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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National Public Radio
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For Cervical Cancer Patients, Less Invasive Surgery Is Worse For Survival
“That is quite a big deal,” says Masha Kocherginsky, an epidemiologist and co-author of the study. “These patients are early stage cancer patients, and the intent of surgical treatment is cure.”[…]Dr. Emma Barber at Northwestern says she now tells her patients about the choice they face. “I think increasingly that’s going to be open surgery for many women,” she says, “but there may still be a role for minimally invasive surgery in some patients.”
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Yahoo!
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Robotic surgery for cervical cancer boosts death risk
“At this point, we would recommend only using open surgery to perform a radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer,” said co-senior author Shohreh Shahabi, chief of gynecologic oncology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. When a woman is diagnosed with cervical cancer, she often gets her uterus and cervix removed, an operation known as a radical hysterectomy.
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Reuters
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Short interval between pregnancies linked to increased risks for mom, baby
While the study is interesting, it’s not clear how well it would apply to U.S. patients, said. Dr. Tarun Jain, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and a fertility specialist at Northwestern Medicine. “I think it’s important to be aware that these findings might not be generalizable,” he said. “Another important point,” Jain said, is that while shorter interval between pregnancies was associated with higher risks for older women, “the risk was still relatively low.”
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Livongo takes aim at high blood pressure
Diabetes affects millions of people, which means there are plenty of competitors in the space, including Amazon. “Many players are looking into that sandbox. It’s not only startups, but hospitals, insurance and large tech are beating that drum,” said Dr. Steve Xu, a dermatologist and medical director of Northwestern University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics. “There are a lot companies who want to sell to employers to improve health. The employers are where the money is. That’s where the pain is. For these companies, it’s a rounding error compared to their overall health costs.”
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WTTW
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Study: Surge in Blood Donations Wasn’t Needed After Las Vegas Shooting
A new study by Northwestern Medicine looks at a very specific aspect of that shooting: the amount of blood needed to treat victims, and the amount donated by the public. Their findings show that Las Vegas hospitals had adequate blood supplies to meet patient demand, and that 17 percent of blood donated after the shooting went to waste. “Even with the high volume of blood transfusions, in-hospital supplies and rapid supplementation from local blood suppliers met patient need in Las Vegas,” said Dr. Glenn Ramsey, medical director of the blood bank at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and professor of pathology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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NBC News
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Four in U.K. develop cancer after organ transplant. Is there cause for worry?
“The reports of cancer transmitted at the time of organ transfer to recipients are exceedingly rare,” said Dr. Steven Flamm, medical director of the liver transplant program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “In the U.S. there has been hundreds of thousands of organ transplants, and the number of times this has been reported are close to zero. Still, no screening test is perfect. A mammogram may not pick up a very small cancer. So there is no way to eliminate the risk to zero.”
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MSN
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Male Breast Cancer Is Extremely Rare. This Guy Beat It Twice.
“Breast cancer in men is extremely rare,” says Rena Zimmerman, MD, medical director of radiation oncology at Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital. “But it is the same, pathologically, as breast cancer in women.” According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 833 men are diagnosed with breast cancer, and 2,550 new cases were diagnosed in in 2018. African-American men are more likely to get it than other men, Zimmerman says.
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NBC News
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New program tries to combat America’s opioid addiction crisis by taking back unused pills
Surgeons write 28 million opioid prescriptions each year, but 75 percent of the pills go unused and many end up contributing to opioid addiction. This is a crisis that one hospital hopes to end with a new kind of drug take-back program.
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Fox News
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Pets can judge time, study says
The discovery was made by a team from Northwestern University while studying the medial entorhinal cortex of mice. Located in the mid-temporal lobe, it’s the part of the brain associated with memory and navigation. And since it encodes spatial information in episodic memories, lead study author Daniel Dombecktheorized that it could function as a sort of “inner clock” as well. “There are many similarities between the brains of mice, cats, dogs and humans,” Dombeck told Fox News. “We all have a medial entorhinal cortex (the region we found that may act as an inner clock), so it’s logical to think that this brain region serves a similar function in all of these different species.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Red Sox happy to be asleep at the ballpark
A 2017 paper by Northwestern University researchers Alex Song, Thomas Severini and Ravi Allada published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science examined travel by big league teams from 1992-2011. “We observed that jet-lag effects were largely evident after eastward travel with very limited effects after westward travel,” the authors wrote. “Jet lag impacted both home and away defensive performance. Remarkably, the vast majority of these effects for both home and away teams could be explained by a single measure, home runs allowed.”
