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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US News & World Report
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Your Personality May Safeguard Your Aging Brain
Certain personality traits may make older adults more or less vulnerable to waning memory and thinking skills, a new study suggests. The study, of nearly 2,000 older adults, found that those high on the “conscientious” scale – organized, self-disciplined and productive – were less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment. “Personality traits reflect an individual’s persistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving,” said Tomiko Yoneda, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University in Chicago, who led the study.
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Yahoo! News
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Derms Say A Smelly Belly Button is Usually Not Something You Need to Worry About
A smelly belly button doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem. Just like any other parts of your skin, dead skin cells in and around your belly button slough off and flake off the surface, says Shuai Xu, MD, an assistant professor of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Xu said if there’s no redness, pain or discharge, you really don’t need to worry.
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NBC News
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Comedian Gilbert Gottfried died of rare, often overlooked disease
Gilbert Gottfried, the beloved brash comedian, died Tuesday from type II myotonic dystrophy, a kind of muscular dystrophy. Elizabeth McNally, the director of the Northwestern University Center for Genetic Medicine, said the “slowly progressive” condition is often overlooked and undiagnosed. “People can have symptoms for quite a while before they even notice it,” she said. Symptoms tend to develop more as people age, so some patients may not be diagnosed until their 40s, 50s or 60s, or they may confuse their symptoms with other age-related health problems.
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The Washington Post
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Gestational diabetes during pregnancy is rising. Experts are alarmed.
Growing evidence suggests that there has been a startling, ongoing rise in gestational diabetes in recent years that troubles many experts. “This is striking and alarming,” says Sadiya Khan, associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “Not only did we see an increase, but it happened over a short period of time.”
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern expanding transplants with ‘lungs in a box’
With only about one in five donated lungs actually getting transplanted and the shortage of donor lungs exacerbated by COVID-19 Northwestern Medicine is employing a new device that lets transplant surgeons prepare lungs outside of the body and increase the likelihood they’ll be usable. Dr. Ankit Bharat
, Northwestern Medicine’s chief of thoracic surgery and executive director of the Canning Thoracic Institute said “Because we were the first health system in the U.S. to offer lung transplants for COVID-19 patients, our patient volume continues to increase, and we need every tool to help us get more transplanted.” -
US News & World Report
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Could Viagra, Cialis Raise Men’s Odds for Eye Trouble?
In a new study, taking erectile dysfunction medications regularly translated into a higher risk for three vision-damaging conditions. Dr. Nicholas Volpe, a professor of ophthalmology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, said it’s important to acknowledge that any medication has the potential for side effects. None of these conditions happen only in the presence of these medications, Volpe said. SRD (serious retinal detachment), for example, is often diagnosed in patients who have diabetic retinopathy.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern Looks to CRISPR Tech for HIV Cure
Scientists at Northwestern Medicine said they used a new CRISPR gene-editing approach to identify human genes that were important for HIV infection in the blood, finding 86 genes that may play a role in the way HIV replicates and causes disease, including over 40 that have never been looked at in the context of HIV infection.
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ABC News
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Is a fourth COVID vaccine dose needed right now?
A new Israeli study said a fourth dose of the Pfizer vaccine improves protection against COVID, but wanes quickly. The need for a second booster has been up for debate among scientists, leaving patients confused and their doctors trying to sort it out. According to Dr. Michael Angarone with Northwestern Medicine Infectious Diseases advises his older and high-risk patients to get the extra dose now. For others, he said a wait-and-see approach may work as well, as drug companies are in the process of testing variant-specific vaccines that may be used seasonally, similar to the flu.
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US News & World Report
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AHA News: The Pandemic’s Ripple Effects on Health Have Begun. What Can We Do Now?
Studies are linking the pandemic to higher rates of fatal heart disease and stroke, deaths from addiction-related problems and more. With heart health, part of the problem is that people often avoided or delayed treatment because of COVID-19 fears, said Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, a cardiologist, epidemiologist and chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Reuters
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Gilead’s remdesivir fails to show benefit in European trial; no fetus risk seen with first trimester vaccination
Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago studied 1,149 women who received at least one dose of a vaccine from Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech or Johnson & Johnson between 30 days of contraception and 14 weeks into gestation, which is when the fetus is most vulnerable to developing birth defects due to medications taken by the mother. Women vaccinated shortly before or early in pregnancy were not at a higher risk for having an abnormality in the fetus detected.
