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A recent study published in JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) has determined that after researchers looked at 574 participants over six months, the traditional diet of northern Portugal and northwestern Spain may be beneficial for heart health and lowering the risk of dying early from cancer.  The study “Southern European Traditional Atlantic Diet,” […]

Northwestern University scientists have received two awards for Parkinson’s disease (PD) research from the ASAP Collaborative Research Network, a

Northwestern University has been awarded $18 to study Parkinson's disease brain circuitry by the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has never been a trailblazer on issues of social and racial justice. As in society as a whole, attitudes at the AMA have changed, albeit at a glacial pace. In 2008, the AMA broke new ground and apologized for its long history of discrimination against Black physicians -- it didn't admit its first Black delegate to its policy-setting House of Delegates until 1950, more than a century after its founding -- and entered on what it calls a path of racial healing and reconciliation. Thirteen years later, AMA leadership again felt a sting of conscience abou...

it is a residence but it's also the headquarters of the wichita town and land company that came down here to create, shall we say the city of wichita. what was going on at the time is that we had a small military outpost, camp beecher that was stationed here. we had buffalo hunters and small trading post. we had freighting into oklahoma. we got a lot of economic activity going on, but we would like to capitalize on that. so some gentlemen from topeka decided that they would form a company to come down and create a town and so mr. munger was the most skilled person of that group. he c...