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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U.S. News & World Report
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Hi-Tech Skin Patch Might Someday Track Your Health
A new type of acoustic sensor that resembles a small Band-Aid on the skin can monitor your heartbeat and other health measures, researchers say. The sensor may one day offer a way to painlessly and wirelessly track an individual’s health. The patch, which weighs less than one-hundredth of an ounce, can help doctors monitor heart health, stomach condition, vocal cord activity, lung performance and potentially many other bodily functions, researchers say. “We’ve developed a soft, skin-like device that can listen to internal sounds created by function of internal organs,” explained study co-author John Rogers. He was a professor of materials science and engineering and a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the study and is currently at Northwestern University.
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Becker’s Hospital Review
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Northwestern Medicine boasts nation’s only PhD in healthcare quality and patient safety
The first student has graduated from Northwestern Medicine’s PhD in healthcare quality and patient safety program — the first such program in the nation. The Chicago-based program uses industry “outsiders” like engineers, cognitive psychologists and risk assessment and change management specialists to train clinicians to locate gaps in the system and fix them.
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Chicago Tribune
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We shouldn’t be afraid to use the word ‘vagina’
About half of the time, parents use pet words for the anatomy when they take their children to his office, said Dr. Scott Goldstein, a pediatrician with Northwestern Children’s Practice and instructor at the Feinberg School of Medicine. But Goldstein said he’d prefer that parents use the proper terminology. “It is important to teach children the name of their body parts, so that they are comfortable understanding and communicating about their bodies,” Goldstein said. “Just like it would be odd to teach a child to call their eye a ‘see see’ or their hand a ‘touchy touchy,’ it can be infantilizing and discomforting to encourage them to use euphemisms or unique words to discuss their genitals.”
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Huffington Post
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When ‘Super Agers’ Get Alzheimer’s, They Don’t Exhibit Any Symptoms
“It appears that some elderly individuals are immune to the effects of Alzheimer’s pathology,” said neurologist Changiz Geula, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who presented the findings Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego.
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NPR
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Hey, Baby, Meet Peanuts: How And When To Safely Introduce The Food
Still, under no circumstance should parents feed their babies whole peanuts, which is a clear choking hazard, cautions Dr. Ruchi S. Gupta, a pediatrician and immunologist at Northwestern University, in an ACAAI video aimed at parents. Even peanut butter can be risky at that age, Gupta explains, because it’s thick and sticky.
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Health Day
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Colleges Not Fully Prepared for Students With Food Allergies
Most colleges don’t have comprehensive programs to support students with food allergies, putting them at risk for life-threatening allergic reactions, according to a new study. “Our study found that while many colleges offer support for students with food allergy in the dining hall, the same support doesn’t carry over to organized sports, dormitories or social events” said lead author Dr. Ruchi Gupta, an associate professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University.
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U.S. News & World Report
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When Are Children’s Nightmares Symptoms?
For children troubled by nightmares, comfort from parents is usually all that’s needed to soothe them. “Talk to them, hug them, kiss them – give them a lot of reassurance,” suggests Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a clinical professor emeritus of pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago who has studied sleep issues in children. In addition to nightmares, another common frightful sleep problem some children face is night terrors, which usually begin within a couple hours of a child falling asleep. “It can last five to 15 minutes and the child looks panicky – very frightened,” he notes.
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HealthDay
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High-Dose Statins Boost Survival: Study
In an editorial accompanying the study report, Dr. Robert Bonow and Dr. Clyde Yancy, both from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, wrote that the findings are significant. Study researchers “provide compelling evidence that statins reduce mortality even when measured at only one year of exposure and that the reduction in mortality is greater with high-intensity statin therapy,” Bonow and Yancy wrote. One caveat, however, is that the findings should be interpreted with caution because they run counter to those from randomized clinical trials, the editorial said.
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U.S. News & World Report
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High-Dose Statins Boost Survival: Study
In an editorial accompanying the study report, Dr. Robert Bonow and Dr. Clyde Yancy, both from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, wrote that the findings are significant. Study researchers “provide compelling evidence that statins reduce mortality even when measured at only one year of exposure and that the reduction in mortality is greater with high-intensity statin therapy,” Bonow and Yancy wrote. One caveat, however, is that the findings should be interpreted with caution because they run counter to those from randomized clinical trials, the editorial said.
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TIME Magazine
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You Asked: Why Does My Skin Still Break Out?
A hormonal disorder called polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, may affect up to 15% of women, says Dr. Andrea Dunaif, a professor of endocrinology at Northwestern University. “In PCOS, the ovaries are making an excess of male sex hormones,” Dunaif explains. These excess hormones can stimulate oil production, which leads to breakouts, she says. How can you tell the difference between normal breakouts and something like PCOS? Dunaif says the uptick in male sex hormones associated with PCOS often leads to infrequent menstrual periods, usually eight or fewer periods per year. All-the-time acne—not minor breakouts that happen once or twice a month—is another indicator of PCOS, she says.
