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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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.”
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HealthDay
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Here’s How Sleepless Nights Can Trigger Weight Gain
“We need mechanistic studies to understand the effects of sleep loss,” said lead researcher Dr. Jonathan Cedernaes, a research associate at Northwestern University, in Chicago. Cedernaes said studies have shown, for example, that sleep loss can change a range of markers in the blood — including blood sugar, hormone levels and various byproducts of metabolism.
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Chicago Tribune
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Cancer isn’t a war or a battle, but maybe cancer research is
However, cancer for patients is not a war because cancer by its nature is a form of ourselves. Cancer forms from our own cells by hijacking normal pathways to make tumor cells that live longer and multiply faster. These cells don’t declare themselves with uniforms and banners, or form lines on the other side of a battlefield. They surreptitiously coexist with normal cells within us. They are us, just in a malignant form. War is an inadequate analogy for the internal complexity of cancer.
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Chicago Tonight – WTTW
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Experts Revise Recommendations on Cervical Cancer Screenings
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has revised its recommendations for cervical cancer screenings in some women. According to the new guidelines, women ages 30-65 who have a low risk of cervical cancer can rely on human papillomavirus (HPV) testing instead of, or in addition to, pap smears. Women in this age group should receive HPV testing every five years, a pap smear every three years, or a combination of the two tests every five years. The new recommendations hone in on examining the “best predictors” of whether someone has significant pre-cancer or cervical cancer, said Dr. Lauren Streicher, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Forbes
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7 Amazing Real-World Examples of 3D Printing In 2018
From vets who have made a 3D-printed mask to help a dog recover from severe facial injuries to surgical guides, prosthetic limbs and models of body parts, the applications for 3D printing to impact medical strategies is vast. In an experiment conducted by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, a mouse with 3D-printed ovaries gave birth to healthy pups which could bode well for human interventions after more research is done.
