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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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    Mick Jagger in Recovery After Heart Valve Procedure

    If one of these valves gets smaller, blood can’t continue to flow without the heart working extremely hard, Otto told AHA News. And if a valve leaks, the heart has to pump extra blood to make up for it. Dr. Robert Bonow is professor of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and co-author of those AHA guidelines. He said, “It’s a very delicate structure that with time can become a little bit thicker and get a little bit of scar tissue.” Risk factors are similar to those that lead to heart attacks, including high cholesterol, smoking, high blood pressure and diabetes, Bonow told AHA News. “But even people who have no risk factors, including athletes, can develop problems,” he said.

  • Chicago Tribune

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    Matteson heart transplant recipient will share her story at Alsip Library organ donor event

    Her doctor, Northwestern Memorial Hospital cardiologist Kambiz Ghafourian, said that while Robinson suffered from a number of complications and underwent some serious procedures, including spending time on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, the fact that she survived and is doing well is a testament to how far transplant surgery has come. “Her story had some unique features because she had a unique form of heart trouble called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which has unique features and made her severely limited,” Ghafourian said.

  • The Washington Post

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    Is jet lag good for you? Could be — at least it’s great for fruit flies

    The study by researchers at Northwestern University found that fruit flies carrying a gene for Huntington’s disease appeared to receive a protective boost against the brain-damaging illness when researchers changed the insects’ sleep cycles in a way similar to jet lag. The team also found that silencing a circadian clock-controlled gene produced a similar benefit. “It seems counterintuitive, but we showed that a little bit of stress is good,” Ravi Allada, a physician who heads the neurobiology department at the university’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Pathology, said in a statement. “We subtly manipulated the circadian clock, and that stress appears to be neuroprotective.”

  • CNN

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    Surgery tied to 44% increased survival in women with advanced breast cancer

    n other words, more research is needed to determine whether those factors are influencing the new study’s findings, since databases — like the one used in the new study — can sometimes suffer from selection bias. “The question of a benefit for surgery can only be answered by a prospective randomized trial,” Morrow said.She added that another researcher in the field, Dr. Seema Khan, a professor of cancer research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, has been leading such a trial.
    “We eagerly await the results,” Morrow said.

  • USA Today

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    One hour a week of physical activity can hold off disability, study says

    The goal of the study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, was to determine whether there was a minimum amount of activity older adults could enjoy to see some health benefits. “Even though it’s well known physical activity can help prevent disability, for many people, they’re just inactive, and it’s daunting to get started,” said Dorothy Dunlop, lead author of the study and professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview with USA TODAY.

  • HealthDay

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    Most Parents Want Age Limits on Football Tackling

    In fact, among kids under age 12, a greater percentage of concussions occur during play — like riding bikes or running around playgrounds — than during organized sports, said Dr. Cynthia LaBella. LaBella, who wrote an editorial published with the study, is medical director of the Institute for Sports Medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She said it’s important for parents to be aware of signs and symptoms of concussion and when to seek medical help. But they should also keep the risk of sports-related concussions in perspective, she added.

  • U.S. News & World Report

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    One Short, Brisk Walk a Day May Keep Arthritis at Bay

    Less than 10 minutes a day of brisk walking can help prevent disability in people with arthritis pain in their knee, hip, ankle or foot, researchers report. Just one hour a week of brisk physical activity “is less than 10 minutes a day for people to maintain their independence. It’s very doable,” said lead study author Dorothy Dunlop. She’s a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “This minimum threshold may motivate inactive older adults to begin their path toward a physically active lifestyle with the wide range of health benefits promoted by physical activity,” Dunlop added in a university news release.

  • USA Today

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    Anti-vaxxers open door for measles, mumps, other old-time diseases back from near extinction

    Mumps and pertussis (whooping cough) have been on the rise in recent years, and the previously devastating tuberculosis is still causing trouble, though not at the rate it once did. “Recently, we’ve been seeing an uptick in a whole different variety of infectious diseases, and that includes diseases we previously thought we had beat. Measles is probably the No. 1 example,’’ said Judd Hultquist, assistant professor of infectious diseases at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

  • HealthDay

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    Heart Failure Hospitalizations Spike When Flu Season Peaks

    The new study “really does raise our attention yet again that there is an inescapable association between influenza and heart failure,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “That is an awareness that should not be overlooked, because the older population is particularly vulnerable to influenza.” There are a couple of potential ways that flu might increase risk of heart failure, said study co-author Dr. Scott Solomon, a professor with Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

  • Associated Press

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    ‘Short sleepers’ get 4 hours a night and feel fine. But is their health at risk?

    There are an “amazing amount of gaps” in our knowledge of sleep, said Paula Williams, a clinical health psychologist who studies sleep at the University of Utah. In the meantime, many of us are pushing our luck. Kristen Knutson, a biomedical anthropologist at the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said about 30 percent of adult Americans now qualify as short sleepers, compared with about 20 percent in the 1970s. She thinks longer commuting times are likely a factor as well as extra time spent on computers and smartphones, distractions that didn’t exist 50 years ago.