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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The New York Times
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Scientists Are Teaching the Body to Accept New Organs
Far more people need kidneys than need any other organ — there are about 19,500 kidney transplants a year, compared with 8,000 transplanted livers. And those transplanted kidneys rarely last a lifetime of battering with immunosuppressive drugs. “If you are 30 or 40 and get a kidney transplant, that is not the only kidney you will need,” said Dr. Joseph R. Leventhal, who directs the kidney and pancreas transplant programs at Northwestern University.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Diet or Exercise — or Both?
Northwestern University researchers found that it’s not only doable, but also more effective, to change unhealthy behaviors simultaneously. Different groups of study participants were given a pair of changes to make. One involved diet — either lowering saturated fat or increasing fruit and vegetables. The other involved activity — either increasing exercise or reducing screen time. All participants received remote coaching to help them with motivation, but those assigned to eat more produce and spend less time with their gadgets were most successful at making healthy changes stick.
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Yahoo News
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Serena Williams Is (Understandably) Worried About Blood Clots While at the Australian Open
If you’ve had DVT before, your risk of having another blood clot typically depends on what caused it the first time and your current risk factors, Ashley Vavra, M.D., an assistant professor of vascular surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, tells SELF. The extent of the clot at the initial diagnosis and how much scar tissue it leaves behind also contribute to whether you’ll develop DVT again, study coauthor Mounir Haurani, M.D., a vascular surgeon at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, tells SELF.
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The New York Times
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Your Sweat Will See You Now
“It fits into a broader trend that you’re seeing in medicine, which is personalized, tailored approaches to treatment and delivery of care,” said John Rogers, a biomedical engineer at Northwestern University in Illinois and the key architect of the device. Technology like this has been anticipated for years, but the field has accelerated rapidly. Some similar devices in development are soft. Some use electric sensors to read chemicals. Others rely on colorimetrics, in which the intensity of the color in the readout matches the concentration of the chemical being monitored. The new device delivers all of that in a battery-free and wireless form.
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Chicago Tribune
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‘There are a number of ways to be a man’: New guidelines for psychologists are intended to help in treatment of men and boys
In working with men, Saper said, he finds it helpful if those who are fathers use their children as motivation to change behaviors or deal with their emotions. “It helps them make changes for the benefit of their kids.” That’s important because fathers model behavior for their children, including what it means “to be masculine and a caregiver,” said Sheehan Fisher, a psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, who researches fathers’ mental health.
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Associated Press
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Nearly One in Four Antibiotic Prescriptions Were Unnecessary in Study of Privately Insured Patients in 2016
“Our study shows the unacceptable scale of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in the United States,” said Jeffrey Linder, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “It underscores the need to learn more about prescriptions that aren’t justified by a diagnosis – or are written after no diagnosis at all.” Given the importance of combating antibiotic resistance, researchers note that their classification scheme could facilitate future efforts to measure comprehensively outpatient antibiotic appropriateness in the U.S., and could be adapted for use in other countries that are using ICD-10 codes.
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Chicago Tribune
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Move over, jewelry and leggings. Selling CBD oil is the new side hustle for moms
It remains illegal to claim CBD can ease any other symptoms, according to the FDA, and those who sell CBD products are careful to say their experience may not be replicated in everyone. “There is very little we know for sure” about the effectiveness of CBD, said Dr. Melinda Ring, director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University, who studies CBD. The research on CBD and its effect on a variety of ailments comes mostly from small clinical studies, or ones that don’t include human subjects, Ring said. As scientists continue to the look into CBD, Ring cautions people to pay attention to labels on CBD products and dosing, and to be wary of certain drug interactions, especially for those taking blood thinners or seizure medications.
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Chicago Tribune
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Remembering Jane: Winnetka couple open 6th grieving room at an area hospital in honor of stillborn daughter
But even as the Wellsteins left the hospital with Jane’s footprints and a snip of her bright blond hair, the Winnetka couple knew that their little girl’s story wasn’t over. They wanted to do something to honor her and to help other parents who experience similar losses, including miscarriages and newborn deaths. Within a year of Jane’s death in January 2012, they’d opened the first Jane’s Room — a comfortable, homelike space for grieving parents and family members — at Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago. On Thursday, the sixth Chicago-area Jane’s Room is scheduled to be unveiled at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Nearly 1 in 4 Antibiotic Prescriptions Are Inappropriate
Among the study’s limitations, authors note that the data they used relied on clinicians’ assigned diagnosis codes, which could lead to misclassification bias; did not account for visits paid out-of-pocket and did not contain information on prescriber specialty. The collaborative research was conducted by Dr. Kao-Ping Chua from the University of Michigan Medical School’s pediatrics and communicable disease department; Dr. Michael Fischer from Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s medical school; and Dr. Jeffrey Linder, chief of internal medicine and geriatrics in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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CNN
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Stem cell therapy for relapsing MS proves effective and safe, study finds
A stem cell transplant using a lower-dose regimen of chemotherapy plus immune system suppressors is more effective at preventing disease progression compared to currently used disease-modifying therapies, according to the new study published Tuesday in the journal JAMA. (The stem cell treatment is known as “autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation” or HSCT.) “I never use the word ‘cure’ — never,” said Dr. Richard K. Burt, lead author of the study and chief of Immunotherapy and Autoimmune Diseases at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. However, only a minority of patients receiving HSCT relapse by the five year mark, he said. “The vast majority don’t.”
