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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Lightfoot Launches Task Force to Combat Sexually Transmitted Infections
Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise across the nation. To combat the increase in STIs locally, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Public of Health are launching a multiyear initiative, starting with a task force aimed at a reducing new syphilis cases.
Below, the full list of task force members.[…]
Brian Mustanski, Ph.D.; Co-Director, Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) -
Reuters
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Many dermatologists need more training on African American skin and hair
Each of the focus groups, which were held at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, consisted of four to 12 people who came from similar backgrounds. Because most of the participants, 74%, had received care at other clinics in the past, the researchers were able to compare patient experiences at a clinic with black dermatologists to clinics where they were seen by doctors of other races. Some patients had experienced clinic visits in which the doctor seemed uncomfortable touching their skin. In fact, some had the experience of doctors avoiding skin contact altogether, examining hair with the end of a pencil or not at all, for example.
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Yahoo! News
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Joe Biden’s former brain surgeon explains why he’s not too old to be president
“They all belong to a sub-group of the population that is privileged. And privileged sub-groups tend to live longer and better than the average,” Olshansky told Politico, categorizing them as “super-agers,” or individuals in their 70s and 80s who have the mental capabilities of people decades younger. Another neuroscientist who studies aging, Northwestern University’s Emily Rogalski, explained to Politico that scientifically, it’s hard to “determine someone’s cognitive abilities simply by knowing someone’s chronological age.”
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Chicago Tribune
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These Northwestern doctors saw 30,000 patients during WWII, sometimes performing 100 surgeries a day. Here’s their story.
The doorway was too narrow for the patient on the stretcher. So the high-powered Northwestern neurosurgeon did the next best thing. He knelt on the ground and tried to pull the patient through the window of the shuttered Algerian resort, which served as a makeshift hospital staffed by Northwestern medical school-affiliated doctors during World War II. During the war, more than 50 Northwestern doctors and dentists, and more than 100 nurses from hospitals across Chicago, formed the 12th General Hospital unit, which set up hospitals and cared for servicemen in Algeria and Italy.
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National Public Radio
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These Engineers Have Found A Way To Use Sweat For Some Medical Tests
PALCA: The analysis is sent electronically to a recording device. The patch can measure the salts in sweat, but Baryia says it can also measure things like glucose, although it’s not clear whether sweat glucose is as informative as blood glucose. The Berkeley team is just one of several working on sweat patches. John Rogers is at Northwestern University.
JOHN ROGERS: We do things without electronics.
PALCA: Rogers says the patch he’s developing with the sports drink company Gatorade uses chemical sensors to measure the sweat. -
WTTW
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4 in 10 Parents Have Limited Access to Grocery Stores, Survey Finds
A community is described as having low access to healthy foods if 10% or more of its residents are low income and live more than a half-mile from the nearest large grocery store. “Better access to grocery stores and fresh fruits and vegetables helps kids be healthier overall, learn better in school and avoid future health issues, such as obesity,” said Dr. Matt Davis, senior vice president and chief of community health transformation at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, which developed survey with the Chicago Department of Public Health.
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Fox News
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UK woman suffers facial burns after eggs ‘exploded’ in her face: ‘It felt like my skin was being ripped off’
New study links eggs to increased cholesterol and a risk of heart disease
Researchers at Northwestern University analyzed 30,000 U.S. adults over three decades and found that eating just three to four eggs per week was tied to increased cholesterol and a 6 percent higher risk of heart disease. -
Crain’s Chicago Business
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Which hospital rating system is best?
“A hospital might rate best on one rating system and worst on another,” Dr. Karl Bilimoria, the study’s lead author and director of Northwestern Medicine’s Surgical Outcomes & Quality Improvement Center, said in a statement. “We wanted to provide information on how to interpret these contradictory ratings so people can better select the best hospital for their needs.” Bilimoria and his team assigned grades to four popular hospital rating systems based on factors like transparency and the potential for misclassifying hospital performance. U.S. News & World Report got a B, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Star Ratings got a C, Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade got a C-minus and Healthgrades got a D-plus.
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The Washington Post
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Major surgeries linked to small decline in mental functioning in older age
The new report offers “good news and bad news,” said Sandra Weintraub, a professor and clinical core director at the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. The good news is that for most people the decline “wasn’t that great,” Weintraub said. “Having said that, it really puts patients between a rock and a hard place if they’re told they need surgery and worry about losing mental function,” Weintraub said.
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The New York Times
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The Impact of Racism on Children’s Health
Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, was the lead author of a 2017 review of research studies looking at the impact of racism on children’s health. Too often, she said, studies control for race without considering what experiences are structured into society by race.
