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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A ‘sci-fi’ cancer therapy fights brain tumors, study finds
But in the study, more than twice as many patients were alive five years after getting it, plus the usual chemotherapy, than those given just the chemo — 13 percent versus 5 percent. “It’s out of the box” in terms of how cancer is usually treated, and many doctors don’t understand it or think it can help, said Dr. Roger Stupp, a brain tumor expert at Northwestern University in Chicago. He led the company-sponsored study while previously at University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland, and gave results Sunday at an American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Washington.
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The Associated Press
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A ‘sci-fi’ cancer therapy fights brain tumors, study finds
But in the study, more than twice as many patients were alive five years after getting it, plus the usual chemotherapy, than those given just the chemo — 13 percent versus 5 percent. “It’s out of the box” in terms of how cancer is usually treated, and many doctors don’t understand it or think it can help, said Dr. Roger Stupp, a brain tumor expert at Northwestern University in Chicago. He led the company-sponsored study while previously at University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland, and gave results Sunday at an American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Washington.
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WebMD
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‘Cycle in a Dish’ Explores Female Intricacies
“This is nothing short of a revolutionary technology,” lead investigator Teresa Woodruff said.
Woodruff is a reproductive scientist and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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HealthDay
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‘Menstrual Cycle in a Dish’ Explores Intricacies of Female Body
Woodruff is a reproductive scientist and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
EVATAR, as it’s called, resembles a small cube. A special fluid pumping through all of the organ models performs the function of blood.
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The New York Times
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Meet Evatar: The Lab Model That Mimics the Female Reproductive System
“If I had your stem cells and created a heart, liver, lung and an ovary, I could test 10 different drugs at 10 different doses on you and say, ‘Here’s the drug that will help your Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s or diabetes,’ ” the lead investigator, Teresa K. Woodruff, said in a report about the research on the Northwestern University website. “It’s the ultimate personalized medicine, a model of your body for testing drugs.”
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HealthDay
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Exercising 2.5 Hours a Week May Slow Parkinson’s Progression
“We found that people with Parkinson’s disease who maintained exercise 150 minutes per week had a smaller decline in quality of life and mobility over two years compared to people who did not exercise or exercised less,” said lead investigator Miriam Rafferty, of Northwestern University and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
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Fox News
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This working model of the female reproductive system can fit in the palm of your hand
This is the first menstrual cycle “on-a-chip,” said Teresa Woodruff, the study’s primary investigator and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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PBS
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How to build a female reproductive system that fits in the palm of your hand
This is the first menstrual cycle “on-a-chip,” said Teresa Woodruff, the study’s primary investigator and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The results were published Tuesday in Nature Communications.
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The New York Times
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A positive outlook may be good for your health
Judith T. Moskowitz, medical social sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, developed a set of eight skills to help foster positive emotions. In earlier research at the University of California, San Francisco, she and colleagues found that people with new diagnoses of HIV infection who practiced these skills carried a lower load of the virus, were more likely to take their medication correctly, and were less likely to need antidepressants to help them cope with their illness.
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NPR
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Device Mimicking Female Reproductive Cycle Could Aid Research
Scientists say they’ve made a device in the lab that can mimic the human female reproductive cycle. “An avatar is kind of a digital representation of an individual in a virtual environment,” says Teresa Woodruff, a biomedical engineer in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University who helped create the system. “So when we thought about this synthetic version of the female reproductive tract we thought of the word EVATAR.”
