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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Lurie Children’s Hospital CEO retiring
Longtime Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago CEO Patrick Magoon is retiring, the hospital announced today. Magoon, 66, started at the hospital as an intern, working his way up to spend 22 of his 42 years there at the helm. He’ll be replaced by Dr. Thomas Shanley, who currently serves as chair of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, as well as president and chief research officer at Lurie’s Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, according to a statement. Shanley will be selected to succeed Magoon by Lurie’s board at its annual meeting in December. Magoon will support the transition for one year starting Jan. 1.
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Chicago Tribune
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Commentary: Sudden unexpected infant death: An invisible killer
By NIA HEARD-GARRIS AND KYRAN QUINLAN In Chicago, the summer seems to shine a spotlight on the deaths in our city. Though gunshot fatalities in Chicago are down for the year, one summer weekend earlier this year was particularly violent, with 52 people shot, eight of them fatally, and another two people fatally stabbed. Yet in the news reports of deaths in Chicago, an invisible killer of babies is rarely included. SUID, or sudden unexpected infant death, claims about 44 lives per year here.
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HealthDay
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For Asthmatic Kids in Tough Neighborhoods, Family Is Key
It’s known that neighborhood environmental factors such as pollution and allergens can affect the wheezing and breathing children with asthma. But less has been known about the impact of social conditions such as family relationships. In this study, Northwestern University researchers looked at children with asthma who lived in different Chicago neighborhoods. “We found significant interactions between neighborhood conditions and family relationship quality predicting clinical asthma outcomes,” said lead author Edith Chen, a professor of psychology.
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CNN
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Testosterone can enhance libido in postmenopausal women, new research says
“Those of us from the sexual medicine world have been using testosterone for women off-label for a very long time, appreciating the fact that while there has been no FDA-approved testosterone for women, we have very good data to show that it is safe and it is effective in some women,” said Dr. Lauren Streicher, a clinical professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause in Chicago, who was not involved in the new paper.
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Chicago Tribune
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Having a paying job may help fend off Alzheimer’s disease in women
Dr. Tamar Gefen, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University, said the results of Mayeda’s study align with existing research on factors that lower the risk of late-life cognitive decline. “There is evidence in the literature suggesting a limited number of factors that can perhaps lower the risk of developing cognitive impairment in later life. This includes aerobic exercise, healthy nutrition, mental activity and engagement,” Gefen said in an email interview.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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NU gets $46M to accelerate research into treatments
Northwestern University Clinical &Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) got a five-year, $46 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The institute’s mission is to improve health by accelerating the translation of discoveries into real-world cures and treatments, the university said in a statement. As part of the new funding, NUCATS will continue to contribute to digital research infrastructures across Northwestern and its clinical partners, the statement said. The money will help enhance Study Tracker, Northwestern’s clinical trials management system, to improve recruitment and efficiency so patients can participate in research more easily and fully.
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Reuters
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Many deadly common cancers get little charity funding
Part of the mismatch may be because nonprofit organizations need to appeal to donors, said Dr. Suneel Kamath, lead author of the study. “Donors in the general public think, ‘Why am I funding research to find a cure for a disease that people caused themselves – if they die, it was their fault,’” said Kamath, who did the work while at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “I’m going to target my money to a disease that happens to ‘good people’ with ‘clean living’ who just had bad luck.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Screen Every Pregnant Woman for Hep B: Task Force
“Screening for hepatitis B in pregnant people can protect babies from lifelong chronic conditions, such as liver cancer or liver disease,” task force member Dr. Melissa Simon said in a task force news release. “This is essential because the primary source of hepatitis B in children is transmission at birth,” explained Simon, vice chair of clinical research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Early detection means that doctors can take steps to reduce the risk of hepatitis B transmission from mother to child.
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Chicago Tribune
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Vitamin devotees should shift their loyalty to lifestyle changes, experts say
Dr. Jeffrey Linder, chief of internal medicine and geriatrics at Northwestern Medicine, wasn’t surprised by the results, which corroborated and combined years of prior research while putting a spotlight on cardiovascular health. “This new study confirms what we’ve been thinking all along: that there are very few, if any, supplements or vitamins that people should take as long as you’re eating a healthy diet,” Linder said. “Every time scientists have compared taking a supplement of something versus getting it through food, getting it through food wins every time.” Food, Linder said, contains both minerals and vitamins that the body is “built and designed to absorb.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Many Americans Take Antibiotics Without a Prescription
Dr. Ruchi Gupta is a professor of pediatrics and medicine with the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Using antibiotics without a prescription is dangerous for many reasons,” said Gupta, who wasn’t involved with the study. To avoid these dangers, she added, “getting a proper diagnosis and appropriate treatment are essential.” But is antibiotic misuse on the rise? “It’s hard to say, because this is an understudied problem. But what we can say is that it is a problem,” Grigoryan said.
