Mummies had cancer? A brief history of a long-lived disease
By Virginia Nowakowski, NPHR Editor One hundred years ago, you were most likely to die from pneumonia. That’s if tuberculosis or diarrhea didn’t finish you off, according [...]
Spotlights
Using Stories to Humanize the Refugee Crisis
By Sheila Burt Following a brief post in September, Sheila Burt reports in more detail on “Forced From Home,” a Doctors Without Borders exhibition that aims to educate [...]
“Forced from Home” seeks to personalize the lives of global refugees
By Sheila Burt In the Daley Plaza courtyard, a series of tents portray what life is like for the millions of people around the globe being forced to flee their homes due to [...]
New NPHR Print Issue! – All of Us in the Age of Precision Medicine
We are both pleased and proud to present our latest issue, now available to read in full online! Cover Photo by Isabel Romero Calvo, PhD From All of Us to Precision Medicine [...]
How to Solve the Opioid Crisis in Chicago: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Recovery
By Elise Meyer For the past two weeks, the Northwestern Public Health Review has been posting summaries of the three-point plan that evolved out of an interdisciplinary [...]
How to Solve the Opioid Epidemic in Chicago: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Harm Reduction
By Elise Meyer Last week marked the first of three posts summarizing the content of a white paper produced from an interdisciplinary roundtable on Chicago-specific responses [...]
How to Solve the Opioid Epidemic in Chicago: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Prevention
By Elise Meyer In October 2017, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law hosted a roundtable to discuss the opioid epidemic in Chicago and its surrounding counties. The full-day [...]
The Updated Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Two weeks ago today, the American Cancer Society released updated guidelines regarding colorectal cancer screening. Colorectal cancer [...]
