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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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Meet the man making tiny, flexible wearable technology
John Rogers, one of the world’s top researchers in materials science, joined Northwestern University from the University of Illinois in 2016. His specialty is tiny, flexible, wearable technology. He recently teamed up with Gatorade to produce a small, flexible skin patch that captures sweat and can tell users how much fluid and electrolytes they’re losing. He’s also partnered with L’Oreal on a tiny device worn on the fingernail that monitors UV exposure. Rogers, 50, lives in Wilmette with his wife and son.
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Reuters
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Mediterranean diet might help ease psoriasis
While the study doesn’t prove that consuming a Mediterranean diet will lessen the severity of psoriasis, “it raises some interesting questions and is provocative,” said Dr. Jonathan Silverberg, an associate professor of dermatology, preventive medicine and medical social sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and director of the Eczema Center at Northwestern Medicine. “Other studies have suggested a connection. So this would be confirmatory of those studies.”
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The New York Times
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The Mystery of End-of-Life Rallies
Dr. Martha Twaddle cited the case of an Illinois woman in her 50s who was reaching end-stage heart failure. She had been barely reactive, but then sat up and asked for a hamburger famous in Skokie. “It’s some enormous hamburger, the size of your face with all this stuff on it. She took two bites and then fell back asleep,” said Dr. Twaddle, a physician associated with the Northwestern Medical Group in Lake Forest, Ill., who has worked in palliative care since 1989. She has had nonreactive patients jolt up to ask for a relative, or share final wishes before they die. “Sometimes they want to give instructions to the family, like, ‘Don’t forget to take care of the car.’ Something mundane but important to them.”
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NBC News
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Why ‘getting lost in a book’ is so good for you, according to science
“Reading, by engaging the brain, may keep the brain active enough to prevent cognitive decline that is associated with a variety of diseases associated with earlier mortality,” explains Avni Bavishi, an MD candidate at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
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Reuters
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New dads need depression screening, too
Still, the results suggest that screening parents during children’s checkups may help spot symptoms of depression in fathers who otherwise might not get assessed or treated, said Dr. Craig Garfield, a pediatrics researcher at Northwestern University and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. “Children thrive when parents thrive,” Garfield, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Could allergy-friendly be the next gluten-free? These food companies think so.
Research is beginning to show that growth in food allergies may be slowing, according to Ruchi Gupta, M.D., a pediatrics professor and director of the Science & Outcomes of Allergy & Asthma Research program at Lurie Children’s Hospital. Scientists at both academic institutions and Silicon Valley startups are racing to untangle the mysteries of the immune system in order to create food allergy vaccines and cures. What’s more, exposure therapy—in which parents and doctors try to gradually increase a child’s tolerance by giving them tiny amounts of a food to which they are allergic—is growing in popularity. So far, though, there’s been no medical breakthrough. “Research takes a long time, and we don’t know if (daily exposure treatments) are a cure because there are no long-term studies,” Gupta says.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern researchers on a big breakthrough: Slowing cancer cell growth
he study, published in June in the journal Nature Communications, also includes researchers from Xiamen University in China, University of Chicago and the University of Washington. Research funding was provided by the Department of Defense and the Veteran’s Administration. “Cancer cells are lethal because they move; they’re alive,” says Karl Scheidt, director of the Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery at Northwestern University, and co-leader of the study. “How do we slow down that process? That has been the Holy Grail to figure out. We’re looking at a completely different way of treating the disease.”
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Reuters
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In the U.S., most blacks may have hypertension by age 55
Even so, the results add to growing evidence suggesting that black adults have an elevated risk of developing hypertension and highlight the importance of early prevention efforts, said Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “It is unreasonable to consider population-wide screening in young adults but it is not unreasonable to appreciate how changes in diet and physical activity may delay and perhaps even reduce the onset of hypertension,” Yancy, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. “Always better to prevent than to treat.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Firefighter Juan Bucio’s death ruled accident, caused by asphyxia and rare heart condition
Lymphocytic myocarditis is an “aggressive response” by the body to a viral infection — like a cold or flu virus — that leads to inflammation of the heart muscle, said Dr. Allan S. Anderson, a cardiologist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “Often what happens is people will have a viral infection that they attribute to a cold,” said Anderson, who specializes in heart failure. “Subsequent to that they develop symptoms of heart muscle dysfunction, they’ll develop congestive heart failure or they’ll start having abnormal heart rhythms.”
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NBC News
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Deaths from liver disease are surging, and drinking is to blame
People so young might not even realize that they can drink themselves to death so quickly, but they can, said liver specialist Dr. Haripriya Maddur of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “Surprisingly, it only takes about 10 years of heavy drinking to actually lead to cirrhosis,” said Maddur, who was not involved in the study. “So when people start drinking in college and they start binge drinking, that can actually lead to end-stage liver disease at a much earlier age,” Maddur told NBC News.
