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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TODAY
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Coronavirus survivor talks about being first to have double lung transplant
Mayra Ramirez, 28, joins the 3rd hour of TODAY with her surgeon, Dr. Ankit Bharat of Northwestern Medicine, to tell Al Roker about her recovery after becoming the first coronavirus patient to undergo a double lung transplant. “I have the scars to prove that this is real. I never want anyone to undergo what I went through,” said Ramirez.
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The New York Times
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A COVID Patient Goes Home After a Rare Double Lung Transplant
“It’s such a paradigm change,” said Ms. Ramirez’s surgeon, Dr. Ankit Bharat. “Lung transplant has not been considered a treatment option for an infectious disease, so people need to get a little bit more of a comfort level with it.”
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USA Today
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Heart damage found in coronavirus patients months after recovering from COVID-19, study says
“When this came to our attention, we were struck,” said Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief cardiologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and an editor at JAMA Cardiology. The findings would have been virtually impossible to pinpoint without this study, as the majority of patients didn’t exhibit any symptoms and these specific abnormalities detected by the MRI wouldn’t have been seen on an echocardiogram, which is more commonly used in the standard clinical setting.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Double Lung Transplants Save Lives of Sickest COVID Patients
“Mayra and Brian wouldn’t be alive today without the double lung transplants. COVID-19 completely destroyed their lungs and they were critically ill going into the transplant procedure, making it a daunting undertaking,” said Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program.
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The New York Times
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Children May Carry Coronavirus at High Levels, Study Finds
“The school situation is so complicated — there are many nuances beyond just the scientific one,” said Dr. Taylor Heald-Sargent, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, who led the study, published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Chicago Tribune
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Clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine must include more Black, Latino and Indigenous people
Researchers throughout the world are racing to find effective treatments to reduce morbidity and mortality and develop vaccines to limit the spread of COVID-19. It is imperative that clinical investigators prioritize the representation of diverse populations and emphasize enrollment of populations at the highest risk for exposure, incidence and poor outcomes.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Best Hospitals: Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL is ranked No. 10 on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll. It is nationally ranked in 11 adult specialties and rated high performing in 1 adult specialty and 10 procedures and conditions. It is a general medical and surgical facility. It is a teaching hospital. The evaluation of Northwestern Memorial Hospital also includes data from Stone Institute of Psychiatry and Prentice Women’s Hospital.
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NBC News
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These women’s coronavirus symptoms never went away. Their doctors’ willingness to help did.
To combat unconscious biases that can affect treatment, clinicians typically are given protocols to follow — checklists to run through to make sure they don’t miss a diagnosis, said Dr. Melissa Simon, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. When someone goes into the emergency room with chest pains, for example, there is an exhaustive list of laboratory tests that need to be ordered and vital signs that need to be checked to run through possible diagnoses.
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CNN
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COVID-19’s impact on the heart: Two new studies suggest ‘the plot thickening’
Dr. Clyde Yancy of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Dr. Gregg Fonarow of the University of California, Los Angeles, co-authored an editorial that accompanied the two new studies in the journal JAMA Cardiology on Monday.
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The Wall Street Journal
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Suffering From COVID for Months—and Battling Murky Test Results Too
Igor Koralnik, chief of neuro-infectious diseases and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, oversees the Neuro Covid-19 Clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which launched in May. The clinic has had many patients who didn’t test positive for Covid but have lingering neurological symptoms that Dr. Koralnik believes were caused by Covid.
