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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Carbs like sweets, fries, white bread remain staples of U.S. diet
Still, some changes for the better found in the study should help move Americans’ health in the right direction, said Linda Van Horn, author of an editorial accompanying the study and chief of nutrition at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Diets that are high in ‘complex’ or naturally occurring dietary carbohydrates are higher dietary quality than ‘refined’ carbohydrates that are processed and depleted of most of the vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber that are inherent in the naturally occurring carbs,” Van Horn said by email.
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The Washington Post
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For some with chronic pain, the problem is not in their backs or knees but their brains
What they discovered has convinced many that the key to chronic pain is found in the organ that receives the signals, and whose makeup is altered slightly every time an electrical impulse arrives on the neuronal highway. “We said, ‘Why don’t we bring in some patients and look inside their brains?’ ” said A. Vania Apkarian, a professor of physiology, anesthesiology and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “And as soon as we did that, we found all kinds of differences between healthy pain patients and chronic pain patients.”
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Chicago Tribune
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A new drug may help kids’ peanut allergies soon, but for now parents afraid of fatal reactions turn to a rare therapy from a few Chicago-area doctors
Palforzia “would open up the opportunity for all allergists to be able to offer some treatment to their patients that has been protocol-driven and gone through (clinical) trials,” said Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who studies food allergies. “It gives them a little more confidence to offer it.” Gupta, who also is a pediatrician at Lurie Children’s Hospital, noted that questions still remain about the drug.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Chicago’s health systems and largest hospitals 2019
Crain’s list of Chicago’s largest hospitals is joined this year by our newest list, Chicago’s hospital systems, and both show an industry that’s consolidating quickly. In 2018, Amita Health, itself the result of the 2015 merger of Adventist Midwest Health and Ascension’s Alexian Brothers Health System, added Presence Health to its fold, and Centegra joined Northwestern Medicine. Advocate Aurora Health also appears on both lists for the first time; its merger closed in April 2018, and this year’s Advocate Aurora hospitals are last year’s Advocate Health Care’s.
That isn’t to say there have been massive shifts in the rankings. On the hospitals list, Northwestern Memorial trades places with the University of Chicago Medical Center, moving up into the No. 1 spot, but that’s the only change for our top five this year. Even with the second-biggest revenue growth on our chart, Rush University Medical Center held steady at No. 3.
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Reuters
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Anemia in early pregnancy linked with risk for neurodevelopmental disorders
While the new study shows an association between anemia early in pregnancy, “an association is not the same as causation,” said Dr. Nevert Badreldin, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “It’s hard to assess, based on this information, whether the anemia is in fact creating the association or whether the higher rates of neurodevelopmental disorders are related to something else the women (with anemia early in pregnancy) have in common.” Women should be reassured that the current guidelines recommend screening for anemia at the first prenatal visit, Badreldin said. “So the great majority of women are getting screened early,” she added.
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U.S. News & World Report
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What Are Low-Carb, High-Fat Diets? Are They Healthy?
There’s no single definition of a low-carb, high-fat eating regimen, says Bethany M. Doerfler, a clinical research dietitian in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. She works in her division’s Digestive Health Center. While there are some well-known eating plans that are low-carb and high-fat – like the keto diet – you need not follow one of those regimens to adhere to this style of eating. You can craft your own low-carb, high-fat eating plan with a registered dietitian. This sort of regimen deviates from the Institute of Medicine’s acceptable macronutrient distribution range, which recommends adults in the U.S. get 45% to 65% of their daily calories from carbs, 20% to 35% from dietary fat and 10% to 35% from protein.
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Chicago Tribune
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Bicyclists should be shamed into wearing helmets.
Just to prove my point, I had younger (and dumber) me call George Chiampas, an emergency medicine physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “We’ll see various things from bicyclists riding at a slow pace that are struck by a vehicle or a car door that opens up and then they flip over the car door, to bicyclists who are riding at a fast speed along Lake Shore Drive and they either get distracted or try to avoid someone else and they get propelled off their bike,” Chiampas said. “It’s everything from mild injuries to intracranial bleeding, neck injuries and severe facial injuries.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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AHA News: Taking Blood Pressure at Home May Better Predict Heart Problem in Black Adults
The study results were limited because participants didn’t use ambulatory monitors, Rader said. But their use soon could be on the rise. In July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it was expanding coverage for the ambulatory devices. Dr. Clyde Yancy, who was not involved in the research, said the study “helps parse out the nuances that matter the most in trying to diagnose high blood pressure. We’re now understanding how very important it is to incorporate the patient as partner. “An accurate home diagnosis gives us the chance to introduce early on lifestyle changes which can be so incredibly important in controlling blood pressure, and when needed, to add medical therapy to mitigate the harm that might be occurring for untreated or undertreated blood pressure,” said Yancy, professor and cardiology chief at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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ABC 7
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Newsviews: health concerns connected to vaping
Meanwhile, President Trump says his administration will propose banning thousands of flavors used in e-cigarettes. Of particular concern are those favored by children. New data shows more than a quarter of high schools students are current e-cigarette users.Talking about all this are Dr. Ravi Kalhan, director of the Asthma and COPD Program at Northwestern University;s Feinberg School of Medicine, Dr. Kiran Joshi, Senior Medical Officer with the Cook County Department of Public Health and Ruby Johnson, the mother of a college student who became sick.
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Forbes
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House Calls Provide Better Care And Save Money. Why Don’t More Use Them?
Rather than ending up in a nursing home, though, Birt lives at home in Wheaton, Ill. with her husband, Maurice. She receives primary medical care there, covered by Medicare, from Dr. Thomas Cornwell and his team at Northwestern HomeCare Physicians. They perform exams, chest x-rays and blood draws — all in the comfort of Birt’s home. “We’re very fortunate,” says her husband. Cornwell is also CEO of the Home Centered Care Institute, dedicated to mentoring and training home-based providers. “When you are in someone’s home, you [as the doctor] are not the center, it is the person. It is on their territory. You have to be comfortable with a change in the dynamic.”
