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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Huffington Post
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Researchers Would Love To Know Why Some Older People Have Such Excellent Memories
In a study recently presented at the International Conference on Memory in Budapest, researchers examined 62 super agers and found that their brains shrink at a much slower rate than the brains of other people. But if there’s a habit all super agers have in common, researchers haven’t found it yet. “They don’t all have pristine diets or exercise regimens ― some of them drink, and some have been smoking for many years,” Emily Rogalski of Northwestern University told New Scientist. “They don’t all have a high IQ, and they aren’t all doctors and lawyers. Their health history is very variable, but cognitively, they’re doing much better than their peers.”
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Yahoo!
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Autonomous wheelchair could change the lives of motor-impaired users
There are people developing autonomous cars, boats, planes and, heck, even garbage-munching aquatic drones — so why not wheelchairs, too? That’s the mission of Brenna Argall, an assistant professor of Rehabilitation Robotics at Northwestern University. Argall and her team are developing autonomous wheelchairs designed for people with severe disabilities, such as significant motor impairments or the physical inability to operate a traditional control mechanism like a joystick.
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Reuters
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Children’s hospitals lose money on kids with Medicaid
“What parents and families can do is use the Medicaid coverage they have to make the most of primary care their children have access to, as a way to prevent serious illness and injury that would require hospitalization,” said Dr. Matthew M. Davis of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago who coauthored an editorial alongside the new findings. “The priority for an ill or injured child in a parent’s mind is to find the best care they can at that moment,” Davis told Reuters Health by phone. “The last thing parents want to worry about is who is going to pay for that healthcare when they’re very worried about their child.”
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Parents
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How to Conceive When You’ve Been Infertile
Struggling to conceive a second or third time can come as a complete shock. To address secondary infertility, doctors do a slightly different workup than they might have previously. “I like to check on thyroid hormones because we have a higher chance of having thyroid problems, particularly under active thyroid,” says Angela Chaudhari, M.D., a gynecologic surgeon and assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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WTTW- Chicago Tonight
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NFL Players’ Careers Most Impacted by Certain Knee Injuries
Avid sports fan Dr. Wellington K. Hsu, an orthopaedic spine surgeon at Northwestern Medicine, said he’s frequently heard sportscasters make “very bold comments” about injured players’ futures, including “the players are never the same again or their career is done after this injury.”
In 2009, Hsu began researching how spinal injuries affected athletes’ ability to return to play, as well as the players’ subsequent performance and career length. The results of his various studies showed that the players exceeded speculation by sportscasters, he said. -
CBS News
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Lasting childbirth pain could have serious side effects
Women who continue to experience pain from childbirth one month after having a baby may be more likely to develop postpartum depression, a new study suggests…The link between postpartum depression and pain during delivery and after childbirth is an incredibly neglected area of research, said Dr. Katherine Wisner, a perinatal psychiatrist who directs the Asher Center for the Study and Treatment of Depressive Disordersat the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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The New York Times
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Why I Go to Aleppo
Written by Samer Attar, MD, assistant professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Chicago Tribune
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Illinois emergency room visits increased after Obamacare, study says
Hospital emergency department visits increased in Illinois after the Affordable Care Act took effect — the opposite of what many hoped would happen under the landmark health care law, according to a new study. “Emergency departments are already overcrowded, and bringing more patients in will continue to make that worse,” said Dr. Scott Dresden, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and the lead author of the study. Emergency department visits were increasing before the Affordable Care Act took effect, Dresden said, but the jumps revealed by the study go beyond those increases.
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The Washington Post
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Prenatal depression may be the most severe form of maternal depression
Similar to postpartum depression, prenatal depression is accompanied by feelings of worry, sadness and anxiety…“These women are often juggling a multitude of life stressors, such as pregnancy complications, as well as family and financial stress. In many instances, they struggled with depression or anxiety before they became pregnant,” says Sheehan Fisher, a psychiatry professor and a lead researcher in the study.
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CNN
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Your coffee habit may be genetic
People with a newly identified genetic variant in their DNA, called PDSS2, may be inclined to drink fewer cups of coffee than others, according to a small study…A separate study, published in 2014, linked about a half-dozen other genetic variants in human DNA to the volume and frequency of people’s coffee-drinking behavior.
Although different statistical models were used, the previous research tested a few of the same genetic variations included in the new study. However, an association with coffee consumption was not found, said Marilyn Cornelis, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University who led the 2014 study.
