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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TIME
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Are You Experiencing COVID-19 “Caution Fatigue”? Here’s What It Is, and How to Fight It
Jacqueline Gollan, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has coined a name for this phenomenon based on her 15 years of research into depression, anxiety and decision-making: “caution fatigue.” Gollan likens social-distancing motivation to a battery.
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The New York Times
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‘A Terrible Price to Pay:’ The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America
Dr. Clyde W. Yancy, chief of cardiology in the department of medicine at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, has studied racial health inequities for most of his career. As a black man and a native of the Baton Rouge area who grew up during segregation, he also understands them on a personal level. “These disparities are real, they are deep and they are exacting a terrible price,” says Dr. Yancy, who wrote an article pulling together research about the connection between black Americans and Covid-19, published online in The Journal of the American Medical Association on April 15.
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USA Today
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Spike in U.S. deaths and cases flagged as pneumonia suggests even greater COVID-19 impact
“There is a new mental calculation: Is this test administered at the hospital worth the potential risk of being exposed to COVID-19?” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Our ER, as well as many others, are seeing far fewer patients because people are scared to come in.”
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HealthDay
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In Rare Cases, COVID-19 May Be Causing Severe Heart Condition in Kids
Pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Tina Tan, from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, told CNN that the NHS England alert was information the United States needed to know. “I think it’s really important that an alert like that goes out, not to alarm anybody but to have people be aware of the fact that this can happen. There have been an increased number of cases like this reported in Italy as well as Spain. Here in the U.S., I think we’re just starting to see it,” Tan said.
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Los Angeles Times
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With laboratories shut, coronavirus forces scientists to ‘stop cold’
Karla Satchell, a microbiologist studying cholera and cancers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said she was particularly concerned for three of the graduate students working in her lab. One of them was set to get his doctorate this summer but can’t complete experiments he needs for his thesis.
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TODAY
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Can coronavirus spread in pools?
“The bigger issue is that you have to change in the shared locker rooms, and people are often touching the mouth, nose and face and then maybe touching the lockers,” Dr. Michael Ison, an infectious disease physician at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, told TODAY. “If you do, wash your hands carefully before and after swimming in the pool.”
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American Heart Association
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Make Mother’s Day last all year with wellness and appreciation
There surely is, experts say, and it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. As May 10 approaches, here are a few things to keep in mind.” My kids are always asking me what they should do for Mother’s Day,” said Dr. Norrina Bai Allen, associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She specializes in cardiovascular epidemiology.
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ABC News
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A 1st: US study finds Gilead drug works against coronavirus
Dr. Babafemi Taiwo, chief of infectious diseases at Northwestern Medicine, which also participated in the study, called the results “really exciting.” “For the first time we have a large, well-conducted trial” showing a treatment helps, he said. “This is not a miracle drug … but it’s definitely better than anything we have.”
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ABC News
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Upward mobility may be good for your wallet, but health problems may follow
Traditionally, researchers studying this phenomenon have looked at data at one point in time, but they have not tracked how health is impacted over a person’s lifetime. A research group led by Gregory Miller, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research, wanted to know what happens to the health of those whose socioeconomic status changes over time, known as “socioeconomic mobility.”
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HealthDay
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AHA News: Traumatic Childhood Increases Lifelong Risk for Heart Disease, Early Death
“Childhood trauma impacts your ability to appropriately handle stress,” said lead investigator Jacob Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “What our analysis shows is that there are also other risk factors we did not account for that put these people at risk for cardiovascular outcomes later in life.” Pierce and his team analyzed data from 3,646 people in a study conducted from 1985 to 2018 in four cities: Birmingham, Alabama; Chicago; Minneapolis; and Oakland, California.
