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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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Livongo takes aim at high blood pressure
Diabetes affects millions of people, which means there are plenty of competitors in the space, including Amazon. “Many players are looking into that sandbox. It’s not only startups, but hospitals, insurance and large tech are beating that drum,” said Dr. Steve Xu, a dermatologist and medical director of Northwestern University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics. “There are a lot companies who want to sell to employers to improve health. The employers are where the money is. That’s where the pain is. For these companies, it’s a rounding error compared to their overall health costs.”
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WTTW
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Study: Surge in Blood Donations Wasn’t Needed After Las Vegas Shooting
A new study by Northwestern Medicine looks at a very specific aspect of that shooting: the amount of blood needed to treat victims, and the amount donated by the public. Their findings show that Las Vegas hospitals had adequate blood supplies to meet patient demand, and that 17 percent of blood donated after the shooting went to waste. “Even with the high volume of blood transfusions, in-hospital supplies and rapid supplementation from local blood suppliers met patient need in Las Vegas,” said Dr. Glenn Ramsey, medical director of the blood bank at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and professor of pathology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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NBC News
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Four in U.K. develop cancer after organ transplant. Is there cause for worry?
“The reports of cancer transmitted at the time of organ transfer to recipients are exceedingly rare,” said Dr. Steven Flamm, medical director of the liver transplant program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “In the U.S. there has been hundreds of thousands of organ transplants, and the number of times this has been reported are close to zero. Still, no screening test is perfect. A mammogram may not pick up a very small cancer. So there is no way to eliminate the risk to zero.”
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MSN
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Male Breast Cancer Is Extremely Rare. This Guy Beat It Twice.
“Breast cancer in men is extremely rare,” says Rena Zimmerman, MD, medical director of radiation oncology at Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital. “But it is the same, pathologically, as breast cancer in women.” According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 833 men are diagnosed with breast cancer, and 2,550 new cases were diagnosed in in 2018. African-American men are more likely to get it than other men, Zimmerman says.
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NBC News
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New program tries to combat America’s opioid addiction crisis by taking back unused pills
Surgeons write 28 million opioid prescriptions each year, but 75 percent of the pills go unused and many end up contributing to opioid addiction. This is a crisis that one hospital hopes to end with a new kind of drug take-back program.
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Fox News
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Pets can judge time, study says
The discovery was made by a team from Northwestern University while studying the medial entorhinal cortex of mice. Located in the mid-temporal lobe, it’s the part of the brain associated with memory and navigation. And since it encodes spatial information in episodic memories, lead study author Daniel Dombecktheorized that it could function as a sort of “inner clock” as well. “There are many similarities between the brains of mice, cats, dogs and humans,” Dombeck told Fox News. “We all have a medial entorhinal cortex (the region we found that may act as an inner clock), so it’s logical to think that this brain region serves a similar function in all of these different species.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Red Sox happy to be asleep at the ballpark
A 2017 paper by Northwestern University researchers Alex Song, Thomas Severini and Ravi Allada published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science examined travel by big league teams from 1992-2011. “We observed that jet-lag effects were largely evident after eastward travel with very limited effects after westward travel,” the authors wrote. “Jet lag impacted both home and away defensive performance. Remarkably, the vast majority of these effects for both home and away teams could be explained by a single measure, home runs allowed.”
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HealthDay
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Does Dyslexia Gene Protect Against Concussions
Researchers looked at the concussion history of 87 football players at Penn State University. They also checked the players for certain genes. The findings suggest that “genotype may play a role in your susceptibility for getting a concussion,” said co-corresponding author Dr. Hans Breiter. He’s a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. “In dyslexia, you tend to have less-defined wiring for processing spoken and written language,” Breiter said in a university news release. “Dyslexics have a problem with that. Their wiring is more diffuse in this system. Future studies could directly test if diffuse wiring is better able to absorb a shockwave than clearly defined wiring.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Mental health care appointments often come with a long wait. 3 ways to cope while help is delayed
“This is an important problem, a large problem, and it’s a problem nationally,” says Mark Reinecke, chief of psychology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. A recent study, co-sponsored by the National Council for Behavioral Health and the Cohen Veterans Network, and conducted by research firm Ketchum Analytics, showed that 94 million Americans have had to wait longer than one week for mental health services.
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HealthDay
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Need Your Botox Working Faster? Make a Face
Simple facial exercises can speed the wrinkle-smoothing effects of botulinum toxin (Botox), according to researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago. “Patients often leave getting their Botox to the last minute,” lead researcher and professor of dermatology Dr. Murad Alam said in a university news release. “If people get their botulinum toxin right before a social engagement or important work event, they may worry it won’t start working in time,” he added. “Speeding up the effects could be important to people.”
