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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The New York Times
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Can’t Sleep? Treat Yourself Like a Baby
There was a lack of consistency in the research — many of the studies used a different kind of background noise — and some studies found that if the noise was too loud, it actually interrupted sleep, and could be bad for your hearing. That said, “Clinically, if someone tells me they sleep better with the fan on, that’s perfectly fine, but it’s not something I would recommend to everyone,” said Jennifer Mundt, an assistant professor of neurology specializing in sleep at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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WTTW News
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Average U.S. Life Expectancy Drops One Year, New Report Shows
“A one-year drop, while it sounds small, it is notable. What is really the loss here that these are individuals, some of whom had many productive years of life left and we’re losing ground instead of gaining ground,” said Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “We’re losing ground on life expectancy against the backdrop of better medical therapies, the opportunity for prevention. Despite all of that, we’re seeing losses in life that are disproportionately felt by different members of our community.”
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CNN
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Night owls may be twice as likely as early risers to underperform at work, study suggests
“If evening types have to work in the early morning, they won’t rate their work ability as high as morning types. The reverse would be true as well. If normal business hours were 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., the early morning types would feel worse than evening types,” said Kristen Knutson, an associate professor at Northwestern University, who researches the association between sleep, circadian rhythms and cardiometabolic diseases, including diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. “The underlying mechanism is our internal biological clock that dictates the time of day we perform best,” said Knutson, who wasn’t involved in the research.
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WebMD
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Why Some ‘Super Ager’ Folks Keep Minds Dementia-Free
For years, amyloid plaques have gotten most of the attention as a potential target for Alzheimer’s treatment, said researcher Tamar Gefen, who led the new study. But a body of evidence tells a different story: It’s the buildup of tau — not amyloid — that correlates with a decline in memory and thinking skills, said Gefen, an assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago
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WTTW News
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Special 3-Month Enrollment Period for ACA Runs Through May 15
Dr. Christine Schaeffer, who is also an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, says that since the onset of the pandemic, she’s seen many people lose what insurance they had. “A lot of people who had long-term employment and insurance associated with employment lost their jobs and they subsequently became uninsured,” said Schaeffer.
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The Washington Post
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Life amid the ruins of QAnon: ‘I wanted my family back’
Some psychologists likened the spread of QAnon and the increase in conspiratorial thinking to a global pandemic. “I’ve been practicing for 30 years and this feels very different,” said Nancy Molitor, a clinical psychologist in Chicago and assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “There have always been cults, but this one is a doozy.”
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Illinois struggles to keep track of new coronavirus variants
Across town, Dr. Egon Ozer’s team at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine can process 96 samples—most of which are collected at Northwestern Medicine hospitals and clinics—in four days. But when the lab is running full tilt, they can process 288 a week, Ozer says, noting that the team has relied on funding from Northwestern and the National Institutes of Health, as well as seed grants from private foundations.
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NBC 5 Chicago
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Imaging Reveals How COVID Can ‘Cause the Body to Attack Itself,’ Study Shows
“Many patients with COVID-related musculoskeletal disorders recover, but for some individuals, their symptoms become serious, are deeply concerning to the patient or impact their quality of life, which leads them to seek medical attention and imaging,” Deshmukh, an assistant professor of musculoskeletal radiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine musculoskeletal radiologist, said. “That imaging allows us to see if COVID-related muscle and joint pain, for example, are not just body aches similar to what we see from the flu — but something more insidious.”
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The New York Times
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Clinical Trials Are Moving Out of the Lab and Into People’s Homes
Dr. Mary McDermott, a general internist at Northwestern University who is running the trial, isn’t sure how effective this kind of remote coaching will be. “We cannot assume that remote interventions are going to be the same,” she said. “Or that remote measurements are going to replace everything that we have done in person.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Insight Into Why a Prostate Cancer Therapy Works Better for Black Men
“If a man’s prostate cancer has numerous plasma cells, we found he had improved cancer survival,” said Dr. Edward Schaeffer, chair of urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. […]According to study first author Dr. Adam Weiner, a Northwestern Medicine urology resident, “The finding comes at a time as researchers are discovering plasma cells may play a greater role in cancer immunotherapy than previously thought.”
