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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NBC News
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Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns when he rolled back Obama regulation
Meanwhile, mental health experts accused Trump of focusing on mental illness to avoid taking politically risky steps like banning high-powered weapons like the ones that were used in the El Paso and Dayton massacres. “These events are tragic, but are not predictable because many people have the propensity to perpetrate mayhem,” said Linda Teplin, a professor of psychiatry at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “They must have the weapons, not only the inclination. We are complicit because we make rifles with high capacity magazines available to all.”
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TIME
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Politicians Keep Blaming Mass Shootings on Mental Health Issues. Doctors Say They’re Wrong
“It’s really just scapegoating people with mental health issues,” says Dr. Seth Trueger, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern University. And while rates of mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and suicidal behavior are on the rise in the U.S., Trueger says other nations have similar problems and experience far fewer mass shootings. “Other countries have the same kind of mental health issues we have, the same kind of violent video games we have, the same religiosity that we have. All that stuff is just a distraction” from the need for better gun control, he says.
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CNN
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Blaming mass shootings on mental illness is ‘inaccurate’ and ‘stigmatizing,’ experts say
Framing mass shootings as a “mental health issue” certainly could lead to policies aimed at improving mental health, but “that won’t prevent the next shooter,” said Lori Ann Post, a professor of emergency medicine and medical social sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who studies violence and policy. It’s estimated that less than 5% of shootings are committed by people with a diagnosable mental illness, Post said.
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WTTW
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Study Finds More Than 1 Million Americans Have a Sesame Allergy
“It is important to advocate for labeling sesame in packaged food,” said lead study author Dr. Ruchi Gupta, an attending physician at Lurie Children’s Hospital who specializes in asthma, food allergies and eczema, in a statement. “Sesame is in a lot of foods as hidden ingredients. It is very hard to avoid.” Unlike milk and peanut allergies, which often develop early in life and are outgrown by adolescence, sesame allergies affect children and adults to a similar degree. Researchers also found 4 in 5 patients with a sesame allergy had at least one other food allergy.
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The New York Times
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Sesame Allergy More Common Than Once Thought, Study Finds
“Sesame allergy is becoming a common allergy in the U.S.,” said Dr. Ruchi S. Gupta, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago and senior author of the study, which was published in the journal JAMA Network Open. “The impact on over a million people in the U.S. is significant.” The study relied on online and phone survey responses from 40,453 adults and 38,408 children. People who have had at least one symptom of sesame allergy made up an estimated 0.23 percent of the population, Dr. Gupta and her colleagues found.
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National Public Radio
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Sesame Allergies Are Likely More Widespread Than Previously Thought
Luckily, a team of researchers led by Dr. Ruchi Gupta, director of the Science and Outcomes of Allergy and Asthma Research Team at Northwestern Medicine Northwestern Medicine and a physician at Lurie Children’s Hospital, already had data on hand — information from a national survey of food allergies they conducted between Oct. 1, 2015, and Sept. 31, 2016. For this study, researchers distributed surveys on food allergy diagnoses and symptoms to nearly 80,000 different people in over 50,000 households. To meet Gottlieb’s request, all they had to do was pull out their sesame data and give it a look.
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The New York Times
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Dangerous Sesame Allergy Affects Many Americans
“Sesame allergy is becoming a common allergy in the U.S.,” said Dr. Ruchi S. Gupta, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago and senior author of the study, which was published in the journal JAMA Network Open. “The impact on over a million people in the U.S. is significant.” The study relied on online and phone survey responses from 40,453 adults and 38,408 children. People who have had at least one symptom of sesame allergy made up an estimated 0.23 percent of the population, Dr. Gupta and her colleagues found.
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Chicago Tribune
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From self-service drink stations to free pajamas, airlines work to make extra-long flights bearable, at least for those in the premium seats
Helping travelers start adjusting to a new time zone in-flight makes sense , sleep experts said. The catch is that passengers aren’t necessarily starting on the same schedule – some might be starting their journey, while others are on a connecting flight mid-trip, said Phyllis Zee, an expert in sleep and circadian rhythm disorders at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “What would be really cool would be to individualize it based on the person’s itinerary,” Zee said. That’s tough on a plane, where it’s hard to escape a seatmate’s overhead light and there’s no such thing as a personal thermostat.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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An eye on shark spines
SCIENTIST USING ARGONNE X-RAY TO SEE INTO SHARK SPINES: What’s Northwestern Medicine scientist Stuart Stock doing with shark spines and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory? He’s looking deep into the strong, flexible and long-lasting vertebrae of sharks to see what it can tell us about our own, more fragile spinal system, according to a Northwestern Now article. Stock, a research professor of cell and developmental biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, says he first became interested in the shark vertebrae three years ago after learning about a colleague’s experiment with the fish.
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The New York Times
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London Lab Advances Use of A.I. in Health Care, but Raises Privacy Concerns
“This perhaps points at the need to look into other data sources that may paint a more complete picture of the patient’s clinical reality,” said Dr. L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, a researcher at Northwestern University who was not involved in the DeepMind paper but is exploring similar technology. Because the system learns from the medical history of mostly male patients admitted to V.A. hospitals, it is also unclear how well the technology would work when used with patients outside that particular population.
