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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Reuters
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Melanoma survivors’ friends can help spot new moles
Melanoma survivors may want to enlist partners to help search their bodies for suspicious looking moles, according to new research. The researchers previously found that skin cancer survivors and their partners could be trained to spot potentially cancerous moles by doing skin exams. The new report shows that during the two years, those same people had increasing confidence in their skills, with no increase in embarrassment or discomfort. “There was concern that they might be embarrassed by examining areas of the body that aren’t normally seen close up,” said lead author Dr. June Robinson, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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TODAY
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Stable marriage improves odds you’ll survive after stroke
The new study “is really eye-opening in terms of the impact of having a stable marriage,” said Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran, a professor of neurology and director of stroke research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. It suggests “that the presence of a loved one in your life during those post stroke years provides support and motivation.”
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ABC News
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Study Offers Clues To Risk Of Zika Birth Defects In The U.S.
Other researchers cautioned about reaching any conclusions based on these studies. “We still really don’t know for sure,” says William Muller, a professor of pathology at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, who wrote an editorial accompanying the CDC study in JAMA. Limitations in both the JAMA and NEJM reports mean they could over- or underestimate the risk, he says.
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NPR
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Study Offers Clues To Risk Of Zika Birth Defects In The U.S.
these studies. “We still really don’t know for sure,” says William Muller, a professor of pathology at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, who wrote an editorial accompanying the CDC study in JAMA. Limitations in both the JAMA and NEJM reports mean they could over- or underestimate the risk, he says.
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HealthDay
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A Little Training Helps Couples Ease Into Skin Cancer Checks
Embarrassment was especially an issue for women, said the team led by Dr. June Robinson, a professor of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “These aren’t parts of the body that most females like to have examined by their male partner, but at some point, they realized they’re just looking at the moles, not the cellulite,” Robinson said in a university news release.
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Chicago Tribune
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You’re Not Just ‘Growing Old’ If This Happens To You
All can be addressed, doctors say. Perhaps most important is ensuring that older adults remain physically active and don’t become sedentary. “If someone comes into my office walking at a snail’s pace and tells me ‘I’m old; I’m just slowing down,’ I’m like no, that isn’t right,” said Dr. Lee Ann Lindquist, a professor of geriatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “You need to start moving around more, get physical therapy or occupational therapy and push yourself to do just a little bit more every day.”
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The New York Times
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Abortion Is Found to Have Little Effect on Women’s Mental Health
“What I think is incredibly interesting is how everyone kind of evens out together at six months to a year,” said Katie Watson, a bioethicist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study. “What this study tells us about is resilience and people making the best of their circumstances and moving on,” she said. “What’s sort of a revelation is the ordinariness of it.”
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Huffington Post
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Petroleum Jelly Might Be The Answer To A $3.8 Billion Health Problem
Now, new research suggests that a solution under $10 might be able to help prevent the condition from developing in the first place. The fix? Moisturizing newborns with petroleum jelly until they are six months old. “We could really save a lot of newborns ― and save families ― a lot of suffering,” researcher Dr. Steve Xu, a resident physician in the department of dermatology at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, told The Huffington Post.
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Freakonomics
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Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations
How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on “dream patients” who aren’t representative of a larger population. On the other hand, sometimes the only thing worse than being excluded from a drug trial is being included. WOODRUFF: Diethylstilbestrol, or DES, was manufactured in the early part of 1900s. That’s Teresa Woodruff, who’s been telling us the thalidomide story. WOODRUFF: I am the Watkins professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University. Woodruff also founded, and directs, the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern. And she’s an advocate for something called oncofertility.
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U.S. News & World Report
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What Is Scleroderma?
“It’s actually probably many similar but different diseases that cause scleroderma,” says Dr. John Varga, director of the Northwestern Scleroderma Program at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who points to advances in precision medicine as promising for the disease’s treatment. “That’s going to lead to much safer treatments and much better outcomes.”
