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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Yahoo! News
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Getting COVID Isn’t A Shameful Moral Failure
“Humans are social beings, so there is always that desire” to feel connected to others, said Sheehan Fisher, a psychologist and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. People are craving that connection now more than ever.
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NBC News
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What to do if you’ve just tested positive for Covid
Inform the close contacts you were around not only once you started feeling sick or once you took your test, but also those whom you were with in the days leading up to that point, said Dr. Khalilah Gates, an associate professor of medicine in pulmonary and critical care at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.
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US News & World Report
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Going Viral: Flu Rebounds as Omicron Variant Surges
“We already are seeing significant increases in the amount of influenza occurring across the United States, especially with regards to the eastern part of the U.S. and the central part of the country,” said Dr. Tina Tan, an infectious disease doctor at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
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Yahoo! News
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Should parents worry about a vaccine affecting a child’s fertility? Your COVID-19 questions answered
The answer is no, said Dr. Jennifer Kusma, an instructor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Lurie Children’s Hospital pediatrician. “There’s no scientific reason or concern for either,” she said.
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NBC News
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Pandemic poses short- and long-term risks to babies, especially boys
But studies also suggest that inflammation from a mother’s Covid infection can injure the placenta, said Dr. Jeffery Goldstein, an assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. In a study published last year, Goldstein and his co-authors found that placentas from Covid-infected moms had more abnormal blood vessels than placentas from patients without Covid, making it harder for them to deliver sufficient oxygen to the fetus.
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ABC News – Good Morning America
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Mom reunited with daughters, newborn for Christmas after 100 days hospitalized with COVID-19
“I think using the word ‘miraculous’ is a very appropriate word,” said Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine, who treated Carver. “She’s not going to get her lung function back to where it was before COVID hit her, but she’ll be able to lead a normal life.”
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NBC Nightly News
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U.S. faces record COVID surge as omicron variant spreads
The omicron variant is spreading across the U.S. at an alarming rate and is now being reported in nearly all 50 states. Ahead of the holidays, Americans planning to travel and gather aren’t taking any chances, leading to extra-long testing lines. Hospitals are already stretched thin as they brace for what’s ahead.
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Chicago Tribune
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Young adults in Illinois are many of the patients at Northwestern’s Neuro COVID-19 clinic tracking long-haulers
When Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuro-infectious diseases and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine, started a Neuro COVID-19 clinic to follow long-haul neurological issues in May 2020, he expected to mostly treat elderly people who had been hospitalized or intubated.
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Chicago Tribune
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Amid surge, more people want a COVID-19 treatment called monoclonal antibodies. But it’s not always easy to find in Illinois.
“We, as well as most medical centers in the area have more people who need monoclonal antibodies than we have capacity to deliver,” said Dr. Michael Ison, a professor in the division of infectious disease and organ transplantation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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New Approach to Gay and Bisexual Men With Prostate Cancer
That has led to a different approach by Dr. Channa Amarasekera, director of the Gay & Bisexual Men’s Urology Program at Northwestern Medicine. The program, which began taking patients in August, is the first of its kind in the U.S.
