebanon, Lessons In Law And Life
This article was originally published HERE on April 27, 2017 on the Huffington Post. This article was written as a follow-up to a presentation given during the [...]
Book Review: “The Birth of the Pill” by Jonathan Eig
By: Nelly Papalambros “[Elizabeth] Sanger’s crusade had begun when Woodrow Wilson was president and ended with Kennedy. It had begun when a woman devoting herself to [...]
Book Review: When Breath Becomes Air
By Margaret Walker – Blog Editor I recently finished the impactful book “When Breath Becomes Air,” a memoir written by final-year neurosurgical resident, Paul [...]
Health in the Middle of Nowhere, USA
By Margaret Walker – Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Institute for Public Health and Medicine, MD/MPH candidate As the daughter of a primary care doctor [...]
A Reflection on Senator Durbin’s Keynote Address at the Northwestern 2016 Opioids Symposium
by Claire Vernon, PhD Candidate in the NU Driskill Graduate Program Speaking at the end of a day of panel discussions, Senator Durbin highlighted the players in the current [...]
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