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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BBC
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Christina Applegate Says She Was Wrongly Diagnosed with MS
About 15 to 20 percent of patients diagnosed with MS do not actually have the disease, research suggests, according to Elena Grebenciucova, a neuroimmunology physician at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.
Dr Grebenciucova said the illness is typically diagnosed by finding a number of lesions – or white matter spots – with an MRI of the brain or spinal cord.
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TODAY
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A Viral Video Claims Blowing Bubbles on the Toilet Can Help You Poop. A GI Doc Reveals If It’s True
Constipation, whether chronic or temporary, is a digestive condition that makes it difficult to have a bowel movement.
It can manifest in so many ways because constipation is specific to each individual, explains Dr. Olufemi Kassim, gastroenterologist and clinical assistant professor at Northwestern Medicine.
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WGN
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Dr. Sterling Elliott: How to Properly Deal with Prescription Drug Side Effects
Dr. Sterling Elliott, clinical pharmacist at Northwestern Medicine and assistant professor of orthopedics at Feinberg School of Medicine, joins Lisa Dent to answer your questions including cheaper alternatives to certain prescription drugs, dealing with drug side effects, and more!
Later he addresses Eagles’ quarterback Jalen Hurts’ blood clot issues.
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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.”
