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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Huffington Post
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Suicide Is A Leading Cause Of Death For New Moms But Awareness Is Low
More often than not, women with postpartum psychosis, and those who’ve considered self-harm, need to be hospitalized so they can be in a protective environment while they wait for medication to kick in, Dr. Crystal Clark, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences with Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, told HuffPost. “For moderate to severe postpartum depression, the gold standard of care is psychotherapy and medication. Someone with milder symptoms may not ever need medication,” Clark said. “Postpartum psychosis absolutely requires medication, you can’t do therapy with this and be done.”
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The Washington Post
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The Health 202: The government is opening the doors to its big new genetics library
Private genetics companies don’t necessarily seek out underrepresented populations — they serve customers who come to them and typically have enough resources to invest in exploring their genetic makeup. While the cost of genome sequencing has been rapidly coming down over the past decade, some of the services these companies provide can cost hundreds of dollars. “Most of the corporate world doesn’t really have that kind of emphasis,” said Rex Chisholm, a cell and molecular biology professor at Northwestern University who has helped advise the “All of Us” project. “Most of the databases are built on people of European ancestry.”
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NBC News
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Unusual cases of rare eye melanoma puzzle doctors in two states
Most eye melanomas form in the part of the eye you can’t see when looking in a mirror so they can be difficult to detect. To make matters worse, they often present without any early signs or symptoms. “Oftentimes patients are asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis and the cancer is diagnosed on a routine eye exam,” said Dr. Sunandana Chandra, melanoma medical oncologist at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. “That’s why it is so important to see your ophthalmologist regularly.”
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CNN
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These 5 healthy habits could help you live a decade longer, study suggests
The findings should encourage and motivate people to adopt a healthier lifestyle, said Dr. Douglas Vaughan, chairman of the department of medicine in Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study. Though the study highlighted how the combination of all five lifestyle factors could help prolong life expectancy, Vaughan pointed out how each individual factor also was tied to a reduced risk of premature death. “It looks like cigarette smoking has a more powerful effect than the other lifestyle changes or behaviors. Certainly, maintaining a reasonable body-mass index is a great way to protect oneself against the development of diabetes,” Vaughan said.
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TODAY
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These 5 simple lifestyle changes could add more than a decade to your life
The straightforwardness of the healthy lifestyle was surprising to Dr. Douglas Vaughan, chair of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. “It’s remarkable how simple those interventions are,” said Vaughn.
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WebMD
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Don’t Rely on Plastic Surgeons’ Online Reviews
Online reviews of surgeons who perform cosmetic plastic surgery may be unreliable, researchers say. The researchers examined 1,077 online reviews about breast augmentation surgeons that were posted by people in six large U.S. cities. There were 935 positive and 142 negative reviews. “We found the people who write these reviews are either very happy or unhappy, so it’s difficult for the consumer to get balanced information,” said senior study author Dr. John Kim, a professor of plastic surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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CNN
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Blue lights like that from smartphones linked to some cancers, study finds
But exposure to other kinds of outdoor artificial light — such as those that are high in the red and green portions of the visible spectrum — was not positively associated with the development of either type of cancer, the study states. “That finding was unexpected but suggests that it is really the blue light that is important for cancer rather than just general brightness of light,” said Kristen Knutson, associate professor of neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who was not involved in the new study.
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HealthDay
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Take online reviews about plastic surgeons with a grain of salt, study suggests
Online reviews of surgeons who perform cosmetic plastic surgery may be unreliable, researchers say. The researchers examined 1,077 online reviews about breast augmentation surgeons that were posted by people in six large U.S. cities. There were 935 positive and 142 negative reviews. “We found the people who write these reviews are either very happy or unhappy, so it’s difficult for the consumer to get balanced information,” said senior study author Dr. John Kim, a professor of plastic surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Take Online Reviews of Plastic Surgeons With a Grain of Salt
The researchers examined 1,077 online reviews about breast augmentation surgeons that were posted by people in six large U.S. cities. There were 935 positive and 142 negative reviews. “We found the people who write these reviews are either very happy or unhappy, so it’s difficult for the consumer to get balanced information,” said senior study author Dr. John Kim, a professor of plastic surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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CNN
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What the Golden State Killer case means for your genetic privacy
Genetic testing appears to be an evolution in the “when the product is surprisingly cheap, you are the product” ethos: You are very much the product of commercial genetic testing companies while footing the bill, as reported by the authors of a 2014 article in The New England Journal of Medicine. “23andMe has … suggested that its longer-range goal is to collect a massive biobank of genetic information that can be used and sold for medical research and could also lead to patentable discoveries,” wrote George J. Annas, a legal scholar at Boston University School of Public Health, and Dr. Sherman Elias of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
