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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Chicago Tribune
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At Least 14 People Died in Cook County this Summer from Heat
Heat deaths are “almost certainly undercounted,” said Abel Kho, an internist and professor of medicine and preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “It has a lot to do with the way we document in our death records, and we’ve known that for a long time, too.”
Health professionals say science needs to draw clearer lines between heat and certain health outcomes, including death, to better prepare public health responses to longer, hotter stretches of summer weather that area residents are going to experience under climate change.
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CBS News Chicago
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Young Couple Shares Journey While Navigating Stage 4 Breast Cancer
A stat she often shares is that only about 13% of breast cancer funding goes directly toward finding a cure for Stage 4 — that’s according to the nonprofit Metavivor. Despite that, Sara’s oncologist at Northwestern Medicine says there is a positive part of the story.
“The exciting part, even for the patients with Stage 4, potentially incurable disease, the progress has been unbelievable,” said Dr. Lisa Flaum.
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CBS News Chicago
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Northwestern Lung Doctor Uses Medical Skills to Rescue Kitten From Inside Wall
A Northwestern Medicine lung doctor brought his work home this week, using his medical skills to help rescue his kitten from inside his home’s walls.
After a long day of treating patients, Dr. Benjamin Seides returned home and their family kitten was nowhere to be found. The doctor drilled a hole and used a borescope to find five-month-old Niko.
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Scientific American
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The Daylight Savings Sleep Hack You’ve Never Heard Of—‘Paleo Lighting’
Researchers Daniela Grimaldi and Phyllis Zee at Northwestern University put healthy young adults to bed for a single night in a room lit to 100 lux—dimmer than a well-lit kitchen, brighter than a night-light—and measured them in the morning.
Their heart rates ran higher through the night. And by breakfast, they were measurably worse at handling sugar, assessed by increasing insulin resistance, than another group that slept in the dark.
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Fox Chicago
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HHS Eases Restrictions on Certain Unapproved Peptides
Peptides are short chains of amino acids in the body that perform essential functions.
Dr. Melinda Ring, director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said the body naturally produces thousands of peptides, regulating “everything from hormone signaling to immune response and tissue repair.”
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NBC Chicago
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NBC 5’s Alicia Roman Shares Message with Viewers After Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Alicia is sharing with our NBC 5 audience that her annual mammogram recently revealed a diagnosis of Stage 0 cancer in multiple areas of one of her breasts.
Dr. Miraj Shah-Khan, a breast surgical oncologist at Northwestern Medicine, recommended Alicia undergo a mastectomy since the cancer was found in multiple areas. Due to her family history of cancer on both sides, Alicia says she made the decision to have both of her breasts removed.
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WGN
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Dr. Jim Adams: Mutated Flu, Hearing Damage, and a New Use for Toad Venom
Dr. Jim Adams, Chief Medical Officer at Northwestern Medicine, joins Lisa Dent to discuss recent health headlines.
He addresses topics including encouraging people to get their flu vaccine soon due to a mutated flu virus going around, how high volumes from earbuds and headphones can damage Gen Z’s hearing, and a nasal spray that makes use of toad venom to help those with depression.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern Medicine Steps Up Its Bid to Become a Transplant Powerhouse
Northwestern Medicine is merging its organ transplant programs and research operations into a single institute in a bid to become a national destination for transplant patients.
Northwestern Medicine President and CEO Dr. Howard Chrisman and Dr. Satish Nadig announced the launch of the institute before some 300 philanthropic donors, hospital leaders, medical staff and transplant patients at Nadig’s annual town hall discussion yesterday.
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People
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Woman Pursues Nursing Dream After Heart and Liver Transplants
Alicia Schweickert’s first year of life was spent in and out of the hospital. Diagnosed with congenital heart disease as a newborn, she underwent an intensive open-heart surgery known as a Fontan procedure when she was a year old.
“Alicia has been fighting for her life since the day she was born,” says Dr. Jonathan Rich, heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine, who treated Schweickert as an adult.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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Newly Launched Northwestern Medicine Transplant Institute Aims to Lead Way for Transplant Innovation
The institute includes a staff of about 300 people, ranging from social workers to nurses to surgeons. Last year, Northwestern Medicine performed 691 transplants, according to a news release.
“When hope is lost in anywhere across the globe, Northwestern comes to mind as a place that could potentially deliver that hope through innovative techniques,” said Dr. Satish Nadig, the institute’s executive director, adding that he wants the institute to become the destination for transplant innovation.
