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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National Public Radio
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Too Late To Operate? Surgery Near End Of Life Is Common, Costly
The momentum of hospital care can make people feel as if they’re on a moving train and can’t jump off. The rush of medical decisions “doesn’t allow time to deliberate or consider the patients’ overall health or what their goals and values might be,” said Dr. Jacqueline Kruser, an instructor in pulmonary and critical care medicine and medical social sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Many hospitals and health systems are developing “decision aids,” easy-to-understand written materials and videos to help patients make more informed medical choices, giving them time to develop more realistic expectations.
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Reuters
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Teen sexting may be more common than you think
The safest way for teens to sext is to avoid sharing any pictures they wouldn’t want every person at school to see, said Dr. Matthew Davis, a researcher at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “Because sexts are permanent and so easily sent from person to person, sexts can turn a natural and usually fairly private part of growing up into a public and often emotionally distressing problem,” Davis, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Should You Exercise Your Face?
That idea was recently tested in a small study of middle-aged women that researchers believe was the first research of its kind evaluating whether facial exercises or facial “yoga” might improve skin appearance, thereby helping people look a little younger. “What we found was that when you enroll people into a facial exercise regimen – one that in our case required exercising once a day for 30 minutes for the first 12 weeks, and every other day thereafter – we did in fact get some noticeable improvements in facial appearance,” reported Dr. Murad Alam, a dermatologist and vice chair and professor of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He led the research published last month in JAMA Dermatology. “In particular, we found that the upper and lower cheeks – the central part of the face, if you will – became plumper and fuller over time.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Families affected by fetal alcohol syndrome hope study increases awareness, treatment for ‘invisible’ disease
Dr. Whitney You, Northwestern maternal-fetal medicine doctor, said pregnant patients sometimes ask: “ ‘It’s OK to have a glass of wine at a baby shower, right?’ I tell them no. No amount is safe because we don’t know.” While the message of “no alcohol” is clear in the medical community, You said, it’s important to make sure patients understand why they’re hearing that message. “The way I approach it is, we have so little control over so many things in life. This is the one thing you have control over,” she said.
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Associated Press
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Superagers’ youthful brains offer clues to keeping sharp
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s pretty extraordinary for people in their 80s and 90s to keep the same sharp memory as someone several decades younger, and now scientists are peeking into the brains of these “superagers” to uncover their secret. The work is the flip side of the disappointing hunt for new drugs to fight or prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Instead, “why don’t we figure out what it is we might need to do to maximize our memory?” said neuroscientist Emily Rogalski, who leads the SuperAging study at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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The Washington Post
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Why do we understand so little about breast-feeding?
Health systems are more likely to thwart the establishment and practice of breast-feeding than to teach it. “The vast majority of hospital staff members can’t provide the education about how to breast-feed just after birth that so many women want, so instead, women receive conflicting advice or none at all,” wrote Malika Shah, an assistant professor at Northwestern University who specializes in breast-feeding medicine.
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National Public Radio (Boston)
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New Research Shifts Thinking On Pregnancy Dilemma: Induce Labor At 39 Weeks?
A large, randomized controlled trial has found that healthy, first-time mothers who choose induction at 39 weeks actually had a lower chance of requiring a C-section than women who continued on into their pregnancies and either delivered spontaneously or with interventions. To many who work in obstetrics, the results, presented Feb. 1 at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, were “an unbelievable, stunning finding,” said Dr. William Grobman, the principal investigator on the trial and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Reuters
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Limb amputation rates for blocked arteries vary by race and setting
“Although racial bias may play some role, probably much more important is what hospitals and health systems are used by patients of different races,” said Dr. Joe Feinglass of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who wasn’t involved in the study
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U.S. News & World Report
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Rating Doctors: What You Need to Know
Look for volume. Surgeons who do a high volume of a specific type of procedure are typically good at that kind of surgery, says Dr. Karl Bilimoria, director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. The same principle holds true for nonsurgical physicians who treat a high volume of a particular kind of condition or illness, such as breast cancer, heart disease or diabetes, he says. “The more you do something, the better you are at it.”
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USA Today
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‘Guns don’t kill people; men and boys kill people,’ experts say
Before Kelley fired at children and their caregivers in pews, he had been accused of animal cruelty, stalking, sexual assault and beating his wife and 1-year-old stepson, leaving the boy with a fractured skull. “Everything we know about domestic violence predicted this could happen,” said Lori Post, a researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who studies domestic violence.
