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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American Heart Association
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Make Mother’s Day last all year with wellness and appreciation
There surely is, experts say, and it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. As May 10 approaches, here are a few things to keep in mind.” My kids are always asking me what they should do for Mother’s Day,” said Dr. Norrina Bai Allen, associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She specializes in cardiovascular epidemiology.
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ABC News
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A 1st: US study finds Gilead drug works against coronavirus
Dr. Babafemi Taiwo, chief of infectious diseases at Northwestern Medicine, which also participated in the study, called the results “really exciting.” “For the first time we have a large, well-conducted trial” showing a treatment helps, he said. “This is not a miracle drug … but it’s definitely better than anything we have.”
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ABC News
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Upward mobility may be good for your wallet, but health problems may follow
Traditionally, researchers studying this phenomenon have looked at data at one point in time, but they have not tracked how health is impacted over a person’s lifetime. A research group led by Gregory Miller, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research, wanted to know what happens to the health of those whose socioeconomic status changes over time, known as “socioeconomic mobility.”
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HealthDay
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AHA News: Traumatic Childhood Increases Lifelong Risk for Heart Disease, Early Death
“Childhood trauma impacts your ability to appropriately handle stress,” said lead investigator Jacob Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “What our analysis shows is that there are also other risk factors we did not account for that put these people at risk for cardiovascular outcomes later in life.” Pierce and his team analyzed data from 3,646 people in a study conducted from 1985 to 2018 in four cities: Birmingham, Alabama; Chicago; Minneapolis; and Oakland, California.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Establishing a Permanent Path for Delivering Neurological Care Via Telemedicine
Another barrier to care exists for neurology patients with vision, hearing or cognitive issues. These technical challenges aren’t adequately addressed on our current platforms, and we need creative solutions now. Dr. Emily Rogalski in the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine successfully deployed telemedicine to improve language ability in patients with dementia. Many other groups are now employing similar techniques for their elderly neurological patients.
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The New York Times
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Pence to visit Mayo Clinic to learn about testing ‘moonshot’
There is huge variation across the country on how aggressive states have been about testing, said Dr. Joel Shalowitz, an adjunct professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. That’s partly because some states that do a lot of testing, such as New York and New Jersey, are among the hardest hit states, while some states that do less testing also have fewer cases. So a lot of testing is driven by the need to test, or the alleged need, he said.
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Yahoo! News
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A Skin Condition Dubbed “COVID Toes” Could Be a Symptom in Otherwise Healthy Kids
Although there are no conclusive studies connecting this rash to COVID-19, “we are seeing this in unprecedented numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic, so we have to think that there might be a relationship,” Dr. Amy Paller, the chair of the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University School of Medicine, said.
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ABC News
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Coronavirus puts strain on would-be parents looking to start families, especially those undergoing fertility treatments
Dr. Eve C. Feinberg, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University and a member of the ASRM COVID task force, said that in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures involve multiple tests and procedures including blood tests, a surgery to remove eggs and an embryo transfer to place the embryo into the uterus.
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago police issued more dispersal orders on West Side in early days of stay-at-home order than other parts of the city, including the lakefront
Dr. Michael Angarone, an assistant professor of medicine in infectious diseases at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said drug addicts could be in danger of acquiring or spreading COVID-19 not only if they’re purchasing narcotics as part of a large group, but if they use IV-based drugs, they could be at a higher risk for infections, such as HIV, that weaken their immune systems.
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WBEZ
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COVID Toes Skin Disease Gains A Foothold Across The Country
In the Chicago area, teens and young adults are developing red, purple, sore and itchy toes that doctors are informally calling “COVID toes.” Dr. Amy Paller, the chair of dermatology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said that in the past week she’s gotten more than 50 reports of new pediatric cases in the Chicago area. She said she expects many more cases as news of the condition spreads.
