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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Chicago Tribune
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First-time mom gets cancer diagnosis, says baby saved her life
Dennis’s presence became known in December 2016, but during the 34-year-old Chicago resident’s 12-week ultrasound in March, a cyst was found on her right ovary. Simon dismissed it, but doctors thought the 19-centimeter cyst warranted surgery immediately. At the time of surgery, the cyst was large enough to touch her liver and made her look as though she were 40 weeks pregnant, according to her gynecological oncologist at Northwestern Hospital, Dr. Wilberto Nieves-Neira.
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The New York Times
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Obesity Is the Main Contributor to Diabetes in Blacks and Whites
The key cause, the researchers determined, is obesity, which is tied to all of these risk factors. “The benefit of capturing these behaviors over time is that we can study how the accumulation of unhealthy risk factors contributes to the development of diabetes,” said the senior author, Mercedes R. Carnethon, an associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University. “Modifiable risk factors matter. The answer is simple, but the strategy to achieve change is complicated.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Have you fallen off your diet yet?
We already know what we need to do to eat better. Forget the noise of the latest dietary study. Linda Van Horn, chief of nutrition in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, broke it down pretty succinctly: Make vegetables, fruits and whole grains your priority. The healthier you eat, the easier it will become to eat healthy. Van Horn said researchers are just starting to understand the scientific underpinnings that explain why cravings typically ebb as consumption decreases.
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CNN
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Should you take statins? Guidelines offer different answers
Over one in five Americans between the ages of 40 and 75 already take a statin to prevent an initial heart attack or stroke, the American study from 2017 estimated. Following either of the guidelines consistently would add millions to that list, and the ACC/AHA recommendation in particular would more than double it. Pencina said that much of the difference — 9.3 million people — includes those under 60 and those with diabetes. Some of these people may have a low 10-year risk, he said, but a relatively high 30-year risk.The guidelines “highlight many, many important similarities much more than it highlights some small differences,” said Dr. Don Lloyd-Jones, a spokesperson for the AHA and a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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ABC News (National)
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Why this part of the holiday season may be particularly risky for your heart
Several studies, in fact, have examined the period between the end of Christmas and the first week or so of the New Year, and determined that this period is linked to an increase in deaths. Experts attribute this to fatal heart issues. “There is some substance to this notion that there is an increase in cardiac deaths associated with the holiday season,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, a former president of the American Heart Association and chief of cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “People are overextending themselves.”
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The New York Times
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The Only Way to Keep Your Resolutions
As recent work by the Northwestern University psychologist Greg Miller has shown, willing oneself to be “gritty” can be quite stressful. Studying about 300 teenagers from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds, Professor Miller found that those who were better at using self-control did have more success when it came to resisting temptations, but at a cost to their health. Their bodies suffered not only from increased stress responses, but also from premature aging of their immune cells.
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Reuters
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Obesity, poverty help explain higher diabetes risk for U.S. blacks
However, there was no longer a meaningful difference in diabetes risk between black and white people once researchers accounted for a variety of factors that can contribute to this disease including obesity, neighborhood segregation and poverty levels, depression, education and employment. “Our work suggests that if we can eliminate these differences in traditional risk factors between blacks and whites then we can reduce the race disparities in the development of diabetes,” said lead study author Michael Bancks, a researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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The Washington Post
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The Long Goodbye: Coping With Sadness And Grief Before A Loved One Dies
“The deterioration of function, disability and suffering have their own grieving processes, but helping families deal with that isn’t built into the health care system,” said Dr. John Rolland, professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and author of “Families, Illness and Disability: An Integrative Treatment Model.” Rolland and several other experts offered advice on how to deal with difficult emotions that can arise with frailty or serious illness.
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Reuters
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Growing number of U.S. hospitals can’t treat kids
“We know that patients want to be treated close to home if possible, but children are not just little adults,” said Dr. Fizan Abdullah, a researcher at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “They have special needs that can often best be treated by a pediatric specialist,” Abdullah said by email. “The objective is to treat the child in the best way possible, with the most expertise, and get them home as soon as possible,” Abdullah said. “Physicians at the referring hospital, or children’s hospital, can then also continue to work with their local provider as needed.”
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National Public Radio
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How Racism May Cause Black Mothers To Suffer The Death Of Their Infants
But David, who at the time was at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and his colleague James Collins at Northwestern University Medical School found that even educated, middle-class African-American women were at a higher risk of having smaller, premature babies with a lower chance of survival. For example, David says, black and white teenage mothers growing up in poor neighborhoods both have a higher risk of having smaller, premature babies. “They both have something like a 13 percent chance of having a low birth weight baby,” he says.
