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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WTTW
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How Risky is Eating Red Meat? New Papers Provoke Controversy
Video: A conversation with Bethany Doerfler, a registered dietitian and researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
NEW YORK (AP) — Eating red meat is linked to cancer and heart disease, but are the risks big enough to give up burgers and steak?
A team of international researchers says probably not, contradicting established advice. In a series of papers published Monday, the researchers say the increased risks are small and uncertain and that cutting back likely wouldn’t be worth it for people who enjoy meat. -
Reuters
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Sciatica common, tied to other conditions in older U.S. adults
Previous research has shown that sciatica is common, but the current study looks at how the disorder affects patients over the years, said Dr. Joseph Maslak of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, who led the study while a surgical resident at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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The New York Times
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Donate Your Health Care Data Today
Machine learning was recently shown to detect early lung cancer more accurately than human radiologists. In May 2019, Google and Northwestern Medicine teamed up to apply a deep-learning algorithm to 42,290 patient CT scans to predict one’s likelihood of lung cancer. Because the images are difficult to read, Google and Northwestern’s study developed a machine-learning model to read them, then compared the results with those of six experienced radiologists. According to the study, the machine-learning model was able to detect cancer 5 percent more often than the radiologists and was 11 percent more likely to decrease false positives.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Gene-Based Therapy Helps Fight Advanced Prostate Cancer
Along with that delay, the drug slowed down patients’ pain progression. “Delaying the cancer from growing is meaningful,” said Dr. Maha Hussain, who led the trial, which was funded by drug makers Astra Zeneca and Merck. “At the end of the day, patients want to live longer, and also better,” added Hussain, a professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. She was to present the findings Monday at the annual meeting of the European Society for Medical Oncology, in Barcelona. Studies reported at meetings are generally considered preliminary until they are published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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CNN
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Experimental prostate cancer therapy delays disease in ‘landmark’ trial
Castrate-resistant prostate cancer means that the cancer keeps growing even when the amount of testosterone in the body has been reduced to very low levels. HRR genes include the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, as well as others known to raise the risk of certain cancers. “This is a landmark trial and potentially practice-changing for men with advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer — the deadly phase of the disease,” said Dr. Maha Hussain, deputy director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and first author of the trial.
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Chicago Tribune
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Fighting physician burnout earns Northwestern, other medical groups recognition from AMA
The American Medical Association this week recognized three Illinois health systems as workplaces making strides toward improving an issue they say is causing doctors to leave their profession — burnout. Heartland Health Centers, Northwestern Medicine and Oak Street Health received the Joy in Medicine Recognition in its inaugural year, along with 19 other hospitals and medical groups across the country.[…]“We view this as a platform and a starting place,” Logan Pause, program director at Northwestern Medical Group, said of earning the recognition for work to combat physician burnout. “By no means do we believe we’ve arrived.” Dr. Gaurava Agarwal, director of physician well-being at Northwestern Medical Group, said the company has recently developed programs “to create that fulfilling environment so physicians can do what they’re called to do.”
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WebMD
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Americans Are Still Eating Too Many ‘Bad’ Carbs
Linda Van Horn, who heads the nutrition division at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, co-authored an editorial published with the study. She agreed that convenience is a powerful force in the national diet, as is advertising. “Access to snacks, desserts, sugary beverages, pizza, sandwiches and other grab-and-go foods is far greater and more highly marketed than fruits, vegetables, whole-grain foods, and unsalted nuts and seeds,” Van Horn said.
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CBS News
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Advocates sound the alarm about vaping dangers on Capitol Hill
Dr. David O’Dell, of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said vaping has changed the way physicians work. “As we’re learning more and more particularly about the near term and potential long term dangers of vaping and e-cigarette use, it’s now a question I ask patients routinely,” O’Dell said. Right now, the CDC is calling on people to consider refraining from vaping. But one congressman said Tuesday that was too weak, and that the government should simply say vaping can cause death.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Chiropractic Care During Pregnancy: Is It Safe?
Chiropractic treatment as an option to treat pain is particularly important for pregnant women because there are many pain medications they shouldn’t use because they could adversely affect their baby, says Dr. Heather L. Beall, an OB-GYN with Northwestern Medicine in Crystal Lake, Illinois. “You don’t want (pregnant women) to use chronic pain pills because they’re addictive,” Beall says. Such medications could cause the baby to go into withdrawal when he or she is born. Some non-steroidal pain medications could cause the fetus’s heart valve to close prematurely, which could be life-threatening, she says.
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Reuters
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Carbs like sweets, fries, white bread remain staples of U.S. diet
Still, some changes for the better found in the study should help move Americans’ health in the right direction, said Linda Van Horn, author of an editorial accompanying the study and chief of nutrition at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Diets that are high in ‘complex’ or naturally occurring dietary carbohydrates are higher dietary quality than ‘refined’ carbohydrates that are processed and depleted of most of the vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber that are inherent in the naturally occurring carbs,” Van Horn said by email.
