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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Depression in pregnant millennial women higher than their mothers’ generation, study shows
Millennial women are more likely to experience depression during pregnancy than their mothers’ generation, according to a JAMA Network Open study. The study was made up of a two-generation cohort: mothers and the mothers’ female offspring who later became pregnant. If a first-generation mother did not have a female offspring, then the pregnant female partners of the mother’s male offspring were included. Seventeen percent of the first generation reported having high depressive symptoms, compared with 25 percent of the second generation, according to the study’s results. Crystal Clark, a psychiatrist and assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said the increase in the likelihood of young women experiencing depression during pregnancy could be because there are not a lot of women in the same age group who have children.
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HealthDay
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Eczema Dramatically Impacts Quality of Life
For some eczema patients, their quality of life is poorer than those who have a wide range of other chronic health issues, including heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure, the researchers added. “The more severe the atopic dermatitis [eczema], the worse the overall health, quality of life and life dissatisfaction,” said study author Dr. Jonathan Silverberg. “I see some of the toughest cases of atopic dermatitis around, so I can’t say I was terribly surprised by this,” Silverberg explained. “But I think most people who don’t live with atopic dermatitis are surprised to hear just how debilitating it can be.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Family members of Dr. Henry Heimlich say Red Cross guidance on choking victims could end in death
Heimlich’s technique is also the only thing Dr. Maura McKay, medical director at the Northwestern Medicine Convenient Care Centers at Central DuPage Hospital, was trained in as well, during basic life support certification courses many doctors take through the American Heart Association. “The only time you do back slaps is in an infant,” McKay said. “But never for adults.” Most Americans who aren’t medical professionals have been able to easily save lives by using the Heimlich in emergency situations, said Janet and Phil Heimlich.
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Reuters
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More women may be experiencing depression during pregnancy
Like Pearson, Inger Burnett-Zeigler believes that a lot of younger women’s depressive symptoms are driven by anxiety. “They’re anxious about expectations around motherhood and balancing that with their other obligations,” said Burnett-Zeigler, a clinical psychologist and an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “A lot of them are feeling overwhelmed and are worried about who is going to help them. They are worried about whether the baby will be OK and whether they will be OK as moms.”
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Chicago Tribune
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What I learned from ‘Queer Eye’ about talking politics with friends and family
I asked Mark Reinecke, chief of psychology for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, about the merits of the Fab Five’s approach. He offered tips on how to have a productive conversation when you don’t agree with someone on a tough topic. According to Reinecke, after being an active listener (not thinking up retorts while the other person talks), it’s important to validate the other person’s perspective before trying to change his or her mind. The conversation might start with: “I can see why you have this view and why it’s important to you. I wonder if there is another way to look at this?”
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The New York Times
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Running After a Heart Attack
“Things have changed a lot from the Eisenhower era of bed rest,” said Dr. R. Kannan Mutharasan, a cardiologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Back then, patients were told to lie in bed and were even given “stool softeners so people didn’t have to strain,” he said. Instead, his long-term recovery involved a fitness routine that includes weight lifting, yoga, Pilates, walking and, yes, running. Today, many doctors prescribe exercise for their patients who have had heart attacks. Any exercise regimen requires careful monitoring and medical supervision. But for many, exercise post-heart attack has been shown to improve quality of life and decrease the risk for another cardiac event.
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Reuters
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PTSD raises heart and stroke risk in World Trade Center cleanup crews
No one knows exactly how PTSD might work to increase the risk of heart disease, but Morabia suspects the psychological condition “may stimulate the production of inflammatory cells that then go into the blood vessels and create atherosclerosis.” One big advantage this study has over previous ones linking PTSD to heart disease is that it followed people over time to see who experienced heart attacks and strokes, said Dr. Mark Huffman of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. Huffman, who wasn’t involved in the study, said future research should look into whether treatment of PTSD would lead to a reduction of cardiovascular events.
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Modern Healthcare
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Dialysis centers are the health industry’s growth story
“In the past, many cases of diabetes were not being adequately controlled,” says Joel Shalowitz, a retired professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and a consultant. “Now more people are getting dialysis treatment earlier. And the federal government has changed reimbursement to make dialysis less lucrative for hospitals. They don’t have the specialization and economies of scale that enable a company like DaVita to be profitable at this.”
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Chicago Tonight – WTTW
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Study: Parental Incarceration Impacts Children’s Health into Adulthood
Children whose parents are incarcerated are more likely to skip needed health care and engage in unhealthy behaviors, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. “When parents are incarcerated, children are serving a life sentence as well, and unfortunately, it shows up in their health behaviors and most likely in other aspects of their life as well,” said Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, lead author of the study and pediatrician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The idea for the study was inspired, in part, by a conversation Heard-Garris had with Dr. Tyler Winkelman, the second author on the study, about whether they should be asking their patients if they had a parent who was incarcerated. “Having a family disruption, whether it be incarceration or divorce, can impact children and their health down the road,” said Heard-Garris.
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HealthDay
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When Parents Do Time, Kids Pay the Price
“The United States has the highest incarceration rates in the world. With the climbing number of parents, especially mothers, who are incarcerated, our study calls attention to the invisible victims — their children,” said lead study author Dr. Nia Heard-Garris. She is a pediatrician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. In the study, the investigators analyzed data from more than 13,000 young adults, aged 24 to 32, across the United States and found that 10 percent had a parent incarcerated during their childhood. On average, these people were 10 years old the first time their parent was imprisoned.
