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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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Vaping fears threaten Illinois’ budding cannabis industry
Dr. Maria Rahmandar, an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, says that might not be enough. “Certainly I am concerned about black-market components, but I am still concerned with the nicotine and even THC that is legal. There are things that have been ‘determined to be safe’ in one area but can’t be proven safe in vaping. We are learning some horrifying results.” Kahn acknowledges, “This is a wake-up call that we, as an industry, need more research.” The cannabis industry sees the alarm over possible health risks of vaping as an opportunity to make the case for federal legalization and regulation of marijuana.
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U.S. News & World Report
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When Time Is a Matter of Life or Death
Should an evaluation lead to tPA being administered on the spot and if the patient has a large vessel occlusion, a blockage in one of the major arteries of the brain, then the patient will bypass the ER and go straight to the interventional lab to have the clot extracted, explains Dr. Harish Shownkeen, medical director of neurointerventional surgery and of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, and co-medical director of the hospital’s mobile stroke unit.
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The Washington Post
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A trailblazing professor turns 100 next month. He’s still doing ‘incredibly complex’ research funded by the NIH.
Jeremiah Stamler’s scientific work is so cutting-edge, it recently earned him roughly half a million dollars in funding from a competitive grant program at the National Institutes of Health. Stamler turns 100 next month. For his birthday, the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is throwing its longtime professor a party it knows he will appreciate: one filled with science. Researchers from across the country will convene to discuss the future of heart health and Stamler’s trailblazing work on the topic.
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The New York Times
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This Treatment Can Cure Cancer. Can It Mend the Heart?
“It’s exciting,” said Dr. Elizabeth McNally, a cardiologist and human geneticist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. But, she cautioned, there are several potential concerns for any therapy that attacks fibroblasts. These are cells that help form all tissues, and they play a large role in wound healing. An ideal treatment shouldn’t eliminate fibrosis everywhere, only scars that hinder normal functioning.
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WTTW
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Northwestern Engineering Team Pioneers New Medical Technologies
What makes this possible is a new generation of flexible electronics pioneered by professor John Rogers who leads the Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics at Northwestern University. Rogers got his start at Bell Laboratories. “We were working on technologies for flexible displays in those days,” he said. “Electronic newspapers, something like that. … That’s kind of how I got my start in flexible electronics. When I moved from Bell we were approached by a group of neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania wanting to know if we could take our flexible display circuits and put them on a brain.”
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WTTW
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Lack of E-Cigarette Regulations Complicates Explanation for Lung Illnesses
“There’s really no standardized consensus on what goes into the product, or how they are being manufactured and regulated,” said Dr. Samuel Kim, associate professor of surgery in thoracic surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “Any manufacturer could put their own substance into these. Nobody really knows exactly what goes into these products and, frankly, the health effects associated with them.” Kim says vaping itself is often misunderstood. It’s a way of inhaling a heated, aerosolized substance generally containing nicotine or THC in vapor form. The cartridges can often be flavored, which has led to skyrocketing rates of use among young people.
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National Public Radio
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How A Prenatal ‘Bootcamp’ For New Dads Helps The Whole Family
With that focus, “Dad’s parenting questions can fall to the wayside,” says Dr. Craig Garfield, a professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. And the lack of attention to a new father’s needs can have ripple effects that impact the whole family — in the short-run and later, Garfield says.
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U.S. News & World Report
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AHA News: Education Seems Tied to Death Risk for Heart Disease Patients
Social determinants of health represent “a phenomenon outside of biology and genetics, outside of traditional risk factors,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, professor and cardiology chief at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “When you deconstruct the social determinants of health, one of the most important variables is education – along with income, housing density, violence and stress,” said Yancy, who was not involved in the study but co-authored a report from the American Heart Association about the influence of social factors on cardiovascular disease. The study demonstrates a need for doctors to “listen more,” Yancy said.
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USA Today
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Atlanta woman has an antidote for burnout – napping for self-care and social justice
Vikas Jain, a sleep medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, said most working adults don’t make time for naps. But he recommends midafternoon naps, especially for people who get less than seven hours of sleep at night. Jain said the naps should be no longer than about 30 minutes. “The communal napping is a newer idea but I like the idea of trying to eliminate the stigma that surrounds sleep,” Jain said. “People don’t want to come forward and let anyone know they are tired … and we are trying to cram so much into our day that we’re not taking care of ourselves.”
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WBEZ
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New Study Sheds Light On How White Parents Can Prevent Racial Bias
A new study from Northwestern University found that the more white parents recognized racial bias in the world, the more likely they were to talk with their children about current racial events.
Morning Shift talks with co-author Sylvia Perry about the study’s potential implications for interventions to address racial bias and discrimination in kids.
GUEST: Sylvia Perry, assistant professor of psychology at Northwestern University
