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.

  • U.S. News & World Report

    Is It a Cold, the Flu or COVID-19?

    It’s also especially important to get a flu shot this year, according to Dr. Sadiya Khan, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “By getting a flu vaccine, you not only protect yourself, you boost your own immune system and protect others from the flu as well as a more severe illness if you were to contract both influenza and COVID-19,” Khan said in a university news release

  • Yahoo! News

    COVID-19 cases in kids are at their highest since pandemic began, report says

    Bessey Geevarghese, a pediatric infectious disease physician for Lurie Children’s at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, tells Yahoo Life that the numbers are reflective of what’s happening in communities as a whole. “Levels are much higher [in children] since overall cases are going up,” she says. “Children are most likely to get COVID-19 from household contacts.”

  • WTTW News

    Stressed Out? How to Cope With Election Anxiety and Uncertainty

    Many people are experiencing fear and trepidation around the 2020 election. That state of heightened stress and anxiety has a name that was coined after the 2016 election. Clinicians call it election stress disorder. “Of course, that’s not a clinical diagnosis, but really a term that’s being used just to capture what we’re seeing right now,” said Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

  • Fox 32

    Shorter days mean more grappling with Seasonal Affective Disorder

    [VIDEO] Dr. Dan Doebler, a licensed clinical professional counselor, talks about ways to fight against Seasonal Affective Disorder this winter.

  • Fox 32

    How COVID-19 can impact the heart

    [VIDEO] Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Medicine, talks about the varying impacts of COVID-19 on patients’ hearts.

  • The Wall Street Journal

    Doctors Begin to Crack Covid’s Mysterious Long-Term Effects

    She enrolled in a research study at the Neuro Covid-19 Clinic at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, one of several clinics across the country aiming to find solutions for patients. Some symptoms could be collateral damage from the body’s immune response during the acute infection, researchers said. Some patients might harbor an undetectable reservoir of infectious virus or have bits of noninfectious virus in some cells that trigger an immune response, they said.

  • ABC News

    Contemplating death in a year when it feels closer

    Even physicians are dealing with anxiety, some for the first time, says Joan Anzia, psychiatrist and professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She often counsels those in the health care field and says this sense of mortality is even hitting them. “It’s been decades since physicians have had to endanger their own lives and put their own life at risk just by going to work,” she tells me when I call her.

  • MSN

    There’s Now a Birth-Control Gel, but Is It the Right Choice For You? Ob-Gyns Break It Down

    Susan Mitchell, MD, a board-certified ob-gyn at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, explained that the rate of effectiveness is a direct result of the way Phexxi works. “It doesn’t necessarily kill the sperm,” Dr. Mitchell told POPSUGAR. “It just decreases their motility, so it’s harder for them to reach and fertilize an egg.”

  • The Washington Post

    Poor and minority children with food allergies are overlooked and in danger

    Black children are 7 percent more likely to have food allergies than White children, according to a 2020 study by Ruchi Gupta, a pediatrician and professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. To be sure, the study shows that Asian children are 24 percent more likely than White children to have food allergies. But Black and Hispanic children are disproportionately more likely to live in poor communities, to have asthma and to suffer from systemic racism in the delivery of medical care.

  • CBS News

    U.S. surpasses 9 million coronavirus cases

    Video from inside the intensive care unit at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital shows front line workers battling coronavirus in plastic body armor. Illinois on Friday recorded its highest number of hospitalizations since early June, with 6,943. Hospitalizations in the state are up at least 85% in the last month.