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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Chicago Tribune
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Vitamin devotees should shift their loyalty to lifestyle changes, experts say
Dr. Jeffrey Linder, chief of internal medicine and geriatrics at Northwestern Medicine, wasn’t surprised by the results, which corroborated and combined years of prior research while putting a spotlight on cardiovascular health. “This new study confirms what we’ve been thinking all along: that there are very few, if any, supplements or vitamins that people should take as long as you’re eating a healthy diet,” Linder said. “Every time scientists have compared taking a supplement of something versus getting it through food, getting it through food wins every time.” Food, Linder said, contains both minerals and vitamins that the body is “built and designed to absorb.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Many Americans Take Antibiotics Without a Prescription
Dr. Ruchi Gupta is a professor of pediatrics and medicine with the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Using antibiotics without a prescription is dangerous for many reasons,” said Gupta, who wasn’t involved with the study. To avoid these dangers, she added, “getting a proper diagnosis and appropriate treatment are essential.” But is antibiotic misuse on the rise? “It’s hard to say, because this is an understudied problem. But what we can say is that it is a problem,” Grigoryan said.
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Chicago Tribune
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Northwestern NICU app gives parents baby’s vital signs, updates to ease their minds
The app — now available to some NICU families at Prentice, but expected to be widely available at a later date — was designed to give parents peace of mind and confidence during the often overwhelming experience of having a newborn in the NICU, said Dr. Craig Garfield, the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital physician and Northwestern professor of pediatrics who developed the app. “These parents … are really thrown into this crazy world,” he said. “Parents are often in such a state of shock and stress that they really can’t hear or take in the information that we’re giving them.”
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WTTW
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Northwestern Develops Tool to Help Scientists Play Nice While Collaborating
And according to a new study, it’s working: About 84% of those surveyed said the tool, which is available at teamscience.net, would have a positive impact on their future research. Bonnie Spring, professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, led the study. “Interdisciplinary team science is now the state of the art across all branches of science and engineering,” Spring said in a statement. “But very few scientists have been trained to work with others outside of their own disciplinary silo.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Some of the deadliest cancers receive the least funding, Northwestern study says
The study was published Thursday in the peer-reviewed Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. “Even though these are some of the most common diseases we treat and some of the most deadly, the amount of money going toward them in the nonprofit setting is extremely small, and I think that can have a negative impact on research and drug development going toward those cancers,” said Dr. Suneel Kamath, the study’s lead author.
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The New York Times
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The Sad Truth About Sleep-Tracking Devices and Apps
That mirrored the conclusions of a recent study from Rush University Medical College and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Researchers there noticed patients complaining about sleep data collected by apps and devices from Nike, Apple, Fitbit and others. In their study, the researchers warned that sleep-tracking tech could provide inaccurate data and worsen insomnia by making people obsessed with achieving perfect slumber, a condition they called orthosomnia. It was one of the latest pieces of research supporting the idea that health apps don’t necessarily make people healthier.
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National Public Radio
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Regulations That Mandate Sepsis Care Appear To Have Worked In New York
That won’t happen overnight. Demetrios Kyriacou, an emergency medicine physician at Northwestern University, wrote a cautionary editorial in JAMA saying that “major public health interventions cannot be based on [Kahn’s] single observational study.” “Because demands on nurses and physicians to provide rapid intensive care to patients in critical settings can affect patient treatment,” he wrote, “any strategy aimed toward reducing sepsis-related morbidity and mortality must be based on convincing evidence before being mandated by governmental regulations.”
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Chicago Tribune
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New study shows reduced working hours for doctor trainees has little effect on patient care
Now a study has answers, finding no difference in hospital deaths, readmissions or costs when comparing results from doctors trained before and after caps limiting duties to 80 hours per week took effect. “Some still long for the old days of 100-hour work weeks, but most of the world has moved on and realized there are better ways to train residents,” said Dr. Karl Bilimoria of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research published Thursday in the journal BMJ. Eliminating extra paperwork and some academic conferences for residents, while adding nurse practitioners to the workforce help make training more efficient, Bilimoria said.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Is a Lectin-Free Diet Healthy for Vegetarians and Vegans?
While Clarkson sings the praises of a lectin-free diet, the regimen is not advisable for vegetarians and vegans, says Elizabeth Spencer, a registered dietitian at Northwestern Medicine Metabolic Health and Surgical Weight Loss Center at Delnor Hospital in Geneva, Illinois. For vegetarians and vegans, a lectin-free diet “would exclude essential food groups that plant-based eaters rely on for their protein, vitamin and mineral needs,” Spencer says. “If one were to follow a lectin-free diet, (one) would need to eliminate legumes, soybeans, wheat, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, eggplant, peppers, some fruits and peanuts.”
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Associated Press
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Shortening Trainee Doctor Hours Hasn’t Harmed Patients
Now a study has answers, finding no difference in hospital deaths, readmissions or costs when comparing results from doctors trained before and after caps limiting duties to 80 hours per week took effect. “Some still long for the old days of 100-hour work weeks, but most of the world has moved on and realized there are better ways to train residents,” said Dr. Karl Bilimoria of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research published Thursday in the journal BMJ.
