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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ABC News
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Few people medically exempt from getting COVID-19 vaccine: Experts
Dr. Jeff Linder, the chief of general internal medicine and geriatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told ABC News that research so far shows that those who have a severe allergic reaction are likely triggered by polyethylene glycol (PEG), a component in the vaccines.
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HealthDay
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Black, Hispanic Adults Diagnosed With Diabetes at Earlier Age
Michael C. Wang, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues pooled data for two-year cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2011 through 2018) to compare self-reported age at diabetes diagnosis by race/ethnicity among 3,022 U.S. adults.
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The New York Times
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Pioneering Gene Therapy Freed Her of Sickle Cell. Is a Cure at Hand?
In January, his doctor, Alexis Thompson of Northwestern University, told him he no longer had sickle cell disease. It is strange, Mr. Hubbard said, to think he has a future. “I am becoming more serious about life,” he said. “I didn’t think I would have a life.”
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Yahoo! News
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These Two Things Increase Your Risk of an Early Death, Says Study
“If you don’t have diabetes, your sleep disturbances are still associated with an increased risk of dying, but it’s higher for those with diabetes,” corresponding study author Kristen Knutson, associate professor of neurology and preventive medicine at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, explained in a press release.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern Study Says Unionizing Doesn’t Help With Burnout
The study, however, suggest that, while helpful in some ways, resident unionization is not a cure-all, according to senior study author Dr. Karl Bilimoria, the John Benjamin Murphy Professor of Surgery and director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Yahoo! News
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People With Delta Usually Feel This First
Does the Delta variant have different symptoms than the COVID from before? No with one caveat. “It’s the same old symptoms,” Dr. Robert Murphy, a professor of infectious disease at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the executive director for The Institute for Global Health, said to WGN.
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Chicago Tribune
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Reports of abnormal periods after COVID-19 vaccinations prompt NIH to award funding to study potential link
The lack of information available about the potential period changes prior to when vaccinations began to be administered to the general public contributed to a fear that “didn’t need to be there,” said Nicole Woitowich, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who added that it also led to a “gap of mistrust.”
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National Public Radio
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Crowded U.S. Jails Drove Millions Of COVID-19 Cases, A New Study Says
Such a substantial drop in the incarceration level could have been achieved by instituting alternatives to jail for nonviolent offenses, according to the researchers — Dr. Eric Reinhart of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Daniel Chen of the Toulouse School of Economics and the World Bank.
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Yahoo! News
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How to think about your immunity if you’re one of the nearly 39 million Americans who’ve had COVID-19
“For people who had mild or asymptomatic infections, their antibody response to vaccination is essentially the same as it is for people who have not been previously exposed,” Thomas McDade, the study’s lead author, said in a press release.
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U.S. News & World Report
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More Companies Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Employees, but Is It Enough to Make a Difference?
“Relying on individual institutions like we have relied on individual institutions, businesses and states to enforce a mask mandate, which we know is safe and effective and probably less intrusive than a vaccine, hasn’t worked,” says Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
