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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National Public Radio
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Pregnancy Debate Revisited: To Induce Labor, Or Not?
That rate dropped from 22 percent among the women who weren’t automatically induced to 19 percent for those whose labor was induced. Dr. William Grobman, the study’s first author and a professor of obstetrics at Northwestern University, says it’s an important goal to reduce the rate of cesarean sections in the U.S. So even a small percentage drop in the rate can have benefits overall. But an individual woman might or might not consider that 3-percentage-point drop a big deal. “I think that’s not really for me to decide,” he says.
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HealthDay
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Elective Labor Induction May Cut C-Section Risk
Dr. William Grobman, the lead researcher on the trial, agreed. Childbirth is “an incredibly personal experience,” said Grobman, an obstetrician at Northwestern University, in Chicago. “Women should have accurate information about the benefits and risks of different options for delivery, so they can make informed choices,” he explained. A full-term pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks, and babies born during the 39th week are considered full-term. But elective induction at that point in pregnancy has been controversial — except in special circumstances, such as when a woman lives far from a hospital.
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Reuters
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Even light drinking may make fatty liver disease worse
“The question still remains as to whether wine, particularly red wine (versus beer or liquor), may have some heart and diabetes protective effects in small amounts (no more than 1 glass on average per day) in particular in patients with NAFLD who are at high risk for complications and death from heart disease and diabetes,” said Dr. Lisa VanWagner of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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Associated Press
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Helping Nature: Inducing Labor Avoids Cesarean for Some Moms
Being induced doesn’t mean moms can’t have “natural childbirth” — they can forgo pain medicine or use a hospital’s homelike birthing center rather than delivering in “an operating room in a sterile suite with a big light over your head,” said the study leader, Dr. William Grobman, an OB-GYN specialist at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Everyone has a different definition of what a natural birth is,” said Dr. Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, which participated in the study.
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CBS News
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Too many new moms are dying. Illinois health officials are trying to understand why.
“One of the things that’s most important is educating moms about things that can kill them,” said Paloma Toledo, a committee member who is an obstetric anesthesiologist at Northwestern Medicine’s Prentice Women’s Hospital. By sifting through women’s medical records, pharmacy prescriptions, police data and even what their families tell emergency room personnel — she had complained of a headache, she was foaming at the mouth — they hope to identify potentially preventable deaths and save lives.
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Associated Press
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Patients who accepted infected kidneys cured of hepatitis C
“As long as the patient accepts the risk, I support this,” said Dr. Josh Levitsky, a professor of organ transplantation at Northwestern University who is not part of the team. Getting an infected kidney may outweigh the burden of dialysis, which many patients find physically exhausting, said Dr. Matthew Cooper, a transplant surgeon at Georgetown University Hospital.
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The Wall Street Journal
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New Exercise Wrinkle: It’s Time for Your Face to Work Out
In a small study published earlier this year, researchers at Northwestern University had dermatologists rate the before and after appearance of participants; middle-aged women were deemed to have shaved three years off their appearance after 20 weeks with a 30-minute facial exercise routine. (That is more time than most Americans spend in the regular gym.)
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Chicago Tribune
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‘Inflammatory’ breast cancer doesn’t get any pink awareness, patient and doctor insist
“Roughly 90 percent of the women with this deadly disease are wrongly prescribed antibiotics, which only delays the true diagnosis and proper treatment,” said Dr. Massimo Cristofanilli at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “There is simply not enough awareness of inflammatory breast cancer. More women need to be talking about it.”
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MSN
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Is It True That the Weather Can Cause a Migraine?
It’s worth noting that it’s tough to pinpoint weather as an actual trigger for some people’s migraines, Paul Later, M.D., a neurologist at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, tells SELF. There are plenty of other factors you deal with every day that can also influence this condition, like how well you sleep, what you eat, where you are in your menstrual cycle, and how stressed you are. It could be that those things are causing your migraines, and any simultaneous weather changes are a coincidence, Dr. Later says.
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USA TODAY
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3D-printed guns might be inevitable. But are they a practical weapon of choice for criminals?
Linda Teplin, a Northwestern University psychiatry professor who studies the correlation of firearms violence, public health policy and criminalization of the mentally ill, said 3D-gun blueprints could lower the bar for accessibility to weapons. She predicted “perpetrators of mayhem” would take advantage. “No restrictions, background checks or serial number?” Teplin said. “Now, guns are available to anyone – even a child – who can use a computer and has a 3D printer. We cannot reduce the epidemic of firearm violence if we increase the availability of guns.”
