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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WGN
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Dr. Santina Wheat on the Pope, Lung Cancer and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
Dr. Santina Wheat, Program Director, McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, joins Wendy for this week’s health update.
They answer listener questions about lung cancer, pollutants, and discuss pregnancy later in life.
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CBS News Chicago
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Parishioners at Holy Name Cathedral Continue Prayers for Pope Leo After Being Released from Hospital
Dr. Kalvin Lung with Northwestern Medicine shared his thoughts about the pope’s road to recovery so far. “This is the miracle of modern minimally invasive surgery, especially in the chest,” he said.
With the right physical therapy, including breathing exercises, Dr. Lung says Pope Leo could recover faster than expected. “Hopefully it’s just an upward trajectory, and he will be back to his regular paper duties, going back to tennis within, you know, two, three months of going back basically to where he was before surgery”
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The New York Times
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Is Longevity Medicine Going Mainstream?
At Northwestern’s Human Longevity Clinic the clinical practice is informed, in part, by research at the university’s Potocsnak Longevity Institute.
Northwestern’s longevity clinic does not offer whole body M.R.I. screenings, said Dr. Baljash S. Cheema, a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine and the longevity clinic’s medical director, because there is a lack of evidence that its use lengthens life; nor do they offer genome sequencing.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern Medicine Embeds AI Decision Support Inside EHR
Northwestern has embedded artificial intelligence software from OpenEvidence into its Epic-based electronic health record to provide clinicians with medical search and decision support.
“When evaluating new technologies for our clinical teams, our top priority is that they address real clinical needs and it has the ability to be scaled effectively across the health system,” Dr. James Adams, chief medical officer of Northwestern Medicine, said in the release. “By making OpenEvidence available directly in the EHR, we’re giving clinicians a single, trusted source for evidence-based answers at the point of care.”
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ABC 7 Chicago
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Cardinal Cupich Says He Was Shocked by Pope Leo’s Cancer Diagnosis
“Age is the number one risk factor for developing cancer,” said Dr. Mohammed Abazeed, chair and professor of radiation oncology at Northwestern Medicine. “As all of us get older our body has this incredible task it has to take every part of our DNA and replicate it billions of times and when it does that sometimes it makes mistakes.”
Abazeed said environmental factors can also play a role in cancer risk.
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WGN
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Examining Pope Leo’s Lung Cancer Diagnosis
In the wake of Pope Leo XIV’s lung cancer diagnosis, thoracic surgeon with Northwestern Medicine Dr. Andrew Arndt joins the Lisa Dent Show to discuss the severity of the Pope’s type of lung cancer as well as how the disease can form in someone who doesn’t smoke.
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The Washington Post
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Why the Ovary Still Matters Well Beyond Menopause
A study published Wednesday in the journal Aging Cell shows that an ovary continues to play an important role even in its retirement years, with functions that do not diminish and may still affect the rest of the body.
“People talked about the postmenopausal ovary as this defunct organ,” said study co-author Francesca Duncan, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University. “They called it a shriveled husk.”
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CBS News
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Pope Leo’s Lung Cancer Prognosis Could Depend on These Factors, Doctors Say
“It’s very common and also generally a very good prognosis when found early on,” Dr. Kalvin Lung, a thoracic surgeon at the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute, told CBS News 24/7 on Tuesday.
The surgery Leo underwent “is also something we commonly do, and it’s a very successful surgery and people can recover very quickly from it,” Lung said.
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ABC 7 Chicago
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Northwestern Medicine Using AI to Advance Breast Cancer Screenings
Northwestern Medicine is turning to artificial intelligence to elevate screenings by improving accuracy, which could help find cancers that might otherwise go undetected.
Doctor Georgia Spear, the chief of breast imaging at Northwestern Medicine, joined ABC7 to share how they are using AI tools.
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WGN
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Mammograms Can Be Used to Indicate Potential Sign of Heart Disease
Diagnostic radiologist with Northwestern Medicine Dr. Georgia Spear joins Lisa Dent to highlight a new law in Maryland requiring mammography centers to inform patients when their scans show signs of breast arterial calcification, a warning sign for heart disease.
