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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Chicago Tribune
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How long has your doctor been on duty? Groups protest idea of 28-hour shifts
Dr. Karl Bilimoria put it this way: “If you had your surgery in the morning on a Monday and Monday evening you had a complication that required you going back to the operating room at midnight, would you want the on-call person there or the team that was there and did your first operation in the morning who knew everything that happened and had a relationship with you? “Things get lost when doctors hand things off to each other,” said Bilimoria, director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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CBS News
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Can’t sleep? Camping could be the cure, study suggests
There is evidence, for example, that exposure to morning light is associated with appetite and weight control, said Dr. Phyllis Zee.
She said the new experiments are important because they demonstrate just how powerful exposure to natural light — and darkness — can be.
“Just two days of summer camping reset people’s clocks,” said Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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WebMD
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Time Outdoors May Deliver Better Sleep
Outside, “you are pretty constrained by natural light-dark cycles and the intensity and light spectrum that you see in nature,” says Dr. Phyllis Zee, director for the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University who was not involved with the study. Natural light, particularly morning sunshine, which is enriched with blue light, has a very powerful influence on setting internal clocks
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U.S. News and World Report
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Time Outdoors May Deliver Better Sleep
There is evidence, for example, that exposure to morning light is associated with appetite and weight control, said Dr. Phyllis Zee.
She said the new experiments are important because they demonstrate just how powerful exposure to natural light — and darkness — can be.
“Just two days of summer camping reset people’s clocks,” said Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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HealthDay
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Time Outdoors May Deliver Better Sleep
There is evidence, for example, that exposure to morning light is associated with appetite and weight control, said Dr. Phyllis Zee.
She said the new experiments are important because they demonstrate just how powerful exposure to natural light — and darkness — can be.
“Just two days of summer camping reset people’s clocks,” said Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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NPR
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Not Getting Enough Sleep? Camping In February Might Help
Outside, “you are pretty constrained by natural light-dark cycles and the intensity and light spectrum that you see in nature,” says Dr. Phyllis Zee, director for the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University who was not involved with the study. Natural light, particularly morning sunshine, which is enriched with blue light, has a very powerful influence on setting internal clocks.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Even a Little Exercise Can Help With Arthritis, Study Says
However, this Northwestern University study found that doing even about one-third of that amount is still beneficial. The study involved more than 1,600 adults 49 or older who had arthritic pain or stiffness in their hips, knees or feet.
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The Huffington Post
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This Is What It Actually Means To Get A ‘Good Night’s Sleep’
The new metrics describe good-quality sleep, Sabra Abbott, a neurologist who specializes in circadian rhythm and sleep disorders at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, told HuffPost. But not everyone’s sleep looks the same, she added. “Just because you aren’t able to perfectly meet these four guidelines, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have poor-quality sleep,” Abbott said. The metrics “are useful as an initial target.”
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U.S. News and World Report
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Dive Into Global Health Issues During Med School
Dr. Joel Shalowitz, professor of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, says understanding how another nation’s health system works enriches your outlook on your own country’s health care system by allowing you to compare and contrast the two.
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ABC News
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In Chicago, Witnesses to Violence Turn to First Aid to Save Lives
Dr. Mamta Swaroop, 39, a trauma surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, created the Chicago South Side Trauma First Responders Course and wants to give all trainees basic knowledge of what to do in a situation like the one Jacobs faced so that they don’t have to rely on vaguely remembered movie scenes for medical guidance. Swaroop came up with the idea for the course after having multiple patients bleed out to death before they could be saved at the hospital. She noticed many had wounds in their arms and legs that, if properly bandaged, may have been survivable.
