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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.

  • HealthDay

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    Study Suggests Causes for Lupus’ Impact on Immune System

    A rheumatologist who was not involved in the study agreed. “At this point, more work is needed, including looking at feasibility and cost issues,” said Dr. Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago.
    Ramsey-Goldman also agreed that the findings could eventually lead to new therapies, or point researchers in the direction of existing drugs for other conditions that could be “repurposed” to fight lupus.

  • NPR

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    Whoops! 12 Tales Of Accidental Brilliance In Science

    Melissa Brown was at Northwestern University studying mice with multiple sclerosis. Like most MS researchers, Brown exclusively used female mice — the males just don’t get sick.

  • U.S. News and World Report

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    Smartphone Blood-Pressure App Often Wrong, Study Finds

    Those results are “not good enough,” said American Heart Association past president Dr. Clyde Yancy. “We understand that when we’re measuring blood pressure, the numbers do matter, and we can’t be off by plus or minus 5 or plus or minus 7,” said Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

  • Chicago Tribune

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    Letter: Big data and the ‘never-ending clinical trial’

    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine established the Center for Data Science and Informatics in order to accelerate such research. The Columbia patient data archive is not the largest of its kind. The Northwestern Medicine Enterprise Data Warehouse is actually twice the size of the Columbia archive, with 8.3 million patients, 44 million prescriptions and 530 million lab results. It supports hundreds of research studies.

  • PBS

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    Cancer Experts Talk Transformation in Treatment and Care

    Francis Giles is a professor and chief of the division of hematology/oncology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He’s been in the field for nearly 30 years and also said that, while radiation and chemotherapy are still most often the best option, patients could one day see more targeted treatments like immuno-oncology. “The reason it’s very exciting is it may be the first page, but we don’t really understand yet how big the book is,” Giles said. “And we don’t yet understand, although we are beginning to … if you tell the immune system wake up, get stronger and while you’re at it, get stronger specifically against this malignancy.”

  • Yahoo! News

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    Emergency trips soar in Colorado after marijuana legalized

    “Anecdotally, we noticed that most out-of-towners were in Colorado for other reasons, such as visiting friends or on business,” said lead author Howard Kim, an emergency medicine physician at Northwestern Medicine.

  • Los Angeles Times

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    Pot tourists wind up in Colorado ERs

    To see how the new laws affected emergency room visits in the state, the research team lead by Dr. Howard Kim, a postdoctoral fellow in emergency medicine at Northwestern University, used data collected from the UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital, which sees approximately 100,000 ER visits per year.

  • Chicago Tribune

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    Study: Pot-related visits to Colorado ERs higher for out-of-state visitors

    The study, from Northwestern Medicine and the University of Colorado School of Medicine, looked at ER visits at more than 100 hospitals in Colorado in which there was a diagnosis of patients having used cannabis. Researchers compared the records from 2012, when the Colorado ballot measure passed to legalize marijuana, with 2014, when it was legally sold for recreational use.

  • Chicago Tribune

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    Colorado struggles to educate marijuana tourists

    Out-of-state visitors to Colorado emergency rooms for marijuana-related symptoms accounted for 163 per 10,000 visits in 2014, up from 78 per 10,000 visits in 2012, according to research published by Dr. Howard Kim, a Northwestern research fellow and emergency medicine physician.

  • NPR

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    Colorado Pot Tourists Are More Apt To Land In The ER Than Locals

    There are marijuana-specific tours, like those run by My 420 Tours, but many of these visitors seem to be in Colorado for other reasons, says lead author Dr. Howard Kim, an emergency medicine physician and a postdoc at Northwestern University. “I remember some business travelers who were in Denver on business, and after the meeting ended, they decided to try some marijuana edibles. Then they ended up cutting to the ER.”