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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Hundreds of health care workers in Chicago take a silent knee in #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives demonstration: ‘It’s a human rights issue. It’s a health care issue.’
Hundreds of health care workers flooded the plaza outside Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital on Friday morning for a #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives demonstration that covered the sidewalks on both sides of Fairbanks Avenue from Superior Street on the south to Chicago Avenue on the north. “It’s not just about this single, 10-minute gesture,” said Parul Gupta, an obstetrics and gynecology doctor who helped organize the demonstration. “It’s about what we’re going to do next. How we’re going to deal with teaching implicit bias, as we already do with our medical and resident students, but also with the faculty and the private faculty as well. This is not a political issue. It’s a human rights issue. It’s a health care issue.”
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TODAY
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Why coronavirus guidance keeps changing — and what you really need to know
“The virus does not discriminate against who it hits, whether you went to a protest or went to get your hair cut,” said Dr. Michelle Prickett, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “Everyone still has to practice the same hand hygiene, social distancing, masking and ways of retaining the virus to themselves so that we can reopen the country. We all have the same goal.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Her World Was Delivering Babies. Now She’s Helping Save COVID-19 Patients
IN THE BEGINNING OF April, as confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois surpassed 10,000, Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois, asked its nurses for volunteers to care for an influx of patients with the potentially deadly respiratory virus. Ashley Holsman, a labor and delivery nurse at the hospital, immediately raised her hand.
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HealthDay
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AHA News: Life After Lockdown Should Start With This Healthy To-Do List
It’s safe for most people to return to health care facilities, said Mercedes Carnethon, an epidemiologist and vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Health care delivery teams have been thoughtful about setting up their offices in a way to reduce the probability of exposure by wearing protective health equipment such as masks and gloves, reducing the number of patients in the waiting room at any single time and converting those visits that can be done remotely to telehealth. In most cases, the health care provider’s office will welcome questions about safety from patients,” she said.
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Los Angeles Times
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Cause of death: COVID-19, police violence or racism?
“I’ve spent the last several months of my life imploring and exhorting people to protect themselves, to reduce the spread of this virus and save lives,” said Dr. Clyde W. Yancy, a cardiologist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who is African American. But after Floyd’s death under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, he said, “it dawned on me that my greatest risk is not COVID-19. It’s the color of my skin.”
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The New York Times
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Starting to Exercise Again After Lockdown
“We already are seeing new patients” hobbled by overly enthusiastic recent workouts, says Dr. Monica Rho, the chief of musculoskeletal medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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WBEZ
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Could Massive George Floyd Protests Lead To A Resurgence Of COVID-19 Cases In Chicago?
COVID-19 is spread from someone’s mouth or nose through particles in the air. If two people are wearing a mask, the risk of transmission is reduced by over 90%, said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist and cardiologist at Northwestern University School of Medicine. “But not all masks are completely impervious to particles going in and out, and some people might not be wearing their mask correctly at all times, so there’s risk there,” she said.
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HealthDay
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Clotting Tied to COVID-19 May Harm the Placenta
Women who had COVID-19 while pregnant showed evidence of placental injury, suggesting a new complication of the illness, researchers say. The good news from the small study of 16 women is that “most of these babies were delivered full-term after otherwise normal pregnancies,” said study senior author Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein. He’s assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Exclusive: Research Finds Concerning Drop in U.S. Colorectal Cancer Screenings and Surgeries
“Some surgeries can be postponed by a little bit, but this was certainly striking,” said Dr. Al Benson, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. “This will continue to be a challenge, because as the pandemic begins to subside and we begin to schedule more normally, there’s going to be a lot of catch-up. We don’t want people to further postpone screenings, and we certainly don’t want to postpone surgeries.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Fear of COVID-19 leads other patients to decline critical treatment
“The hospital was an ominous, nerve-racking and scary place for patients even before COVID,” said Dr. Lisa VanWagner, a transplant hepatologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. “Now you take a stressful situation like a pandemic and you tell people that they cannot have their normal support system while they’re in the hospital, and that really magnifies those fears.”
