Media Coverage
The work done by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members (and even some students) is regularly highlighted in newspapers, online media outlets and more. Below you’ll find links to articles and videos of Feinberg in the news.
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Chicago Tribune
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Having a paying job may help fend off Alzheimer’s disease in women
Dr. Tamar Gefen, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University, said the results of Mayeda’s study align with existing research on factors that lower the risk of late-life cognitive decline. “There is evidence in the literature suggesting a limited number of factors that can perhaps lower the risk of developing cognitive impairment in later life. This includes aerobic exercise, healthy nutrition, mental activity and engagement,” Gefen said in an email interview.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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NU gets $46M to accelerate research into treatments
Northwestern University Clinical &Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) got a five-year, $46 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The institute’s mission is to improve health by accelerating the translation of discoveries into real-world cures and treatments, the university said in a statement. As part of the new funding, NUCATS will continue to contribute to digital research infrastructures across Northwestern and its clinical partners, the statement said. The money will help enhance Study Tracker, Northwestern’s clinical trials management system, to improve recruitment and efficiency so patients can participate in research more easily and fully.
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Reuters
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Many deadly common cancers get little charity funding
Part of the mismatch may be because nonprofit organizations need to appeal to donors, said Dr. Suneel Kamath, lead author of the study. “Donors in the general public think, ‘Why am I funding research to find a cure for a disease that people caused themselves – if they die, it was their fault,’” said Kamath, who did the work while at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “I’m going to target my money to a disease that happens to ‘good people’ with ‘clean living’ who just had bad luck.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Screen Every Pregnant Woman for Hep B: Task Force
“Screening for hepatitis B in pregnant people can protect babies from lifelong chronic conditions, such as liver cancer or liver disease,” task force member Dr. Melissa Simon said in a task force news release. “This is essential because the primary source of hepatitis B in children is transmission at birth,” explained Simon, vice chair of clinical research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Early detection means that doctors can take steps to reduce the risk of hepatitis B transmission from mother to child.
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Chicago Tribune
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Vitamin devotees should shift their loyalty to lifestyle changes, experts say
Dr. Jeffrey Linder, chief of internal medicine and geriatrics at Northwestern Medicine, wasn’t surprised by the results, which corroborated and combined years of prior research while putting a spotlight on cardiovascular health. “This new study confirms what we’ve been thinking all along: that there are very few, if any, supplements or vitamins that people should take as long as you’re eating a healthy diet,” Linder said. “Every time scientists have compared taking a supplement of something versus getting it through food, getting it through food wins every time.” Food, Linder said, contains both minerals and vitamins that the body is “built and designed to absorb.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Many Americans Take Antibiotics Without a Prescription
Dr. Ruchi Gupta is a professor of pediatrics and medicine with the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Using antibiotics without a prescription is dangerous for many reasons,” said Gupta, who wasn’t involved with the study. To avoid these dangers, she added, “getting a proper diagnosis and appropriate treatment are essential.” But is antibiotic misuse on the rise? “It’s hard to say, because this is an understudied problem. But what we can say is that it is a problem,” Grigoryan said.
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Chicago Tribune
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Northwestern NICU app gives parents baby’s vital signs, updates to ease their minds
The app — now available to some NICU families at Prentice, but expected to be widely available at a later date — was designed to give parents peace of mind and confidence during the often overwhelming experience of having a newborn in the NICU, said Dr. Craig Garfield, the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital physician and Northwestern professor of pediatrics who developed the app. “These parents … are really thrown into this crazy world,” he said. “Parents are often in such a state of shock and stress that they really can’t hear or take in the information that we’re giving them.”
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WTTW
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Northwestern Develops Tool to Help Scientists Play Nice While Collaborating
And according to a new study, it’s working: About 84% of those surveyed said the tool, which is available at teamscience.net, would have a positive impact on their future research. Bonnie Spring, professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, led the study. “Interdisciplinary team science is now the state of the art across all branches of science and engineering,” Spring said in a statement. “But very few scientists have been trained to work with others outside of their own disciplinary silo.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Some of the deadliest cancers receive the least funding, Northwestern study says
The study was published Thursday in the peer-reviewed Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. “Even though these are some of the most common diseases we treat and some of the most deadly, the amount of money going toward them in the nonprofit setting is extremely small, and I think that can have a negative impact on research and drug development going toward those cancers,” said Dr. Suneel Kamath, the study’s lead author.
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The New York Times
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The Sad Truth About Sleep-Tracking Devices and Apps
That mirrored the conclusions of a recent study from Rush University Medical College and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Researchers there noticed patients complaining about sleep data collected by apps and devices from Nike, Apple, Fitbit and others. In their study, the researchers warned that sleep-tracking tech could provide inaccurate data and worsen insomnia by making people obsessed with achieving perfect slumber, a condition they called orthosomnia. It was one of the latest pieces of research supporting the idea that health apps don’t necessarily make people healthier.
