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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HealthDay
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Heart Failure Hospitalizations Spike When Flu Season Peaks
The new study “really does raise our attention yet again that there is an inescapable association between influenza and heart failure,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “That is an awareness that should not be overlooked, because the older population is particularly vulnerable to influenza.” There are a couple of potential ways that flu might increase risk of heart failure, said study co-author Dr. Scott Solomon, a professor with Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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Associated Press
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‘Short sleepers’ get 4 hours a night and feel fine. But is their health at risk?
There are an “amazing amount of gaps” in our knowledge of sleep, said Paula Williams, a clinical health psychologist who studies sleep at the University of Utah. In the meantime, many of us are pushing our luck. Kristen Knutson, a biomedical anthropologist at the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said about 30 percent of adult Americans now qualify as short sleepers, compared with about 20 percent in the 1970s. She thinks longer commuting times are likely a factor as well as extra time spent on computers and smartphones, distractions that didn’t exist 50 years ago.
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Yahoo! News
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Think You Have a Food Allergy? This Study Says There’s a Good Chance You’re Wrong.
We need to start by getting the terminology straight. There are food allergies and food sensitivities, both of which can be referred to as food intolerances. Ruchi Gupta, M.D., lead author of the new research study, says that many people talk about allergies and sensitivities interchangeably, when in fact they represent “very different conditions that often require different strategies for day-to-day management.”
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Valve replacement could replace open-heart surgeries
NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE STUDY SHOWS EFFICACY OF VALVE REPLACEMENT SURGERY: A study co-authored by a Northwestern cardiac surgeon could lead to a dramatic shift in open-heart surgeries for one condition. Patients at low risk for surgical complications benefited from a minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), versus open-heart surgery, according to a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, co-authored by Dr. S. Chris Malaisrie.
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ABC News
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Toddler undergoes open-heart surgery to put a ‘winter coat’ inside her heart
“Typically, if this is left untreated, usually this is fatal. Usually within the first year of life,” pediatric cardiologist Michael Perez said of Eloise’s condition.[…]”Three weeks after she was born, she was going to have this [open-heart] surgery … so that was terrifying,” Eloise’s mother Krista Hoffman said. But the surgery went off without a hitch at Lurie Children’s at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, and her parents couldn’t be more proud of their resilient little daughter, who just happens to have a small piece of Gore-Tex in her heart now.
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NBC News
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Daily aspirin no longer recommended to prevent heart attacks for healthy, older adults
Earlier this year, the AHA published a statistical update showing that nearly half of US adults have some form of cardiovascular disease. The increased risk was mostly attributed to high blood pressure. “We follow a dictum in medicine of ‘do no harm’ and aspirin is not benign,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in Chicago. “Understanding how best to use aspirin, or any other medication, is the kind of refinement that enables our best health.”
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TIME
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Eggs May Be Bad for the Heart, a New Study Says—But There’s More to the Story
Eggs are a staple of American breakfasts, but they’re a highly controversial food. Are they healthy or not? Do they raise cholesterol? Should you eat only the egg whites, or opt for yolks? A new study tries to answer those questions, but it also adds to the long-standing debate around eggs. The research, published in JAMA, says that the dietary cholesterol in eggs is associated with a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease and early death — even though the federal dietary guidelines, and plenty of nutrition experts, consider eggs part of a healthy diet.
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The New York Times
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Are Eggs Good or Bad for You? New Research Rekindles Debate
The new study offers only observational data but doesn’t show that eggs and cholesterol caused heart disease and deaths, said Lee, who wasn’t involved in the research. Senior author Norrina Allen, a preventive medicine specialist, noted that the study lacks information on whether participants ate eggs hard-boiled, poached, fried, or scrambled in butter, which she said could affect health risks. Some people think ‘”I can eat as many eggs as I want’” but the results suggest moderation is a better approach, she said.
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National Public Radio
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Many Guidelines For Heart Care Rely On Weak Evidence
An accompanying editorial in JAMA notes that some recommendations are so obvious that it wouldn’t be ethical to withhold a practice as part of a carefully constructed study. Dr. Robert Bonow at Northwestern University and Dr. Eugene Brunwald at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, note it’s unlikely anyone would ever run a study to see whether it is truly beneficial to take a medical history and perform an exam in a patient with symptoms of heart failure. “Although guidelines are imperfect and a work in progress,” they write, “they remain the cornerstone for informing clinical decisions.”
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HealthDay
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Funding Gap Leaves Women Scientists at a Lifelong Disadvantage: Study
“If women are receiving less grant support from the very beginning of their career, they are less likely to succeed,” said co-corresponding author Teresa Woodruff. She is vice chairwoman for research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. One exception was R01 grants — women received $15,913 more than men. R01 is the NIH’s oldest funding program, aiding projects related to the mission of one or more of its institutes. The researchers also found that gender disparities in funding varied by institution. Women at the Big Ten universities received an average grant amount of $66,365, compared with $148,076 for men.
