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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Huffington Post
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How To Measure Whether Your Child’s Tantrums Are Normal
In the throes of your toddler’s rage, it’s perfectly healthy to wonder whether you’re observing normal childhood behavior, or the beginnings of a behavioral problem. Here’s how to know for sure. Fortunately, there’s a way to measure whether your child’s tantrums are abnormal. The temper tantrum scale, developed by Lauren Wakschlag of Northwestern University in Chicago, identifies normal tantrum behaviors and duration. Her study also highlights red flags parents can use to determine whether their children are acting out more aggressively than expected.
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CNN
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Washington is broken
Dr Matthew Davis, a physician who’s the head of academic general pediatrics at Northwestern University, said CHIP’s vital role was in doubt. “What I have noticed with CHIP is that it puts parents’ and grandparents’ minds’ at ease and it lets us focus on the most important work — which is to let every child be healthy,” Davis said. “Parents who have kids with special or complete health needs are especially concerned that CHIP — that has already been allowed to expire — will never come back,” Davis said.
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US News & World Report
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Why Many Women Unnecessarily Get a Hysterectomy
“The antiquated concept that the uterus is a disposable organ needs to be put to bed,” says Dr. Robert Vogelzang, professor of radiology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “Women who undergo hysterectomies face a number of problems, from early menopause to pelvic floor disorders [which affect a person’s ability to control the muscles in their pelvic floor to have a bowel movement] and sexual dysfunction.” Research has shown that hysterectomy increases the long-term risk of cardiovascular and metabolic conditions, even when the ovaries are conserved, he says.
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Chicago Tonight – WTTW
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Can Apple and Facebook Make Their Products Less Addictive?
While it’s commonplace to hear the internet and smartphones described as addictive, it’s not necessarily medically accurate to use the term – though Dr. Danesh Alam, a psychiatrist and addiction specialist with Northwestern Medicine, says that could change. “There is a developing consensus that there may really be a syndrome. It’s not currently recognized by the scientific community, but I think there is a consensus that’s developing,” Alam said.
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Chicago Tonight – WTTW
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Study: Brain MRI Predicts How Well Deaf Children Learn Language
Hearing is a vital part of learning language. Important for a child’s speech development, it also influences literacy skills. For children born with significant hearing loss, listening and language ability are boosted by a device called a cochlear implant (which amplifies sounds and makes them more clear). “The literacy of deaf children on average in the era before cochlear implants was fourth grade, which is not functional literacy,” said Dr. Nancy Young, medical director of audiology and cochlear implant programs at Lurie Children’s Hospital and Northwestern University professor.
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Reuters
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Greater screen time linked to worsening sleep quality in early childhood
Poor sleep quality can impair mood, performance and health, noted Kristen Knutson, an associate professor of neurology (sleep medicine) at Northwestern University. “We need to understand . . . how to mitigate these effects because people are not going to stop using (electronic devices),” said Knutson, who did not work on the German study.
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Reuters
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Yoga face-toning might compete with fillers and facelifts
To his toolbox of Botox, fillers and plastic surgery, cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Murad Alam has added a new, low-cost, noninvasive anti-aging treatment: facial yoga. Dermatologists measured improvements in the appearance of the faces of a small group of middle-age women after they did half an hour of daily face-toning exercises for eight weeks, followed by alternate-day exercises for another 12 weeks. The results surprised lead author Alam, vice chair and professor of dermatology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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Reuters
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U.S. doctors not certain all kids need scoliosis screening
Long-term studies also haven’t proven how much routine screening can help reduce the number of adults with scoliosis who suffer from breathing problems, back pain, disability or reduced quality of life, the Task Force points out. Parents should still see a doctor if they’re concerned that their child might have scoliosis, said Dr. John Francis Sarwark, author of an accompanying editorial in JAMA and a researcher at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
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The New York Times
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A Heart Risk Factor Even Doctors Know Little About
No one knows precisely what purpose lp(a) serves in the body, though some scientists speculate that it may have a beneficial role such as helping to repair injured cells or preventing infections by binding to pathogens in the blood. But the downside of excessive lp(a) is clear: It accelerates the formation of plaque in the arteries, and it promotes blood clots. “It’s sort of a double whammy,” said Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, a cardiologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who helped write the American Heart Association’s cholesterol guidelines. “Biologically, lp(a) both gets into the artery wall and causes damage there more easily.”
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USA Today
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The part of aging that people don’t talk about — and 5 ways to deal with it
Looming over everything is the loss of the future that an older adult and his or her family imagined they might have, often accompanied by anxiety and dread. This pileup of complex emotions is known as “anticipatory loss.” “The deterioration of function, disability and suffering have their own grieving processes, but helping families deal with that isn’t built into the health care system,” said Dr. John Rolland, professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and author of “Families, Illness and Disability: An Integrative Treatment Model.”
