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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Inducing labor at 39 weeks leads to fewer C-sections, Northwestern study finds
“In the past, induction at 39 weeks in low-risk women hasn’t been offered — it’s actually been withheld, forbidden, and patients were actively dissuaded from it,’” said Dr. William Grobman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, a Northwestern Medicine physician and the study’s lead author. The study’s findings, which will be published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, may prompt doctors and professional medical societies to dramatically change the way they advise pregnant mothers interested in inducing labor, Grobman said.
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The New York Times
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Helping Nature: Inducing Labor Avoids Cesarean for Some Moms
Being induced doesn’t mean moms can’t have “natural childbirth” — they can forgo pain medicine or use a hospital’s homelike birthing center rather than delivering in “an operating room in a sterile suite with a big light over your head,” said the study leader, Dr. William Grobman, an OB-GYN specialist at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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NBC News
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Choosing to induce labor at 39 weeks reduces risk of C-sections, study finds
The notion that inductions can lead to C-sections was based on past data comparing a woman who goes into labor spontaneously with a woman who is induced at the same point in her pregnancy — which could be before the 39th week, if complications developed, or when the woman was overdue and had gone past 40 weeks, said the study’s principal investigator, Dr. William Grobman, a professor of OB-GYN at Northwestern Medicine. In those studies, a link between induction and C-sections existed. But that’s because they included so many different scenarios, he said.
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National Public Radio
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Pregnancy Debate Revisited: To Induce Labor, Or Not?
That rate dropped from 22 percent among the women who weren’t automatically induced to 19 percent for those whose labor was induced. Dr. William Grobman, the study’s first author and a professor of obstetrics at Northwestern University, says it’s an important goal to reduce the rate of cesarean sections in the U.S. So even a small percentage drop in the rate can have benefits overall. But an individual woman might or might not consider that 3-percentage-point drop a big deal. “I think that’s not really for me to decide,” he says.
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HealthDay
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Elective Labor Induction May Cut C-Section Risk
Dr. William Grobman, the lead researcher on the trial, agreed. Childbirth is “an incredibly personal experience,” said Grobman, an obstetrician at Northwestern University, in Chicago. “Women should have accurate information about the benefits and risks of different options for delivery, so they can make informed choices,” he explained. A full-term pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks, and babies born during the 39th week are considered full-term. But elective induction at that point in pregnancy has been controversial — except in special circumstances, such as when a woman lives far from a hospital.
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Reuters
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Even light drinking may make fatty liver disease worse
“The question still remains as to whether wine, particularly red wine (versus beer or liquor), may have some heart and diabetes protective effects in small amounts (no more than 1 glass on average per day) in particular in patients with NAFLD who are at high risk for complications and death from heart disease and diabetes,” said Dr. Lisa VanWagner of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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Associated Press
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Helping Nature: Inducing Labor Avoids Cesarean for Some Moms
Being induced doesn’t mean moms can’t have “natural childbirth” — they can forgo pain medicine or use a hospital’s homelike birthing center rather than delivering in “an operating room in a sterile suite with a big light over your head,” said the study leader, Dr. William Grobman, an OB-GYN specialist at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Everyone has a different definition of what a natural birth is,” said Dr. Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, which participated in the study.
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CBS News
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Too many new moms are dying. Illinois health officials are trying to understand why.
“One of the things that’s most important is educating moms about things that can kill them,” said Paloma Toledo, a committee member who is an obstetric anesthesiologist at Northwestern Medicine’s Prentice Women’s Hospital. By sifting through women’s medical records, pharmacy prescriptions, police data and even what their families tell emergency room personnel — she had complained of a headache, she was foaming at the mouth — they hope to identify potentially preventable deaths and save lives.
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Associated Press
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Patients who accepted infected kidneys cured of hepatitis C
“As long as the patient accepts the risk, I support this,” said Dr. Josh Levitsky, a professor of organ transplantation at Northwestern University who is not part of the team. Getting an infected kidney may outweigh the burden of dialysis, which many patients find physically exhausting, said Dr. Matthew Cooper, a transplant surgeon at Georgetown University Hospital.
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The Wall Street Journal
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New Exercise Wrinkle: It’s Time for Your Face to Work Out
In a small study published earlier this year, researchers at Northwestern University had dermatologists rate the before and after appearance of participants; middle-aged women were deemed to have shaved three years off their appearance after 20 weeks with a 30-minute facial exercise routine. (That is more time than most Americans spend in the regular gym.)
