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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The New York Times
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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.
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HealthDay
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AHA News: 5 Threats to Heart Health You May Not Be Aware Of
“We know that the particulate matter in air when absorbed in the lungs causes inflammation that’s immediately reflected in the cardiovascular system,” said Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, chair of the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “That has direct toxic effects.” In the short term, vulnerable people are urged to stay indoors or wear masks when the air quality is particularly bad. A recent study in Denmark showed the benefits of exercising outdoors to prevent heart attacks outweighed the risks of air pollution, while a U.S.-based study published in January in the American Heart Association journal Circulation indicated a heart-healthy Mediterranean diet can mitigate some of the damage caused by air pollution.
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Chicago Tribune
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What can appliance-seller Abt teach hospitals about keeping patients happy?
Patients will go out of their way to visit hospitals that treat them well and avoid those that don’t. Karen Stillwell, of Marseilles, said she and her husband had a “nightmare” experience at one Chicago-area hospital after her husband’s heart transplant in 2012. Eventually, they switched hospitals, heading to Northwestern Memorial. Stillwell’s husband has visited Northwestern three times this year. When he had an issue, she said, multiple levels of Northwestern management contacted her to see how they could help.
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NBC News
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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.
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Reuters
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Penalties not lowering hospital-acquired infection rates
The study wasn’t designed to prove whether or how penalties might alter the quality of care. Researchers also lacked data on what specific efforts hospitals made to target certain quality issues, and it’s possible that some hospitals focused improvement programs on things that weren’t directly measured by the HACRP scores, the study authors note. Even so, the results add to growing evidence suggesting that the program designed to prevent infections and other hospital-acquired conditions “is paradoxically penalizing high-performing hospitals and those hospitals taking care of socioeconomically disadvantaged patients,” said Dr. Karl Bilimoria, director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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MSN.com
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Some People Never Wash Their Jeans. Here’s What Dermatologists Say About That.
Wearing dirty jeans more than 10 times before washing sounds pretty gross. However, your chances of developing bacterial infections is pretty low, says Dr. Steve Xu, M.D. and instructor in the department of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “The skin is a pretty good barrier against infections,” he tells Men’s Health. Most healthy guys don’t need to worry if they avoid doing laundry.
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Chicago Tribune
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Commentary: The biggest Women’s World Cup lesson: Teach girls to be competitive
[Written by Mercedes Carnethon, PhD] When a swim coach challenged my 3-year-old daughter to race against her 5-year old brother, she beat him so badly that it seemed the toddler swim equivalent of the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s 13-0 thrashing of Thailand in their opening game of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. My daughter did not worry about embarrassing her brother. She just did her best and won.That is why I cheered alongside millions when the U.S. women’s national soccer team advanced to Sunday’s finals of the 2019 Women’s World Cup after a hard-fought semifinal victory over England. My cheers were not only because the women have the opportunity to bring home their fourth World Cup victory, but also because the lessons in leadership that sports can teach to girls and women were on display to the world.
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CNN
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How California made a ‘dramatic’ impact on kindergartners getting vaccinated
Dr. Matthew Davis and Seema Shah, both affiliated with Northwestern University, co-authored an editorial that published in JAMA alongside the new study on Tuesday.
“Although the study did not measure actual outbreaks of disease, reductions in children’s risk of contracting measles are a promising outcome in California resulting from policy changes,” Davis and Shah wrote in the editorial. -
Yahoo! News
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Varied bedtimes tied to obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure
“The reason increased variability has a detrimental effect on metabolic heath may have to do with our biological clocks,” said Kristen Knutson, a researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago who wasn’t involved in the study. “We have internal 24-hour rhythms of many processes that impact metabolism and for optimal function these rhythms should be synchronized with each other and with the environment,” Knutson said by email. “If we are sleeping at different times and different amounts, our internal clocks may have difficulty staying synchronized, which may impair function.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago sisters honored late father by donating their kidneys to strangers, setting off a chain of 5 lifesaving transplants
She paused, at a loss of words, then said of the Goralskis: “I don’t know. It’s unbelievable. I just — I hope they know how special they are.” There were hugs and thank-you’s, and Bethany and her kidney recipient Melanie Mavec, 37, a Plainfield middle-school teacher, gleefully compared 3-inch scars from their surgeries. One donor teared up during the prepared remarks, but — as a reporter noted with some surprise during the question-and-answer session — only one. “They’re a hardy bunch,” quipped Dr. John Friedewald, medical director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at Northwestern Medicine.
