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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Special Alzheimer’s program helps couple deal with the disease
Margaret and Mark Zumdahl have made countless memories during their 25-year marriage, but Margaret, who lives with Alzheimer’s, is slowly starting to lose those memories. Thanks to a special program at Northwestern’s Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, the couple is receiving help to deal with the disease.
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Business Insider
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Scientists discovered a ‘kill switch’ that destroys cancer cells in mice
“It’s like committing suicide by stabbing yourself, shooting yourself and jumping off a building all at the same time,” said lead study author Marcus Peter in a statement published via the Northwestern University website. “You cannot survive.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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6 Surprising Signs You May Have MS
“If someone develops numbness, tingling or weakness after a workout, and it’s only on one side of the body, that might indicate MS,” says Dr. Elena Grebenciucova , neurologist and MS expert at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “The numbness or tingling could be mild or so severe that it makes walking difficult. If it’s MS, it’s usually a temporary condition brought on by rising body temperature. Once you cool down, the symptom usually subsides, but it shouldn’t be ignored,” Grebenciucova says.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Kids’ Food Allergies, Especially to Peanuts, Are on the Rise
The number of U.S. children allergic to peanuts has increased by 21 percent since 2010, with nearly 2.5 percent of youngsters now having this type of allergy, a new study has found. “According to our data, the risk of peanut allergy was nearly double among black children relative to white children,” study co-author Christopher Warren said in a news release from the college. Study lead author Dr. Ruchi Gupta
acknowledged that peanut and other food allergies can be “very challenging for children and families,” but “the good news is that parents now have a way to potentially prevent peanut allergy by introducing peanut products to infants early after assessing risk with their pediatrician and allergist.” Both Gupta and Warren are researchers from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. -
Wall Street Journal
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Scientists Use New Crispr System to Edit RNA in Human Cells
“Crispr editing of RNA creates more opportunities for things we can do therapeutically,” says Elizabeth McNally , director of the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who wasn’t involved in the study but is working on efforts to use the Crispr system to treat forms of muscular dystrophy and other conditions.
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U.S. News & World Report
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I Was 26 and Diagnosed With Inflammatory Breast Cancer
I moved from Philadelphia to Chicago to run the program he co-directs: the Lurie Cancer Center OncoSET of Northwestern University at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This new initiative combines genomic sequencing and molecular analysis with standard pathology to identify new, individually tailored treatments and clinical trials for patients whose cancers are resistant to traditional therapies. Patients like me.
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CBS News
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Living Stronger: Women race on the water with much more at stake than finishing first
“I think it’s a phenomenal idea,” said Dr. Sarah Friedewald, an oncologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “Being competitive just helps your endorphins and gets your body ready to fight the next fight,” Friedewald said.
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Reuters
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After medical errors, patients want doctors to hear them out
Being open after errors may also help avoid litigation, noted Dr. Gary Noskin , senior vice president and chief medical officer of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a researcher at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “Traditionally, hospitals follow a ‘deny and defend’ strategy providing a paucity of information to patients,” Noskin, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.
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The New York Times
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Choosing the Best Moisturizer for Your Skin
Those are good but hard-to-answer questions, says Dr. Shuai Xu, a dermatologist affiliated with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. You see, moisturizers and their advertised claims, like all other cosmetic and personal care products, are at best loosely regulated, dependent almost entirely on the integrity of manufacturers to market a safe, effective product and on consumers to holler loudly when a product is neither. Furthermore, as Dr. Jonathan I. Silverberg, who directs Northwestern’s Contact Dermatitis Clinic and Eczema Center, explained, “Much of the labeling of products as hypoallergenic is nonsense. If you use a product long or often enough, you can become vulnerable to an allergic reaction. It’s not that the product is mislabeled – it’s that you can become allergic to almost anything, especially if you have a predisposition.”
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NPR
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How Messing With Our Biological Clock Impacts Well-Being
To a lesser extent, it’s also all those people who just can’t turn off the iPad at night and have to drag themselves out of bed in the morning. Fred Turek , is a circadian scientist at Northwestern University. FRED TUREK: These people are totally out of synchrony. When their body clock is telling them to go to sleep, they have to be awake. And then when they try to go to sleep, their body clock is saying, hey, time to get up.
