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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Rural seniors sent to aftercare have higher mortality than urban peers
The new study focuses on a “huge problem,” said Dr. June McKoy, a health services researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Part of the problem may be that it’s very hard to find home healthcare in rural areas for patients finished with post-acute care, McKoy said.
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BBC
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The female scientist who changed human fertility forever
Teresa Woodruff, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and head of the reproductive science department, commented on Miriam Menkin’s work to cure infertility. “I think she can be really thought of as co-equal with John Rock,” Woodruff says. “Not just a technician or a pair of hands, as people have argued, but actually the intellectual person doing the work.”
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Reuters
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Many young women get unnecessary pelvic exams
Even when women don’t think they need pelvic exams or Pap tests, they should still get annual checkups, said Dr. Melissa Simon of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who wrote a commentary accompanying the study.
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The New York Times
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Is the Keto Diet Effective?
A recent survey of registered dietitians named the low-carbohydrate keto diet yet again as the most popular diet in the United States. Powering this diet is fat, and loads of it — all the way up to a hefty 90 percent of one’s daily calories.
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The Wall Street Journal
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Google AI Beats Doctors at Breast Cancer Detection—Sometimes
An initial study using a Google artificial intelligence system suggests the computer predicts breast cancer in mammography scans more accurately that human experts and radiologists. The study from a team of international researchers in the U.S. and U.K. at Google, Deep Mind, Northwestern Medicine, Cancer Research U.K. Imperial Center and the Royal Surrey County Hospital was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
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The New York Times
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A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms
Computers that are trained to recognize patterns and interpret images may outperform humans at finding cancer on X-rays.
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The New York Times
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The Quiet Brain of the Athlete
Top athletes’ brains are not as noisy as yours and mine, according to a fascinating new study of elite competitors and how they process sound. But “making sense of sound is actually one of the most complex jobs we ask of our brains,” says Nina Kraus, a professor and director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University, who oversaw the new study.
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Business Insider
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Lonely, burned out, and depressed: The state of millennials’ mental health entering the 2020s
“Black youths too often receive the messages that their lives are not valued and that they are less deserving of support, nurturing and protection than their peers of other backgrounds,” wrote Burnett-Zeiggler, who’s an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern Medical School.
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USA Today
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‘An important piece of the puzzle’: Scientists discover why gene mutation leads to autism
Scientists at Northwestern University outside Chicago have discovered why these conditions develop in the nascent brain, raising hopes that better treatment for them can be found. “We have solved an important piece of the puzzle in understanding how this mutation causes intellectual disabilities and mental illness,” said Peter Penzes, director of the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment at Northwestern’s medical school and lead author of a paper on the subject that will be published Thursday in the journal Neuron.
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The Wall Street Journal
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A Prescription of Poetry to Help Patients Speak Their Minds
Dr. Joshua Hauser approached the bedside of his patient, treatment in hand. But it wasn’t medicine he carried. It was a copy of a 19th-century poem titled “Invictus.”
