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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.

  • Health

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    How to Stop Itching Your Skin If You Have Eczema

    “Don’t scratch” is probably one of the best—and worst—pieces of advice an eczema patient can receive. The skin condition, which is caused by an abnormal immune reaction that results in dry, red, cracked patches of skin, is only made worse by itching. Your nails damage the skin barrier, which then ramps up inflammatory molecules that exacerbate the itch, explains Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

  • Live Science

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    Trying to Conceive: 12 Tips for Women

    The most important advice for a woman who wants to get pregnant is to get to know her body, specifically her menstrual cycle, said Dr. Mary Ellen Pavone, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist and medical director of the IVF program at Northwestern Medicine’s Fertility and Reproductive Medicine in Chicago.

  • Chicago Tribune

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    ‘Where can I fit in?’: Fatherhood gets real at local expectant-dads class

    Expectant fatherhood gets real at the dads-only class at Northwestern Memorial’s Prentice Women’s Hospital, where pediatrician and dad Craig Garfield shares practical information and personal anecdotes, and fields questions about everything from Velcro swaddling blankets (he’s on the fence) to the strange color of a newborn (yes, they can initially look a little blue).

  • Chicago Tribune

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    Even for girls in U.S., female genital mutilation and ‘vacation cutting’ are risks

    Female genital mutilation is an umbrella term used to describe various degrees of scraping or cutting female sexual organs, said Dr. Lori Post, a professor in emergency medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who has researched female genital mutilation for decades.

  • Reuters

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    Premature babies often catch up to peers in school: study

    A study following more than 1.3 million premature babies born in Florida found that two-thirds of those born at only 23 or 24 weeks were ready for kindergarten on time, and almost 2 percent of those infants later achieved gifted status in school. “What excites me about this study is that it changes the focus for the clinician and families at the bedside from just focusing on the medical outcomes of the child to what the future educational outcomes might be for a child born early,” Craig Garfield, the first author of the study and an associate professor of pediatrics and medial social sciences at Northwestern Medicine, said in a statement.

  • CNN

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    Study links college students’ grades to sleep schedules

    Staying up late to cram for an early exam may not be doing college students any good, according to a new study focused on college students and their sleep patterns…Kristen Knutson, an associate professor of sleep medicine at Northwestern University and expert in sleep patterns and their relation to health, said the study emphasized an aspect of sleep that people don’t usually think about: regularity.

  • TODAY

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    Pelvic floor disorder affects 1 in 3 women: 5 things you need to know

    Most women have heard of the Kegel, a toning exercise that involves raising and tightening the pelvic floor, that everyone from OB-GYNs to Pilates instructors have called the path to pelvic floor health since the 1940s… Dr. Kimberly Kenton, director of the Women’s Integrated Pelvic Health Program at Northwestern Medicine, said she never recommends strengthening exercises until women have had their pelvic floor muscles evaluated by a professional.

  • NBC

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    7 Ways to Actually Get to Bed an Hour Earlier

    Not getting enough sleep or getting poor quality sleep is associated with a lot of negative outcomes, Phyllis Zee , MD, PhD, Chief of Sleep Medicine in the Department of Neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, told NBC News BETTER. The bottom line, she says: “If you want to enjoy healthy aging get sufficient sleep and at the right time.”

  • Chicago Tribune

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    5 things you might not want to do to your vagina

    “Douching is one of those things we have been trying to get out of women’s sort of ideas about hygiene for a long time,” said Dr. Angela Chaudhari , an obstetrician-gynecologist at Northwestern Medicine. “We actually do think douching is harmful.”

  • Chicago Tribune

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    Doctor depression, suicide slowly coming out of shadows

    Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine last year tapped a psychiatrist to launch a confidential, 24-hour hotline solely for residents and fellows at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. A hospital-wide peer support program also is in the works, said Dr. Joan Anzia , residency program director for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Anzia said doctors often experience that “secondary trauma,” but instead of talking about it, “you tough it out. You don’t share with others when you don’t feel adequate. … It’s a culture of medicine of needing to be the team leader, of not showing vulnerability, of having to be strong for the patient and the team.