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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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Chicago’s hospital systems and largest hospitals 2020
Crain’s list of Chicago’s largest hospitals returns with the top five hospitals in the same positions as last year, while the hospital systems list retains its same top three rankings from the prior year.
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U.S. News & World Report
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AHA News: Making Sense of Cholesterol – the Good, the Bad and the Dietary
he answer is yes,” said Dr. Neil Stone, Bonow Professor in Medicine-Cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Studies show healthy people with LDL levels of 100 mg/dL or below tend to have lower rates of heart disease and stroke, supporting a “lower is better” philosophy, according to cholesterol guidelines issued by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association in 2018.
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HealthDay
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Your Sex Affects Your Genes for Body Fat, Cancer, Birth Weight
“These discoveries suggest the importance of considering sex as a biological variable in human genetics and genomics studies,” said project leader Barbara Stranger, an associate professor of pharmacology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. The researchers analyzed 44 types of healthy human tissue from 838 people to find out if there were differences between women and men in the average amount of gene expression.
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NBC Nightly News
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Viola player shares gift of music with Chicago hospital patients
As part of a new study to show how music can heal the brain, Clara Takarabe plays her viola virtually for patients who have suffered brain injury or stroke at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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The Wall Street Journal
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Flu vs. Covid: Ways to Identify Symptoms and Differences
As the virus progresses, it can be easier to tell whether it’s Covid-19 or another illness, says Ben Singer, pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. Among the most telltale indications of Covid-19 are shortness of breath, pneumonia and continued fever. “If people are at home monitoring their symptoms, the thing to look out for is that things are generally getting worse,” Dr. Singer says.
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CNN
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Craving sugar during a pandemic? Here’s how to tame your sweet tooth
High sugar intake is also associated with increased triglyceride levels that often accompany reduced HDL-cholesterol (high-density lipoproteins, better known as the good cholesterol) levels, thereby contributing to metabolic syndrome, also a risk for developing cardiovascular disease, explained Linda Van Horn, chief of the nutrition division at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s department of preventive medicine.
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NBC News
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Covid-19 death rate slows slightly as U.S. nears grim 200,000th fatality milestone
“It may be a statistical blip, it may be because the treatment is getting better, or it may be because the patients have been getting younger,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Most of the dead thus far have been the elderly and the infirm, but hundreds of new cases in recent weeks have been students who contracted the virus after returning to classes on college campuses.
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The Wall Street Journal
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A New Prescription: A Dose of Live Music for Hospital Patients
The Northwestern study was developed by Borna Bonakdarpour, an assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Clara Takarabe, who has been a substitute violist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for more than 20 years. Dr. Bonakdarpour, a classically trained pianist, knew Ms. Takarabe from musical performances and collaborations.
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NPR
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A COVID-19 Vaccine May Be Only 50% Effective. Is That Good Enough?
Michael Ison, an infectious disease physician at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, echoes that sentiment. While it’s true that 50 out of 100 people who get the vaccine could still end up getting infected with the coronavirus, “hopefully, the majority will have milder disease,” Ison says. But he cautions there’s a lot to learn in that regard, given that the studies of COVID-19 vaccine candidates are still very much underway.
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Chicago Tribune
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Silent spreaders and long haulers. Aerosols and protocols. 10 things science has learned about COVID-19 in less than a year.
“The toughest thing about this virus seems to be that there’s quite a prolonged incubation period,” said Dr. Sadiya Sana Khan, an epidemiologist at Northwestern University Medical Center who specializes in cardiac care. “Typically, in influenza, you’ll have symptoms in a day or two. Here, the average end of the median time is five days. That’s a long time to be infected and potentially spreading without even knowing it. And on the longer end, (it can take) 14 days, and some have reported even longer than that.”
