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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Reuters
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Top heart doctors warn proposed NIH cuts would be catastrophic
“I’m a little concerned that there hasn’t been a complete eruption that the NIH is being targeted for such substantial cuts. This is a landmine waiting to explode,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, a former American Heart Association president. “Laboratories will be shut down; personnel would be released; ideas would be left incomplete; proposals would go unaddressed. We just can’t afford to have the pace of scientific discovery slowed down like this,” said Yancy, from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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TODAY
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Thinking about signing up for spin class? Read this warning first
While it’s important to know the symptoms of rhabdomyolysis, Dr. Susan Quaggin stressed that she doesn’t want people to become so scared they stop working out. “Lots of people spin and we’re not seeing an epidemic of people coming to the hospital with rhabdomyolysis,” said Quaggin, chief of the department of nephrology and hypertension and director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute at Northwestern University. “We don’t want hysteria. We don’t want people to stop doing exercise.” Rhabdomyolysis is less likely if people are fit, she said. She also reminded spinners to make sure they stay hydrated and to talk to their doctor if they start to develop any warning signs. “There’s a big risk if you don’t seek medical attention,” she said. “Electrolyte imbalances can be fatal, particularly potassium which is released into the bloodstream when muscle cells break down. Potassium can then go very high and can cause the heart to stop.”
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Chicago Tribune
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A third of black women in study of disadvantaged neighborhood have PTSD
A recent Northwestern Medicine study that examined the South Side neighborhood of Oakland found that 29 percent of the 72 African-American study participants have the disorder and an additional 7 percent exhibited a large number of signs that are part of a PTSD diagnosis. Researchers said they believe that points to a need for more mental health services and screenings in poor neighborhoods. “People are struggling severely, and I think that sometimes the negative implications of mental illness are really underestimated,” said Inger Burnett-Zeigler, a clinical psychologist and one of the authors on the study.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Lurie CEO: Race to replace Obamacare putting children at ‘grave risk’
Patrick Magoon, CEO of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
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Huffington Post
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Australia: New Frontiers for Fertility and Young People with Cancer
One of the areas of great importance for advocacy and research in the young adult cancer movement is Oncofertility. What we know is that cancer and its treatment (surgery, chemotherapy and radiation) can affect the ability for a person to have children. Oncofertility (oncology + fertility) is a term that was coined by Dr. Teresa K. Woodruff of Northwestern University to define this area of academic research and practice.
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Reuters
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Prostate, hair loss drugs tied to mental health risk, but not suicide
Tina Kiguradze and William Temps of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and colleagues found that when erectile dysfunction occurred in men taking 5ARIs for at least 180 days, the dysfunction was more likely to last at least 90 days after stopping the medication. Erectile dysfunction, when it occurred, resolved faster in men who took the medications for shorter periods.
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Chicago Tribune
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A Playbook For Managing Problems In The Last Chapter Of Your Life
Lee Lindquist, chief of geriatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, wondered if people could become better prepared for such emergencies, and so she designed a research project to find out. The result is a unique website, planyourlifespan.org, which helps older adults plan for predictable problems during what Lindquist calls the “last quarter of life” — roughly, from age 75 on. “Many people plan for retirement,” the energetic physician explained in her office close to Lake Michigan. “They complete a will, assign powers of attorney, pick out a funeral home, and they think they’re done.”
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Reuters
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Baby gear injuries surging, often due to falls
arriers, for example, aren’t a problem when they’re used properly, said Dr. Elizabeth Powell, a pediatrics researcher at Northwestern University in Chicago who wasn’t involved in the study. “As an ED clinician, I see infants who are not properly restrained, or those who fall from carriers placed on counters, beds or other furniture,” Powell said by email. “While this detail is outside the scope of the report, this is why there are injuries associated with this product.”
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The New York Times
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Cardiovascular Deaths Linked to Poor Dietary Choices
The results suggest that an integrated approach to healthy eating is possible, said Linda Van Horn, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association and a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University, who was not involved in the study. “Typically, the higher the diet is in natural — not processed — plant-based foods, the lower the sodium intake is,” she said. “So by eating more of the favored foods, the detrimental intakes of sodium, as well as trans-fat and saturated fat and sugar, are lower.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Rookie docs can work longer, 24-hour shifts under new rules
Critics of the shorter limit said it short-changed rookie doctors. Dr. Karl Bilimoria, a Northwestern University surgery professor, said some residents have complained that they’ve had to leave work in the middle of surgeries. Bilimoria led a study published last year suggesting that first-year residents could work longer without endangering patient safety or their own well-being.
