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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U.S. News & World Report
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Establishing a Permanent Path for Delivering Neurological Care Via Telemedicine
Another barrier to care exists for neurology patients with vision, hearing or cognitive issues. These technical challenges aren’t adequately addressed on our current platforms, and we need creative solutions now. Dr. Emily Rogalski in the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine successfully deployed telemedicine to improve language ability in patients with dementia. Many other groups are now employing similar techniques for their elderly neurological patients.
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The New York Times
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Pence to visit Mayo Clinic to learn about testing ‘moonshot’
There is huge variation across the country on how aggressive states have been about testing, said Dr. Joel Shalowitz, an adjunct professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. That’s partly because some states that do a lot of testing, such as New York and New Jersey, are among the hardest hit states, while some states that do less testing also have fewer cases. So a lot of testing is driven by the need to test, or the alleged need, he said.
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Yahoo! News
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A Skin Condition Dubbed “COVID Toes” Could Be a Symptom in Otherwise Healthy Kids
Although there are no conclusive studies connecting this rash to COVID-19, “we are seeing this in unprecedented numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic, so we have to think that there might be a relationship,” Dr. Amy Paller, the chair of the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University School of Medicine, said.
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ABC News
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Coronavirus puts strain on would-be parents looking to start families, especially those undergoing fertility treatments
Dr. Eve C. Feinberg, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University and a member of the ASRM COVID task force, said that in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures involve multiple tests and procedures including blood tests, a surgery to remove eggs and an embryo transfer to place the embryo into the uterus.
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago police issued more dispersal orders on West Side in early days of stay-at-home order than other parts of the city, including the lakefront
Dr. Michael Angarone, an assistant professor of medicine in infectious diseases at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said drug addicts could be in danger of acquiring or spreading COVID-19 not only if they’re purchasing narcotics as part of a large group, but if they use IV-based drugs, they could be at a higher risk for infections, such as HIV, that weaken their immune systems.
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WBEZ
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COVID Toes Skin Disease Gains A Foothold Across The Country
In the Chicago area, teens and young adults are developing red, purple, sore and itchy toes that doctors are informally calling “COVID toes.” Dr. Amy Paller, the chair of dermatology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said that in the past week she’s gotten more than 50 reports of new pediatric cases in the Chicago area. She said she expects many more cases as news of the condition spreads.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern Memorial testing drug for severe COVID cases
“Very often with new diseases, people try multiple things at once, making it difficult to tell what, if anything, worked,” Dr. Richard Wunderink, Northwestern’s medical intensive care unit director, said in the statement. “Researchers in China gave a similar drug to a small number of people and observed what they thought were good effects. It is important to confirm—or not—these findings before we use this medication routinely. We also need to look to see if there are unexpected side effects of the drug in these patients.”
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Yahoo! News
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The Black community is being disproportionately affected right now — here’s what you can do
Dr. Ben Singer, an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, believes the disparity has had a lot to do with factors such as pre-existing health issues along with limited access to medical services. Black and Hispanic workers are also more likely that their white counterparts to work at jobs that pay per hours, they are also more vulnerable to layoffs.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Up to 50,000 U.S. Kids May Be Hospitalized With COVID-19 by Year’s End
Dr. Marcelo Malakooti, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, said his hospital has had children with COVID-19 infections, but added, “Our numbers are not very high, but it’s really too early to know how coronavirus will affect the pediatric population at large.”
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NPR
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In New York Nursing Homes, Death Comes To Facilities With More People Of Color
“It is not surprising that this is exaggerated,” Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said of NPR’s findings of the racial imbalance in deaths at nursing homes. He wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association about the long history of racial disparities in health care and how it plays out now in this pandemic
