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.
-
Chicago Tribune
–
To mask or not to mask? New rules in Illinois and Chicago raise new questions for residents, from doctors to schoolteachers.
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.”
-
TODAY
–
Man undergoes first known successful ‘COVID-to-COVID’ double lung transplant
Since COVID-19 had caused permanent damage to his lungs, Aquino was placed on a lung donor list, according to his physician, Dr. Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgery chief at Northwestern Medicine. A week later, Bharat got the good news that a donor was found.
-
WTTW News
–
Northwestern Team Develops Wireless Monitors for Pregnant Moms
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.
-
Chicago Tribune
–
Cutting-edge multiple sclerosis treatment at Northwestern restores local college student’s vision, balance and energy: ‘I am a new person,’ says 22-year-old Ivy Marcucci
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.
-
HealthDay
–
Debunking Social Media Myth, Study Finds COVID Vaccine Won’t Harm Placenta
“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.
-
Fox News
–
Coronavirus long haulers often face fatigue, neurologic symptoms months later: study
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.
-
USA Today
–
‘Black fungus’ is appearing more frequently among COVID-19 patients in India. What to know about the deadly infection.
“That’s the goal of going on steroids, to turn down the volume on the immune system,” said Dr. Michael Angarone, associate professor of medicine at Northwestern Medicine.
-
The New York Times
–
They’re Not Anti-Vaccine, but These Parents Are Hesitant About the Covid Shot
Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, a pediatrician and a researcher at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, said that she understands parents’ hesitations. “That kind of conversation has been present before we had a feasible vaccine, especially from groups that have been marginalized and experimented on. It’s not a fear that’s far-fetched,” she said.
-
The New York Times
–
New Drugs Could Help Treat Obesity. Could They End the Stigma, Too?
If incretins pass the approval process, they might help convince the most important constituency of all — doctors — that obesity is a chronic disease and that it can be treated, said Dr. Robert F. Kushner, an obesity researcher and clinician at Northwestern University. One reason many doctors don’t help patients with obesity is that they don’t know how, Dr. Kushner said.
-
CNN
–
Covid vaccines do not harm placenta, contrary to social media misinformation, study finds
“We have reached a stage in vaccine distribution where we are seeing vaccine hesitancy, and this hesitancy is pronounced for pregnant people,” said Dr. Emily Miller, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern Medicine, in a statement. In a new study published Tuesday, Miller and her team at Northwestern confirmed that Covid-19 vaccines do not harm the placenta and affect pregnancy adversely as a result.
