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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Where have all the brain sandwiches gone? A look into a Midwestern dish on the brink of extinction
Bethany Doerfler, a registered dietitian at the Digestive Health Center at Northwestern Medicine, said brains are especially good for children. They’re high in protein, high in fats and high in B vitamins that are beneficial to young children whose own brains are still developing. “If you’re raising a young foodie, there is a role for brains in their diet because the fat and the protein in there is excellent for developing brains,” Doerfler said. “For adults who have other sources of saturated fat in their diet, consider this on par with red meat. You would eat them occasionally and consider them as a treat.”
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Chicago Tonight – WTTW
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CDC Issues New Guidelines to Diagnose, Treat Youth Concussions
“There’s really no use for routine use of imaging to evaluate every concussion,” said Dr. Cynthia LaBella, director of the Institute for Sports Medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “That’s been the teaching for many years.” Concussions can occur in every sport and account for about 10 percent of all sports-related injuries, depending on the sport and the age of the participant, LaBella said. “I would say about 40 percent of the concussions we see are not due to sports but to everyday life, and that’s much more common in younger kids.”
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Chicago is building a deep biotech bench
Along with companies that have moved here or are developing drugs or therapies invented elsewhere, there are several promising homegrown companies based on research at Northwestern University. Aptinyx came from the lab of neurobiologist Joe Moskal. Skokie-based Exicure, which created a gene therapy technology, is one of several companies that have sprung from the work of nanotech researcher Chad Mirkin. It went public last year in a reverse merger and just raised another $22 million. There also is more support for early-stage life sciences companies. Matter, an incubator for health-technology startups, opened in 2015 in the Merchandise Mart. Northwestern partnered with New York-based investment firm Deerfield Management to spend up to $65 million over the next five years to turn promising research into new drugs and treatments.
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New York Times
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Diet and Exercise May Stem Weight Gain of Pregnancy, but Should Begin Early
Experts said the research was both encouraging and sobering. It confirmed that overweight and obese women can safely limit their pregnancy weight gain with lifestyle interventions. But it also suggests that to improve obstetric outcomes and the health of their babies, women who are carrying extra weight may need to make significant lifestyle changes before they conceive, said Dr. Alan Peaceman , the chief of maternal fetal medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the lead investigator of the study, which was published in Obesity.
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Reuters
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Severe delivery complications on the rise among U.S. pregnant women
“The statistics presented are certainly disturbing, and in line with all the recent publicity surrounding this problem around the country,” said Dr. Alan Peaceman, a high-risk obstetrician at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, who wasn’t involved in the study. “It does not determine, however, the causes of the increase in severe maternal morbidity over the 10-year timespan. On the healthcare side, the rise in the rate of cesarean sections may be contributing to the increase in morbidity. Patient changes that could be factors including increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, older maternal age, and use of infertility treatments.”
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Reuters
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Russian trolls fan flames in U.S. vaccine debate
Researchers have real reason to be concerned about any social media activity that intensifies debate about vaccines because any resulting decline in vaccination rates may mean children’s’ lives are at stake, said Dr. Matthew Davis of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. “As a primary care physician, I know that social media, on many platforms, affects how many parents think about vaccinating their children,” Davis, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.
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U.S. News & World Report
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How to Eat (and Exercise) to Get Six-Pack Abs
Genetics is another unchangeable factor that affects your ability to develop a six-pack, says Holly Herrington, a registered dietitian at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Digestive Health Center in Chicago. “We get things from our families,” including our musculature and build, Herrington says. The offspring of volleyball star Gabrielle Reece, who is 6 feet, 3 inches tall and muscularly lean, with well-defined abs, will almost certainly have a different build than someone who is short and stocky, for example. “It doesn’t mean you can’t strive [for defined abs], but some of it is genetic,” Herrington says.
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Chicago Tribune
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New law will require insurers to cover egg, embryo freezing for cancer patients
“I think this is going to be a game-changer for men and women in Illinois who face life saving but fertility-threatening cancer treatments,” said Teresa Woodruff, director of the Oncofertility Consortium at Northwestern University, which has spent years pushing for such a measure.
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Reuters
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Seniors healthier when medical care is coordinated
The new article “takes us in the right direction,” said Michael Wolf, associate vice chair of research in the department of medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Wolf has personal experience with a problem that’s common when care is fragmented: the possibility that doctors will provide a patient with overlapping medications.
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Reuters
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Maternal depression can impact baby’s physical and mental health
The new research “underscores the need to be aggressive at detecting and treating depression,” said Dr. Dorothy Sit, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “The proper diagnosis and treatment is critical. With it we may be able to alter the pathway for mothers and their offspring.”
