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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Northwestern Engineering Team Pioneers New Medical Technologies
What makes this possible is a new generation of flexible electronics pioneered by professor John Rogers who leads the Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics at Northwestern University. Rogers got his start at Bell Laboratories. “We were working on technologies for flexible displays in those days,” he said. “Electronic newspapers, something like that. … That’s kind of how I got my start in flexible electronics. When I moved from Bell we were approached by a group of neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania wanting to know if we could take our flexible display circuits and put them on a brain.”
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WTTW
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Lack of E-Cigarette Regulations Complicates Explanation for Lung Illnesses
“There’s really no standardized consensus on what goes into the product, or how they are being manufactured and regulated,” said Dr. Samuel Kim, associate professor of surgery in thoracic surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “Any manufacturer could put their own substance into these. Nobody really knows exactly what goes into these products and, frankly, the health effects associated with them.” Kim says vaping itself is often misunderstood. It’s a way of inhaling a heated, aerosolized substance generally containing nicotine or THC in vapor form. The cartridges can often be flavored, which has led to skyrocketing rates of use among young people.
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National Public Radio
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How A Prenatal ‘Bootcamp’ For New Dads Helps The Whole Family
With that focus, “Dad’s parenting questions can fall to the wayside,” says Dr. Craig Garfield, a professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. And the lack of attention to a new father’s needs can have ripple effects that impact the whole family — in the short-run and later, Garfield says.
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U.S. News & World Report
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AHA News: Education Seems Tied to Death Risk for Heart Disease Patients
Social determinants of health represent “a phenomenon outside of biology and genetics, outside of traditional risk factors,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, professor and cardiology chief at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “When you deconstruct the social determinants of health, one of the most important variables is education – along with income, housing density, violence and stress,” said Yancy, who was not involved in the study but co-authored a report from the American Heart Association about the influence of social factors on cardiovascular disease. The study demonstrates a need for doctors to “listen more,” Yancy said.
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USA Today
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Atlanta woman has an antidote for burnout – napping for self-care and social justice
Vikas Jain, a sleep medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, said most working adults don’t make time for naps. But he recommends midafternoon naps, especially for people who get less than seven hours of sleep at night. Jain said the naps should be no longer than about 30 minutes. “The communal napping is a newer idea but I like the idea of trying to eliminate the stigma that surrounds sleep,” Jain said. “People don’t want to come forward and let anyone know they are tired … and we are trying to cram so much into our day that we’re not taking care of ourselves.”
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WBEZ
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New Study Sheds Light On How White Parents Can Prevent Racial Bias
A new study from Northwestern University found that the more white parents recognized racial bias in the world, the more likely they were to talk with their children about current racial events.
Morning Shift talks with co-author Sylvia Perry about the study’s potential implications for interventions to address racial bias and discrimination in kids.
GUEST: Sylvia Perry, assistant professor of psychology at Northwestern University -
HealthDay
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Prior Pregnancies May Affect Your Tummy Tuck
Pregnancy-related widening and thinning of the belly muscles may reduce the effectiveness of tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) surgery, researchers found. This is especially true in women who’ve had multiple pregnancies. But Dr. Gregory Dumanian and colleagues at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago said there may be a fix. In certain cases, an alternative approach that follows the principles of hernia repair may be successful, the researchers found.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Rising Obesity Rates Undermining Strides Made Against Heart Disease
“These findings are surprising and alarming, because despite medical and surgical advances and public policy initiatives around cholesterol and blood pressure awareness, we are losing ground in the battle against cardiovascular disease,” said lead researcher Dr. Sadiya Khan. She is an assistant professor of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. “The culprit may be the rise in obesity,” she added, though the study could not prove that definitively. “One of the greatest success stories of the past century has been the marked reduction in cardiovascular disease death rates,” Khan said.
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Reuters
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Cancer doctors don’t focus on lifestyle risks
The survey of doctors from a Midwestern health system found that oncologists were far less likely than primary care physicians to offer advice on health promotion strategies, such as weight loss and smoking cessation, researchers reported in the journal Cancer. With oncologists reticent to offer advice on lifestyle changes, the onus may fall upon patients to bring the topic up and to find ways on their own to address changes, said study coauthor Bonnie Spring, a professor of preventive medicine, psychiatry, psychology and public health and director of the Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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USA Today
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Spaceflight alters gut bacteria in the same ways, every time
Northwestern University researchers found that spaceflight has a consistent effect on gut bacteria. After comparing data from mice in space and studies on Earth using a tool they developed called STARMAPS, they found something surprising. The cause of changes in gut bacteria during spaceflight isn’t radiation.
