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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Woman Details Losing Vision in 1 Eye After Taking GLP-1 As Hundreds of Patients Sue Drug Companies
In patients who take GLP-1s, many papers have found an association with a two- to four-fold increase in risk, which still makes the condition very rare, said Dr. Manjot Gill, a retina specialist and professor of ophthalmology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
“The take-home message would be that while there is an increase in relative risk — and this is really an association, we haven’t determined an absolute causation — the absolute risk is still very small,” Gill told NBC News.
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WGN
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Dr. Jeffrey Kopin: Don’t Worry About Safety of mRNA Flu Vaccine
Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about the injury to Caleb Williams, if there is any difference between name-brand medicine or the generic version, the types of vaccines that are available right now, why he believes everyone should get a COVID vaccine, and JB Pritzker publicly announcing that he’s been using weight loss drugs.
Dr. Kopin also answers all of your medical questions.
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USA TODAY
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How Are Overdoses and Cardiac Arrest Related?
With a cardiac arrest, the “heart stops and cannot do its vital function to pump blood to the rest of the body,” Dr. Quentin Youmans, a heart failure and heart transplant specialist at Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, told USA TODAY in a statement.
While irregular heart rhythms cause most sudden cardiac arrests, recreational drug use can cause cardiac arrest in otherwise healthy people.
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WGN
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Dr. Sterling Elliott: Properly Weaning Off of Opioids
Dr. Sterling Elliott, clinical pharmacist at Northwestern Medicine and assistant professor of orthopedics at Feinberg School of Medicine, joins Wendy Snyder, filling in for Lisa Dent, to discuss the process of weaning off and eventually quitting opioids, and the relation between GLP-1’s and remedying addiction.
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WGN
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September Is National Suicide Prevention Month
Dr. Santina Wheat, Program Director, McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, joins Wendy Snyder for this week’s health update.
They discuss September being National Suicide Prevention Month and why you should be informing your doctors that you are feeling depressed. Dr. Wheat also talks about alcohol’s impact on cancer deaths and Dr. Wheat answers listener’s questions.
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WGN
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Wendy Snyder on Sunday Morning | September 20
Dr. Santina Wheat, Program Director, McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, joins Wendy Snyder for this week’s health update.
They discuss September being National Suicide Prevention Month and why you should be informing your doctors that you are feeling depressed.
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BBC
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‘Confusion in the Immune System’: How Allergies Can Develop Later in Life
Some people are born with a genetic predisposition to allergy. But “it’s not all genetics,” says Ruchi Gupta, director of the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research at Northwestern University in Illinois. Often, “something is turning it on.”
One such “on switch” is Covid-19, which can leave its stamp on the immune system in the form of new allergies.
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CBS News
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A Woman’s Postpartum Symptoms Wouldn’t Go Away. A Brain Tumor Was to Blame.
Her care team found a tiny benign tumor, known as a prolactinoma, on her pituitary gland. It was producing excess hormones and causing her symptoms.
Operating on such tumors is rare, said Dr. Stephen McGill, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern University who treated Fasone. Instead, it is usually treated with an oral medication that typically results in the tumor “melting away on its own,” McGill said.
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WGN
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Can Drinking Hot Beverages Raise Your Chances of Getting Cancer?
Dr. Santina Wheat, Program Director, McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, joins Lisa Dent to talk about strength and balance as we age.
Plus, how hot beverages affect your esophagus and more!
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WGN
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Dr. Jeffrey Kopin: People Can Start Getting New COVID Vaccine
Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about Prostate Cancer Awareness month, and why you should ignore a new study that shows that drinking hot beverages could increase your cancer risk.
Dr. Kopin gives an update on when to get COVID and flu shots.
