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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U.S. News & World Report
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After a Spouse’s Death, Sleep Woes Up Health Risks
For the surviving spouse, that could mean an increased risk for heart disease and cancer, though the study did not prove a cause-and-effect link. “We think these individuals are more vulnerable to the negative effects of poor sleep,” said corresponding author Diana Chirinos. She’s a research assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. The study included 101 people, average age 67. Half had recently lost a spouse, while the other half were married or single.
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Reuters
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Patient satisfaction not influenced by surgery complications
Even so, the findings confirm what’s been seen in many previous studies examining patient satisfaction and outcomes from surgery as well as from other types of treatment, said Dr. Karl Bilimoria, vice president for quality at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. “Patient experience is not a reflection of patient complications or other typical measures of healthcare quality,” Bilimoria, who wasn’t involved in the current study, said by email.
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The Wall Street Journal
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The Benefit of Facial Exercises
Murad Alam, vice chair and professor of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, decided to test such claims with a small clinical trial and study. Dr. Alam, in cooperation with Gary Sikorski, founder of Happy Face Yoga, an online and in-person facial-yoga instruction provider based in Providence, R.I., enrolled 27 women ages 40 to 65 to take part in the trial. The mean age of the participants was 53 years old. The women, who were all from the Chicago area and enrolled after seeing an ad for the study, were asked to attend two online 90-minute training sessions where they learned how to do 32 facial exercises from Mr. Sikorski, a co-author of the study.
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Chicago Tribune
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Why bitter tastes (and genetics) may make you drink more coffee
Marilyn Cornelis has been thinking about coffee for most of her life. As a child, the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine preventive medicine professor watched her father down cup after cup — “a couple of pots a day” and made a game of daring her siblings to lick the spoon he used to stir it. “It was so bitter to us,” she says, her voice still registering a little of the face-twisting shock. That reaction to bitter tastes is universal, and it’s coded into our DNA — at a time when human beings needed to constantly seek food to sustain life,
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HealthDay
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Many Infants With Milk Allergy Seem to Outgrow It
Study co-author Dr. Ruchi Gupta pointed out that confusion exists over what a real milk allergy looks like. She is a professor of pediatrics and medicine at Northwestern Medicine, in Chicago. “A child may have a milk intolerance that his parents mistake for a milk allergy,” Gupta said. “It’s important that any child suspected of having a milk allergy have the allergy confirmed with an allergist.” A food allergy of any kind can have a big effect on a household, including food costs and quality of life, she noted. “A child with a milk allergy should receive counseling on how to avoid milk, but also on what it means to unnecessarily cut out foods. You don’t want to get rid of necessary nutrients,” Gupta said.
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National Public Radio
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Buzz, Buzz: Bitter Tasters Like Coffee Better
How to explain these results? Marylin Cornelis, assistant professor of preventative medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and one of the study authors says people may “learn to associate that bitter taste with the stimulation that coffee can provide.” In other words, they get hooked on the buzz. Although taste does play some role in people’s coffee consumption, Cornelis says people’s ability to break down caffeine and flush it from the body is a better predictor of how much they’ll drink.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Like Coffee? You May Be Genetically Wired That Way
But their study of more than 400,000 people in the United Kingdom found that the more sensitive people are to the bitter taste of caffeine, the more coffee they drink. The sensitivity is caused by a genetic variant. “You’d expect that people who are particularly sensitive to the bitter taste of caffeine would drink less coffee,” said study author Marilyn Cornelis, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. But people with an increased sensitivity to the bitterness of coffee/caffeine have learned to associate “good things with it” — which would be the stimulation provided by caffeine, Cornelis said in a university news release.
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Chicago Tribune
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A different kind of bell ringing — for kids who finish cancer treatment
Northwestern spokesperson Jenny Nowatzke said each of its cancer locations has a special tradition when patients — adults and children — complete treatment. Some locations have bells or gongs; others provide certificates. On a 2016 camping trip, Abrielle complained that her ankle hurt. After trips to the doctor, including for a stubborn fever, the family was told she had cancer. “It was so hard,” her mother, Janel Ramos, said. “We were not expecting that. We thought it was something normal — normal fever.”
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Yahoo News
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L’Oreal’s wearable sensor tracks UV, pollen and pollution
The device, My Skin Track/UV, has been developed in partnership L’Oreal’s skincare brand La Roche-Posay and Professor John Rogers from Northwestern University — the same guy that introduced wearable tattoos back in 2016. Powered by the user’s smartphone using near-field communication, the sensor is activated by the sun and provides instant status updates while storing up to three months of data. Its primary function is UV monitoring, but integration with Apple HealthKit means it also provides insight into humidity, pollen and pollution. And it’s waterproof.
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WTTW
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New Exercise Guidelines: Move More, Sit Less, Start Younger
The advice is the first update since the government’s physical activity guidelines came out a decade ago. Since then, the list of benefits of exercise has grown, and there’s more evidence to back things that were of unknown value before, such as short, high-intense workouts and taking the stairs instead of an elevator.“Doing something is better than doing nothing, and doing more is better than doing something,” said Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, a preventive medicine expert at Northwestern University in Chicago. Only 20 percent of Americans get enough exercise now, and the childhood obesity problem has prompted the push to aim younger to prevent poor health later in life.
