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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National Public Radio
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Buzz, Buzz: Bitter Tasters Like Coffee Better
How to explain these results? Marylin Cornelis, assistant professor of preventative medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and one of the study authors says people may “learn to associate that bitter taste with the stimulation that coffee can provide.” In other words, they get hooked on the buzz. Although taste does play some role in people’s coffee consumption, Cornelis says people’s ability to break down caffeine and flush it from the body is a better predictor of how much they’ll drink.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Like Coffee? You May Be Genetically Wired That Way
But their study of more than 400,000 people in the United Kingdom found that the more sensitive people are to the bitter taste of caffeine, the more coffee they drink. The sensitivity is caused by a genetic variant. “You’d expect that people who are particularly sensitive to the bitter taste of caffeine would drink less coffee,” said study author Marilyn Cornelis, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. But people with an increased sensitivity to the bitterness of coffee/caffeine have learned to associate “good things with it” — which would be the stimulation provided by caffeine, Cornelis said in a university news release.
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Chicago Tribune
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A different kind of bell ringing — for kids who finish cancer treatment
Northwestern spokesperson Jenny Nowatzke said each of its cancer locations has a special tradition when patients — adults and children — complete treatment. Some locations have bells or gongs; others provide certificates. On a 2016 camping trip, Abrielle complained that her ankle hurt. After trips to the doctor, including for a stubborn fever, the family was told she had cancer. “It was so hard,” her mother, Janel Ramos, said. “We were not expecting that. We thought it was something normal — normal fever.”
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Yahoo News
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L’Oreal’s wearable sensor tracks UV, pollen and pollution
The device, My Skin Track/UV, has been developed in partnership L’Oreal’s skincare brand La Roche-Posay and Professor John Rogers from Northwestern University — the same guy that introduced wearable tattoos back in 2016. Powered by the user’s smartphone using near-field communication, the sensor is activated by the sun and provides instant status updates while storing up to three months of data. Its primary function is UV monitoring, but integration with Apple HealthKit means it also provides insight into humidity, pollen and pollution. And it’s waterproof.
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WTTW
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New Exercise Guidelines: Move More, Sit Less, Start Younger
The advice is the first update since the government’s physical activity guidelines came out a decade ago. Since then, the list of benefits of exercise has grown, and there’s more evidence to back things that were of unknown value before, such as short, high-intense workouts and taking the stairs instead of an elevator.“Doing something is better than doing nothing, and doing more is better than doing something,” said Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, a preventive medicine expert at Northwestern University in Chicago. Only 20 percent of Americans get enough exercise now, and the childhood obesity problem has prompted the push to aim younger to prevent poor health later in life.
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HealthDay
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AHA: Could Your Race Determine Your Wait for a Donor Heart?
“I don’t think we can infer a high degree of bias in the decision (of heart allocation). So much is driven by objective measures,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology and Magerstadt Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “It’s impossible to control for all other variables and have race and ethnicity emerge as the predominant reason for longer wait times. You’re dealing with people at the edge of life with a number of comorbidities and variables that determine their clinical stability or instability,” said Yancy, who was not involved in the study. “We will use those hearts in the very best way we can, for those who are desperately ill and have a chance of surviving.”
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HealthDay
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Heart Failure Patients Shouldn’t Stop Meds Even if Condition Improves: Study
These results show that “we should tread lightly” when patients ask to be taken off their heart medications, said Dr. Jane Wilcox, an assistant professor of cardiology with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. For the patients who relapsed, their heart failure came back “within just eight weeks of withdrawal of medication. Eight weeks. Two months,” Wilcox said. “The question of recovery versus remission has potentially been answered by this pilot study. Currently, in 2018, we have no true signature of recovery,” Wilcox said. “These patients indeed are in cardiac remission.” Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones is chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern. The study helps inform “an incredibly important clinical question that comes up all the time,” he said.
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MSN.com
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Is It Harder to Lose Weight as You Age?
Monitor your caloric intake. You might be able to get away with not counting your calories in your 20s. But as you move into your 30s and 40s, and the number of calories you need drops, it’s a good idea to keep track of your caloric intake, says Audra Wilson, a clinical dietitian with the Northwestern Medicine Metabolic Health and Surgical Weight Loss Center. A typical sedentary 60-year-old woman should consume 1,600 calories daily, while a sedentary man of the same age should have 2,200 calories a day, according to federal government dietary guidelines. Your ideal weight range depends in part on your height. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has an online tool that you can use to calculate your BMI and check whether you’re overweight for your height.
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WTTW
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Infertility Myths and Facts as Michelle Obama Reveals Miscarriage, IVF
So how common is this type of journey into parenthood? We asked <a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=36241"Dr. Christina Boots, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology specializing in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Below, an edited Q&A with Boots. Is infertility more common than we talk about or know about? I think it is. It occurs in about at least 10 percent of the population. And I think most people aren’t talking about when they’re struggling. Whether they’re struggling and it just takes them longer or it happens on their own. Or whether they’re having to seek fertility treatment. There was a recent survey out that showed that 30 percent of the population either knows somebody who went through fertility treatment or went through it themselves. So I think it is happening a lot more often than anybody realizes.
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The Washington Post
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New exercise guidelines: Move more, sit less, start younger
The advice is the first update since the government’s physical activity guidelines came out a decade ago. Since then, the list of benefits of exercise has grown, and there’s more evidence to back things that were of unknown value before, such as short, high-intense workouts and taking the stairs instead of an elevator.“Doing something is better than doing nothing, and doing more is better than doing something,” said Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, a preventive medicine expert at Northwestern University in Chicago. Only 20 percent of Americans get enough exercise now, and the childhood obesity problem has prompted the push to aim younger to prevent poor health later in life.
