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.

The Northwestern Medicine study, published Friday in a peer-reviewed science journal that focuses on aging, found that more than 20% of the surviving patients who were admitted to the hospital during the first month of the pandemic returned to the hospital within four months. Of those, 12% returned in the first 30 days.[…]“The real burden of COVID-19 isn’t going to end at the doors of hospital when people are discharged,” said Dr. Eric Liotta, a Northwestern Medicine neurocritical care specialist who co-authored the study. “There is a group of people dealing with a very protracted set of symptoms.”

“Kids are going to pick up on that fear, and have some resistance, because they’re sensing you’re worried. I’d be really cognizant of what you’re putting out there,” said Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, a pediatrician and a researcher at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

For now, Dr. Jeffrey Linder, Northwestern Medicine’s chief of general internal medicine and geriatrics, has a generally clear line. He plans on wearing a mask indoors and not wearing a mask outdoors. “Outdoors is easier,” he said. “It has always seemed very low-risk to me and, since more data has come out about the effectiveness of vaccines, even lower risk.”

Now a team of researchers at Northwestern University has developed a suite of wireless devices that can do all that current monitors do — but at much less cost — and all while freeing up the expectant mother. John Rogers is the leader of the research team and a world-renowned bioelectronics pioneer known for developing cutting-edge wireless medical monitors for a variety of uses.

In HSCT for MS, a procedure pioneered in the U.S. by Northwestern University’s Dr. Richard Burt, chief of the division of immunotherapy, the immune system is suppressed with powerful medications before being allowed to reboot, with the hope that it will reset to normal function and stop attacking healthy tissue.

“The placenta is like the black box in an airplane. If something goes wrong with a pregnancy, we usually see changes in the placenta that can help us figure out what happened,” said lead researcher Dr. Jeffery Goldstein. He is an assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago.[…] At the same time, said researcher Dr. Emily Miller, a Northwestern Medicine maternal fetal medicine physician, “We have reached a stage in vaccine distribution where we are seeing vaccine hesitancy, and this hesitancy is pronounced for pregnant people.

For instance, a team of experts at Northwestern Medicine published related findings in March. An analysis of 100 non-hospitalized “long haulers” found that most patients reported more than four neurologic symptoms, with “brain fog” being the most predominant. Nearly half of the group reported depression/anxiety prior to coronavirus diagnosis.

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