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 Huffington Post
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LGBT PTSD, The ADA And Disability Rights — Why It Matters
And a February 2016 study at Northwestern University found it doesn’t ‘Get Better’ for some bullied LGBT youth. “Discrimination, harassment and assault of LGBT youths is still very much a problem for about a third of adolescents,” the press release said. “What’s more, it’s often very severe, ongoing and leads to lasting mental health problems such as major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” “With bullying, I think people often assume ‘that’s just kids teasing kids,’ and that’s not true,” said Brian Mustanski, an associate professor in medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and director of the new Northwestern Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. “If these incidents, which might include physical and sexual assaults, weren’t happening in schools, people would be calling the police. These are criminal offenses.”
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Fox News (National)
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The scientific reason you hate coffee or love it
In 2009, a group of Italian scientists found that slow caffeine metabolizers with moderate to heavy coffee consumption were more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than fast metabolizers. Among fast caffeine metabolizers, the more coffee they drank, the lower their risk of hypertension. But as Marilyn Cornelis, PhD, of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, pointed out to the Times, it’s not all about your CYP1A2 status. There are many genes that are part of the caffeine metabolism process.
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Chicago Tribune
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Your teen’s at Lolla? The overrun ER docs await.
Last year after measuring the influx of intoxicated teens, Lurie warned parents of the dangers of binge drinking and the need for more oversight from event security. “We hear about Lollapalooza concert-goers damaging the grass in Grant Park, but we never hear about the binge drinking among underage drinkers,” Dr. Robert Tanz, a pediatrician at Lurie and pediatrics professor at Northwestern University, said in a statement. “Teenage binge drinking at this festival is definitely a public health issue.”
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The New York Times
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Uncle Sam Wants You — Or at Least Your Genetic and Lifestyle Information
People can sign up through academic medical centers at Columbia University, Northwestern University in Illinois, the University of Arizona and the University of Pittsburgh, each of which is working with local partners. Columbia, for example, is collaborating with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Harlem Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine.
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U.S. New & World Report
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Med Students View Ex-Patients’ E-Records to Track Progress
Many U.S. medical students use electronic health records to track the progress of their former patients and confirm the accuracy of their diagnoses, a new study shows. While the practice raises issues over privacy, checking up on former patients may not be a bad thing overall, the researchers said. The students “are accessing health information for educational purposes — it is important for them to learn medicine by observing the course of illness,” said study co-author Dr. Gregory Brisson, of Northwestern University’s School of Medicine in Chicago.
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HealthDay
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Med Students View Ex-Patients’ E-Records to Track Progress
Many U.S. medical students use electronic health records to track the progress of their former patients and confirm the accuracy of their diagnoses, a new study shows. While the practice raises issues over privacy, checking up on former patients may not be a bad thing overall, the researchers said. The students “are accessing health information for educational purposes — it is important for them to learn medicine by observing the course of illness,” said study co-author Dr. Gregory Brisson, of Northwestern University’s School of Medicine in Chicago.
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Chicago Tribune
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Why your pediatrician might start asking your child about sex
”For providers, this statement is helpful because it calls for backing up what we do with science and giving some uniformity to what we do,” said Rebecca Unger, a pediatrician at Chicago’s Northwestern Children’s Practice and an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “For parents, the message is that we are helping children learn to be advocates for themselves and make healthy and safe decisions.”
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Chicago Tribune
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How to shop for sunscreen
According to a July study in the JAMA Dermatology journal, 40 percent of the best-rated sunscreens on Amazon didn’t meet guidelines of the American Academy of Dermatology. The less-impressive sunscreens didn’t resist water or sweat well, according to doctors at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Chicago Tribune
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Number of advanced prostate cancer cases soars: Northwestern study
“The increase could be because the disease is becoming more aggressive, or it could be because there is less screening being done, but we don’t know why,” said lead researcher Dr. Edward Schaeffer. He is chair of urology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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Fox News
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Metastatic prostate cancer cases rising, study finds
“One hypothesis is the disease has become more aggressive, regardless of the change in screening,” study senior author Dr. Edward Schaeffer, chair of urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Medicine, said in a news release. “The other idea is since screening guidelines have become more lax, when men do get diagnosed, it’s at a more advanced stage of disease.”
