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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MSN.com
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Rowing Can Help You Burn Belly Fat, but You’ll Need to Take Things Up a Notch – Here’s How
To explain that, let’s first define what your metabolism actually is. When we say “metabolism,” we’re actually referring to metabolic rate, which is the way your body turns what you eat and drink into usable energy, and how it stores that energy so you can use it later on. Your metabolic rate is tied to your body composition and muscle mass, said Elizabeth Lowden, MD, bariatric endocrinologist at the Northwestern Medicine Metabolic Health and Surgical Weight Loss Center at Delnor Hospital. Specifically, you can boost your metabolism by increasing your muscle mass and lowering your body fat.
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CNN
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What makes soda so addictive?
“Caffeine is one of the most widely consumed psychostimulants in the world … and it does have an addictive property,” said Dr. Marilyn Cornelis, an assistant professor of preventative medicine at Northwestern University. “[With soda], we’re getting the sugar high combined with caffeine, and that is quite a good feeling that might cause you to consume more the next day or another time.” When consumed regularly, people often start to rely on caffeine to increase attentiveness, alertness and energy, according to Msora-Kasago. “They may feel dependent upon it and even experience signs of withdrawal, such as headaches and poor concentration, when they do not have it,” she said.
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U.S. News & World Report
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15 Healthy Fall Salad Ingredients
Fall is apple-picking season, and it’s also a great time to incorporate the fruit into a salad, says Patricia P. Araujo, a clinical dietitian with Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Center in Chicago. Apple slices can complement a salad that’s built on a bed of spinach with gouda, walnuts, cranberries and brie cheese, for example. The crispness of an apple provides a pleasant texture to a fall salad, without adding many calories. One medium-size apple has about 95 calories, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Apples also provide vitamin C, some B vitamins, minerals and fiber.
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Associated Press
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Is the stethoscope dying? High-tech rivals pose a threat
With medical advances and competing devices over the past few decades, “the old stethoscope is kind of falling on hard times in terms of rigorous training,” said Dr. James Thomas, a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. “Some recent studies have shown that graduates in internal medicine and emergency medicine may miss as many of half of murmurs using a stethoscope.” Northwestern is involved in testing new technology created by Eko, a Berkeley, California-based maker of smart stethoscopes. To improve detection of heart murmurs, Eko is developing artificial intelligence algorithms for its devices, using recordings of thousands of heartbeats.
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American Health Association
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5 Scary Health Facts to Spook You This Halloween
But once the creepy decorations are put away, some frightening health facts can haunt us year-round – and should prompt us to take action. “There’s been a lot of thought about how you motivate people to change,” said Mercedes Carnethon, a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “Sometimes scare tactics do work, like the anti-tobacco ads that showed the person smoking through a hole in her neck.”
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Newsweek
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Possible Celiac Disease Nanotechnology Treatment Breakthrough Revealed
The technology is owned by COUR Pharmaceutical Development Company, which was co-founded by one of the scientists who developed the treatment, Dr. Stephen Miller of Northwestern University. At the conclusion of the trial, Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda bought the license for the technology’s use in treating celiac disease, in a deal worth up to $420 million. COUR retains rights to the tech for use in the possible treatment of other diseases. “This is the first demonstration the technology works in patients,” said Miller in a Tuesday press release.
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CNN
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New study links e-liquids to lung inflammation
“This is a nice start to hopefully more longitudinal studies with more participants, if able in the future,” said Dr. Maria Rahmandar, pediatrician and medical director of the Substance Use & Prevention Program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, who was not involved in the new study. “Really all we currently know is that the FDA calls propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin safe for ingestion or putting on skin. These have not been deemed safe to inhale,” Rahmandar said.
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The New York Times
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The Silent Heart Attack You Didn’t Know You Had
“A silent heart attack is not always so silent, but its symptoms — mild chest discomfort, heartburn, nausea, shortness of breath — happen to lots of people and are typically attributed to other causes and not brought to medical attention,” Dr. Robert O. Bonow, a cardiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told me. Women, whose symptoms are often vague, are especially unlikely to realize they are having a heart attack.
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U.S. News & World Report
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AHA News: Deadly Heart Problem Might Not Be So Deadly
Higher estimates of HCM-related sudden death stem largely from specialized centers caring for and studying the sickest people, and thus might suggest patients are at considerably higher risk than in reality, said Dr. Robert Bonow, professor of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and a past president of the AHA. At the same time, uncertainty about HCM’s true incidence makes even the new study’s risk calculations imprecise.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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A Northwestern researcher aims to fight the opioid crisis with an implantable device
A Northwestern University researcher known for developing wearable technology got a $10 million federal grant to create a potentially lifesaving implantable device for opioid addicts. John Rogers, one of the world’s top researchers in materials science and a professor at Northwestern, secured the money from the National Institutes of Health to develop the implant, according to a release from the university.
