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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TODAY
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Eggs may actually be good for your heart, study finds
Dr. Sadiya Khan, a professor of cardiology at Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, was more cautious in her reaction to the new findings. For people who are generally in good health with low cholesterol, eggs may be perfectly fine, Khan said, but others may want to be careful. “I take a personalized approach,” she added. “The most important thing is trying to achieve the best overall diet quality. If eggs are included, the most important thing is, in moderation, and with the caveat that the person be very low cardiovascular risk and have low-serum cholesterol levels — that isn’t most of us.”
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Chicago Tribune
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New efforts to save lives with early detection
To catch it early, Dr. Shohreh Shahabi, chief of gynecologic oncology at Northwestern Medicine, is experimenting with a procedure known as uterine lavage…The Partial Wave Spectroscopic microscope, developed by professor Vadim Backman of Northwestern University, detects changes in chromatin (the bundle of genetic material and protein that makes up chromosomes), alerting doctors to a possible malignancy. Shahabi is working with Backman to test this technology in ovarian cancer.
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USA Today
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As births decline in young women, they keep rising in 40-somethings. Here’s why.
Careers: Many women in their 20s and 30s are completing educations and starting careers. They feel unready, financially and otherwise, to have babies, said Eve Feinberg, assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Studies suggest women maximize their lifetime earnings by delaying motherhood. Partners: Some women wait a long time “to find the right person to have a baby with,” Feinberg said.
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago hospitals aim to boost transplants with ‘lung in a box’
Not everyone, however, is rushing to adopt the technology. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which started doing lung transplants about four years ago, doesn’t see a need to use it at this point, said Dr. Ankit Bharat, the hospital’s lung transplant director. No Northwestern patient has ever died waiting for a lung transplant and the hospital has relatively short wait times, he said. “For us it didn’t make sense to take a marginal lung we would not normally use,” Bharat said. “No doubt it’s a significant advancement in the field, but just because it’s there doesn’t mean that every patient needs it.”
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Chicago Tribune
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LGBTQ male teens use adult dating apps to find a sense of community, study reveals
Data was gathered through online surveys taken by 200 sexually experienced teens in the United States and is the first known study on the topic. “I was surprised we didn’t know this information when we started the study, but a lot of folks don’t do research on people under the age of 18, especially on LGBTQ teens under the age of 18, for a variety of reasons,” said Dr. Kathryn Macapagal, an author on the study and research assistant professor of medical social sciences at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “But we found that teens in this study were super excited that somebody was paying attention with what was going on in their lives and how these apps played a role in their sexual development and coming-out process,” she said.
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National Public Radio
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Yanny or Laurel? Why people hear different things in that viral clip
The short audio clip has sharply divided the Internet since it was posted on Twitter by Cloe Feldman on Monday. Why would people hear two totally different words? To answer this, we consulted experts in how human brains perceive sound. Nina Kraus, a neurobiology professor at Northwestern University, says, “It is not at all surprising to me that two different people will take a sound that is admittedly acoustically ambiguous and hear it differently.” “Acoustically ambiguous” in this case means that it’s a very poor-quality file. That is crucial in explaining why people are hearing different things.
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CNN
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Maintaining a daily rhythm is important for mental health, study suggests
Based on the observational nature of the study, the researchers were unable to show causality, meaning it is unclear whether the sleep disturbances caused the mental health problems or vice versa. “It’s a cross-sectional study, so we can’t say anything about cause and effect or what came first, the mood disorder or the circadian disruption,” said Kristen Knutson, associate professor of neurology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.
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TIME
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13 Ways Being a Night Owl Could Hurt Your Health
“The main role of circadian rhythm is to anticipate what you’re going to be doing at certain points of the day,” says Kristen Knutson, PhD, associate professor of neurology and sleep medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “When there’s a mismatch and you’re not doing what your biology expects at a certain time, your body may not handle it as well; it may not process food or glucose as rapidly, for example.”
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Chicago Tonight – WTTW
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Northwestern’s Tissue Bank Breaking Ground on Digestive Diseases
There’s a new tool in the fight against gastrointestinal diseases – and it’s housed at Northwestern University. The tissue bank, known formally as the Digestive Health Foundation BioRepository, stores blood and tissues samples from patients and their family members who suffer from any digestive disorder treated at the Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Center. Researchers there will use those tissue samples to generate more knowledge around gastrointestinal diseases and to develop new treatment options for these diseases, which affect around 60 to 70 million Americans each year. Dr. Stephen B. Hanauer, co-founder and medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Center, says people who suffer from gastrointestinal diseases “require a great deal of support both emotionally and medically.”
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The New York Times
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Reducing Injury Risk in Youth Sports
Many parents want their children to reap the benefits of sports participation. In addition to socializing with their peers and enhancing self-esteem, sports participation fosters a child’s overall health and bone density and reduces the risk of overweight, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression, risk-taking behavior and teen pregnancy, noted Dr. Cynthia LaBella, pediatric orthopedist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and co-author of an editorial on youth sports injury prevention in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
