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.

While pacemakers work well, the leads carry a risk of becoming dislodged or causing infection, said John Rogers, a professor at Northwestern University, in Chicago, who led the development of the “dissolving” pacemaker. The thin, flexible device has no wires or battery, and its materials biodegrade over the course of a few weeks.

Similarly, as the Covid-19 pandemic fades, “some existing trends will remain,” said Jacqueline Gollan, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. For example, the recent expansion and use of online shopping, telehealth services, hybrid work models and technology that allows virtual gatherings will endure, Gollan said.

“It’s crazy how pervasive and how common this myth is,” Eve Feinberg, an OB-GYN and former president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, told me. Feinberg noted that the infertility myth is particularly hard to debunk because it’s hard to disprove a negative — just because something scary hasn’t yet happened, people reason, doesn’t mean that it won’t.

Neil Stone, MD, a professor of medicine and preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, says the study results aren’t surprising. “Older patients have a higher absolute risk of dying, and withdrawing proven therapy shown to reduce risk of coronary/stroke events in randomized controlled trials would be expected to result in more cardiovascular events,” he says.

“The findings underscore broader societal issues of access to health care for our Black patients,” senior study author Dr. Daniela Ladner said in a Northwestern news release. “We need to support our Black community to find the way to optimal care, including offering transplants at the same rate as all other patients,” added Ladner, a transplant surgeon and professor of surgery at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

The CDC’s numbers are also in line with what doctors report seeing in their own institutions. At his hospital in New Haven, Asnes says, his team has cared for 10 patients with post-vaccination myocarditis under age 21 and about the same number over 21. Stuart Berger, a pediatric cardiologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, says his group has seen six cases of confirmed myocarditis, mostly in boys ages 16 and up.

That’s to be expected, says Jacqueline Gollan, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. During the height of the pandemic, “we viewed social activities as an unsafe experience. It’s hard to let that go.”

Yvonne C. Lee, M.D., from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues randomly assigned 191 RA patients to care coordination with an app to monitor longitudinal electronic patient-reported outcomes or care coordination alone. To assess for flares, a care coordinator contacted participants at six and 18 weeks.

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