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
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#Pride30: Dr. Brian Mustanski Is Bringing LGBTQ Sex Ed to the Masses
In 2008, Brian Mustanski i started IMPACT: The LGBT Health and Development Program, which conducts research that seeks to improve the health of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and increase understanding of the development of sexual orientation and gender identity. The program is part of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University, Mustanksi’s alma mater. Working with the medical students and other graduate students in the labs of Northwestern allows Dr. Mustanski to provide these students the tools they need to treat people of all sexual and gender identities.
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TIME Magazine
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The Hidden Dangers of Makeup and Shampoo
“As a dermatologist, we live and breathe cosmetics and personal care products,” says study author Dr. Steve Xu, a resident physician in the department of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, citing his motivation for the study. “I get asked every day, ‘What is safe to use?’”
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CNN
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More health problems reported from cosmetic products
However, the lead study author, Dr. Steve Xu, believes the number of adverse health events is probably much higher and more data are needed. “These numbers are likely underreported. We need better reporting, from both consumers and clinicians,” Xu said. “Broadly, the hope of our paper was to continue this discussion to modernize and expand the collection of data about personal care products. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it, was our key point.”
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Reuters
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Reports of side effects with cosmetics increasing
“Adverse events to cosmetics matter to patients mostly because nearly everyone uses a cosmetic or personal care product every single day – this includes newborns, infants and pregnant women,” said senior study author Dr. Shuai Xu, a dermatology researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “Unlike drugs and medical devices, cosmetics permeate daily life,” Xu said by email. “We’re exposed to hundreds of chemicals a day from these products.”
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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What Chicago experts think about Senate’s health care bill
“The insurance subsidies are going to be retained for a limited amount of time. The premium assistance will peak in 2021 then goes down through 2026. The basis for premium assistance has changed. Before, it was pegged at the second-lowest silver plan; now it will be pegged at the so-called applicable median cost plan.’ The assumption is that this will translate to less premium assistance. But, as they say, results may vary. The impact will vary state to state. Someone’s going to have analyze the Illinois effect.” – Dr. Joel Shalowitz, professor of preventive medicine, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and health care system expert
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Science Daily
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Battling infectious diseases with 3-D protein structures
An international team of scientists including the Computation Institute has determined the 3-D atomic structures of more than 1,000 proteins that are potential targets for drugs and vaccines to combat some of the world’s most dangerous emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases…”Almost 50 percent of the structures that we have deposited in the Protein Data Bank are proteins that were requested by scientific investigators from around the world,” said Wayne Anderson of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who is director of the project.
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Science Daily
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Sugar-coated nanomaterial excels at promoting bone growth
“Regenerative medicine can improve quality of life by offering less invasive and more successful approaches to promoting bone growth,” said Samuel I. Stupp, who developed the new nanomaterial. “Our method is very flexible and could be adapted for the regeneration of other tissues, including muscle, tendons and cartilage.”…For the interdisciplinary study, Stupp collaborated with Dr. Wellington K. Hsu, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, and Erin L. K. Hsu, research assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, both at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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U.S. News & World Report
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What New Diagnostic Tests Might Be Available for MS Soon?
“Sometimes doctors diagnose MS but it’s really a different disease, and sometimes multiple sclerosis is present and it’s not picked up,” says Dr. Roumen Balabanov, a neurologist at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Conde Nast Traveler
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Why Travel May Be the Secret to a Longer Life
As most of us age, our brains shrink, which leads to a decline in cognition (or thinking skills) the older we get. “Atrophy is thought to contribute in part to the moments of forgetfulness we experience with aging,” says Emily Rogalski, Ph.D., the director of the study. SuperAgers like Scott, however, lose less brain volume—one study found that over the course of 18 months, ‘normal’ agers lost volume in the cortex (the brain area linked to critical thinking) twice as fast as SuperAgers.
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Health
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How to Stop Itching Your Skin If You Have Eczema
“Don’t scratch” is probably one of the best—and worst—pieces of advice an eczema patient can receive. The skin condition, which is caused by an abnormal immune reaction that results in dry, red, cracked patches of skin, is only made worse by itching. Your nails damage the skin barrier, which then ramps up inflammatory molecules that exacerbate the itch, explains Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
