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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American Health Association
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5 Scary Health Facts to Spook You This Halloween
But once the creepy decorations are put away, some frightening health facts can haunt us year-round – and should prompt us to take action. “There’s been a lot of thought about how you motivate people to change,” said Mercedes Carnethon, a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “Sometimes scare tactics do work, like the anti-tobacco ads that showed the person smoking through a hole in her neck.”
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Newsweek
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Possible Celiac Disease Nanotechnology Treatment Breakthrough Revealed
The technology is owned by COUR Pharmaceutical Development Company, which was co-founded by one of the scientists who developed the treatment, Dr. Stephen Miller of Northwestern University. At the conclusion of the trial, Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda bought the license for the technology’s use in treating celiac disease, in a deal worth up to $420 million. COUR retains rights to the tech for use in the possible treatment of other diseases. “This is the first demonstration the technology works in patients,” said Miller in a Tuesday press release.
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CNN
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New study links e-liquids to lung inflammation
“This is a nice start to hopefully more longitudinal studies with more participants, if able in the future,” said Dr. Maria Rahmandar, pediatrician and medical director of the Substance Use & Prevention Program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, who was not involved in the new study. “Really all we currently know is that the FDA calls propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin safe for ingestion or putting on skin. These have not been deemed safe to inhale,” Rahmandar said.
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The New York Times
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The Silent Heart Attack You Didn’t Know You Had
“A silent heart attack is not always so silent, but its symptoms — mild chest discomfort, heartburn, nausea, shortness of breath — happen to lots of people and are typically attributed to other causes and not brought to medical attention,” Dr. Robert O. Bonow, a cardiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told me. Women, whose symptoms are often vague, are especially unlikely to realize they are having a heart attack.
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U.S. News & World Report
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AHA News: Deadly Heart Problem Might Not Be So Deadly
Higher estimates of HCM-related sudden death stem largely from specialized centers caring for and studying the sickest people, and thus might suggest patients are at considerably higher risk than in reality, said Dr. Robert Bonow, professor of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and a past president of the AHA. At the same time, uncertainty about HCM’s true incidence makes even the new study’s risk calculations imprecise.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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A Northwestern researcher aims to fight the opioid crisis with an implantable device
A Northwestern University researcher known for developing wearable technology got a $10 million federal grant to create a potentially lifesaving implantable device for opioid addicts. John Rogers, one of the world’s top researchers in materials science and a professor at Northwestern, secured the money from the National Institutes of Health to develop the implant, according to a release from the university.
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U.S. News & World Report
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What Causes Kidney Stones?
Kidney stones form when your urine contains more crystal-forming substances than your urine’s fluid can dilute, says Dr. Cybele Ghossein, a nephrologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She’s also a professor of nephrology and hypertension at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Not drinking enough fluids to dilute calcium and other substances in the urine is the most common risk factor for developing kidney stones, she says. But there are others.
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Chicago Tribune
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More people are getting STDs. And more people are finding partners online. Are the two connected?
As far as the rise in cases and a rise in people meeting online, Brian Mustanski is skeptical the two are connected. He’s the director of Northwestern’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Whether the internet has an impact on sexually transmitted diseases is not a new question, he said. Years ago, for example, people discussed whether the ability to meet through chatrooms meant more infections. “This is something that people have been talking about since 2000.”
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CNN
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A stressful pregnancy reduces the chances of having a boy, a study shows
One study found pregnant women under pressure had higher levels of cortisol; those levels were also present in the baby’s amniotic fluid at 17 weeks gestation.
“Stress during pregnancy can be harmful for both mom and baby,” said Laura Berman, assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine. -
ESPN
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‘It’s the dirty little secret that everybody knows about’
Chronic sleep loss has been associated with higher risk for cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, heart attacks, Alzheimer’s, dementia, depression, stroke, psychosis and suicide. As Phyllis Zee, chief of sleep medicine in the department of neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, says, “Sleep deprivation … doesn’t only affect the brain — it affects all your other organs. … Think about it as punching your other organs.”
