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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Science Daily
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Battling infectious diseases with 3-D protein structures
An international team of scientists including the Computation Institute has determined the 3-D atomic structures of more than 1,000 proteins that are potential targets for drugs and vaccines to combat some of the world’s most dangerous emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases…”Almost 50 percent of the structures that we have deposited in the Protein Data Bank are proteins that were requested by scientific investigators from around the world,” said Wayne Anderson of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who is director of the project.
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Science Daily
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Sugar-coated nanomaterial excels at promoting bone growth
“Regenerative medicine can improve quality of life by offering less invasive and more successful approaches to promoting bone growth,” said Samuel I. Stupp, who developed the new nanomaterial. “Our method is very flexible and could be adapted for the regeneration of other tissues, including muscle, tendons and cartilage.”…For the interdisciplinary study, Stupp collaborated with Dr. Wellington K. Hsu, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, and Erin L. K. Hsu, research assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, both at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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U.S. News & World Report
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What New Diagnostic Tests Might Be Available for MS Soon?
“Sometimes doctors diagnose MS but it’s really a different disease, and sometimes multiple sclerosis is present and it’s not picked up,” says Dr. Roumen Balabanov, a neurologist at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Conde Nast Traveler
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Why Travel May Be the Secret to a Longer Life
As most of us age, our brains shrink, which leads to a decline in cognition (or thinking skills) the older we get. “Atrophy is thought to contribute in part to the moments of forgetfulness we experience with aging,” says Emily Rogalski, Ph.D., the director of the study. SuperAgers like Scott, however, lose less brain volume—one study found that over the course of 18 months, ‘normal’ agers lost volume in the cortex (the brain area linked to critical thinking) twice as fast as SuperAgers.
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Health
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How to Stop Itching Your Skin If You Have Eczema
“Don’t scratch” is probably one of the best—and worst—pieces of advice an eczema patient can receive. The skin condition, which is caused by an abnormal immune reaction that results in dry, red, cracked patches of skin, is only made worse by itching. Your nails damage the skin barrier, which then ramps up inflammatory molecules that exacerbate the itch, explains Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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Live Science
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Trying to Conceive: 12 Tips for Women
The most important advice for a woman who wants to get pregnant is to get to know her body, specifically her menstrual cycle, said Dr. Mary Ellen Pavone, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist and medical director of the IVF program at Northwestern Medicine’s Fertility and Reproductive Medicine in Chicago.
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Chicago Tribune
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‘Where can I fit in?’: Fatherhood gets real at local expectant-dads class
Expectant fatherhood gets real at the dads-only class at Northwestern Memorial’s Prentice Women’s Hospital, where pediatrician and dad Craig Garfield shares practical information and personal anecdotes, and fields questions about everything from Velcro swaddling blankets (he’s on the fence) to the strange color of a newborn (yes, they can initially look a little blue).
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Chicago Tribune
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Even for girls in U.S., female genital mutilation and ‘vacation cutting’ are risks
Female genital mutilation is an umbrella term used to describe various degrees of scraping or cutting female sexual organs, said Dr. Lori Post, a professor in emergency medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who has researched female genital mutilation for decades.
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Reuters
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Premature babies often catch up to peers in school: study
A study following more than 1.3 million premature babies born in Florida found that two-thirds of those born at only 23 or 24 weeks were ready for kindergarten on time, and almost 2 percent of those infants later achieved gifted status in school. “What excites me about this study is that it changes the focus for the clinician and families at the bedside from just focusing on the medical outcomes of the child to what the future educational outcomes might be for a child born early,” Craig Garfield, the first author of the study and an associate professor of pediatrics and medial social sciences at Northwestern Medicine, said in a statement.
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CNN
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Study links college students’ grades to sleep schedules
Staying up late to cram for an early exam may not be doing college students any good, according to a new study focused on college students and their sleep patterns…Kristen Knutson, an associate professor of sleep medicine at Northwestern University and expert in sleep patterns and their relation to health, said the study emphasized an aspect of sleep that people don’t usually think about: regularity.
