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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After a concussion, waiting for the sense of smell to return
Alan Shepard, clinical assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern University, explains the problem like this: When a person’s head is struck, as mine was in the motorcycle accident, “the brain can move forward and backward a little bit in whiplash,” like that typical in a car crash, Shepard said. “In so doing it shears across the olfactory nerve.” The olfactory nerve connects the sinuses to the brain and is responsible for our sense of smell. It runs up from the sinuses, then between the skull and brain to get to the spot where the brain processes scent, Shepard said.
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ABC News
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Is running more than 100 miles good for your heart?
Dr. Micah Eimer, co-director of the sports cardiology program at Northwestern Medicine, advises runners to take it slow. “Patients who engage in low and moderate intensity exercise can decrease their risk of atrial fibrillation. However, patients who exercise at the extreme levels of exertion appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation,” Eimer said. Runners can feel it and sometimes notice it if they are wearing a heart rate sensor. “Usually they will return the device assuming that it is malfunctioning,” Eimer said. “After they get the same result on a new monitor, they come to the office, where we diagnose them with atrial fibrillation.”
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ABC News
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Loneliness does more than pull on your heart strings — it may hurt your heart
Over 6 million people live with heart failure in the United States, with over 960,000 new cases diagnosed each year. By 2030, there may be more than 8 million cases of heart failure. “One in five Americans over the age of 40 are affected by heart failure,” Dr. Clyde Yancy, American Heart Association (AHA) spokesperson and chief of the cardiology division at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, told ABC News. It’s a condition that makes the heart unable to pump enough blood to the body, and heart failure already takes up millions of healthcare dollars each year. Research shows that one in four of these 6 million patients with heart failure feel moderate to high levels of social isolation.
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WebMD
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New Guidelines Mean 1 in 3 Adults May Need BP Meds
Some debate has occurred since adoption of the new guidelines regarding risks associated with blood pressure medication, said Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “Whenever there is a change in the approach to a common problem that requires an entire rethink of what has been a standard of care, there’s going to be some argument, some pushback, some hesitancy,” Yancy said. But the new study reveals that the potential benefits of the new guidelines far outweigh the risks, he added.
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TODAY
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Eggs may actually be good for your heart, study finds
Dr. Sadiya Khan, a professor of cardiology at Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, was more cautious in her reaction to the new findings. For people who are generally in good health with low cholesterol, eggs may be perfectly fine, Khan said, but others may want to be careful. “I take a personalized approach,” she added. “The most important thing is trying to achieve the best overall diet quality. If eggs are included, the most important thing is, in moderation, and with the caveat that the person be very low cardiovascular risk and have low-serum cholesterol levels — that isn’t most of us.”
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Chicago Tribune
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New efforts to save lives with early detection
To catch it early, Dr. Shohreh Shahabi, chief of gynecologic oncology at Northwestern Medicine, is experimenting with a procedure known as uterine lavage…The Partial Wave Spectroscopic microscope, developed by professor Vadim Backman of Northwestern University, detects changes in chromatin (the bundle of genetic material and protein that makes up chromosomes), alerting doctors to a possible malignancy. Shahabi is working with Backman to test this technology in ovarian cancer.
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USA Today
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As births decline in young women, they keep rising in 40-somethings. Here’s why.
Careers: Many women in their 20s and 30s are completing educations and starting careers. They feel unready, financially and otherwise, to have babies, said Eve Feinberg, assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Studies suggest women maximize their lifetime earnings by delaying motherhood. Partners: Some women wait a long time “to find the right person to have a baby with,” Feinberg said.
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago hospitals aim to boost transplants with ‘lung in a box’
Not everyone, however, is rushing to adopt the technology. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which started doing lung transplants about four years ago, doesn’t see a need to use it at this point, said Dr. Ankit Bharat, the hospital’s lung transplant director. No Northwestern patient has ever died waiting for a lung transplant and the hospital has relatively short wait times, he said. “For us it didn’t make sense to take a marginal lung we would not normally use,” Bharat said. “No doubt it’s a significant advancement in the field, but just because it’s there doesn’t mean that every patient needs it.”
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Chicago Tribune
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LGBTQ male teens use adult dating apps to find a sense of community, study reveals
Data was gathered through online surveys taken by 200 sexually experienced teens in the United States and is the first known study on the topic. “I was surprised we didn’t know this information when we started the study, but a lot of folks don’t do research on people under the age of 18, especially on LGBTQ teens under the age of 18, for a variety of reasons,” said Dr. Kathryn Macapagal, an author on the study and research assistant professor of medical social sciences at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “But we found that teens in this study were super excited that somebody was paying attention with what was going on in their lives and how these apps played a role in their sexual development and coming-out process,” she said.
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National Public Radio
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Yanny or Laurel? Why people hear different things in that viral clip
The short audio clip has sharply divided the Internet since it was posted on Twitter by Cloe Feldman on Monday. Why would people hear two totally different words? To answer this, we consulted experts in how human brains perceive sound. Nina Kraus, a neurobiology professor at Northwestern University, says, “It is not at all surprising to me that two different people will take a sound that is admittedly acoustically ambiguous and hear it differently.” “Acoustically ambiguous” in this case means that it’s a very poor-quality file. That is crucial in explaining why people are hearing different things.
