A new institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine will aim to find out why, and whether there’s a way to slow or reverse the aging process and the toll it can take on people’s health. The Potocsnak Longevity Institute, which is launching this month, will focus on research related to aging, and on treating patients suffering from its effects.
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.
I took my family’s sad sleep experience to sleep guru Dr. Marc Weissbluth, professor emeritus of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Over the past two months, I met with him virtually three times.
That means basic cloth masks with gaps around the edges won’t cut it anymore, said Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
After a booster, the protection against an omicron infection still appears about 20% less than protection against the delta variant, said Dr. Egon Ozer of Northwestern University.
Love Black Coffee & Dark Chocolate? It Could Be in Your DNA
“That is interesting because these gene variants are related to faster metabolism of caffeine and are not related to taste,” said study author Marilyn Cornelis, an associate professor of preventive medicine in nutrition at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “These individuals metabolize caffeine faster, so the stimulating effects wear off faster as well. So, they need to drink more.
Stem cells instead of drugs? Northwestern trial testing a way to help strengthen transplant patients’ immune systems
“We’re robbing Peter to pay Paul, if you will, with these medications,” said Dr. Joseph Leventhal, a professor of surgery and director of kidney transplantation at Northwestern Medicine, who leads the clinical study.
And while the number of children going into the intensive care unit at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has not increased, Dr. Larry Kociolek says he expects that to change if infection numbers keep climbing.
Dr. Robert Murphy, the executive director of the Institute for Global Health at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said calculating how many home tests go unreported is complicated.
After more than 200 days in Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Brittani Bury leaves with new heart, lungs, future
Bury’s medical journey started when she was born with five congenital heart defects and two congenital lung defects. Less than a day old, she underwent her first open-heart surgery. According to Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine, Bury’s TAPVR is extremely rare.
Getting COVID Isn’t A Shameful Moral Failure
“Humans are social beings, so there is always that desire” to feel connected to others, said Sheehan Fisher, a psychologist and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. People are craving that connection now more than ever.