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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The New York Times
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How Aphasia Steals the Ability to Communicate
Bruce Willis will step away from his acting career due to a recent aphasia diagnosis. Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour, a behavioral neurologist with Northwestern Medicine, said about one million people in the United States currently had aphasia, which disrupts the ability to speak, read and write. They may also have trouble remembering the words for certain objects, said Dr. Bonakdarpour, which leads them to pause for long periods of time, often in the middle of their sentences.
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Fox News
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Permanent daylight saving time may be harmful to our health, experts say
The United States senate recently passed a bill known as the Sunshine Protection Act to may daylight saving time (DST) permanent, but the move may be harmful to our human health. According to Dr. Phyllis Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, “Of the three choices-permanent daylight savings time, permanent standard time or where we are now, which is switching between the two-I think permanent DST is the worst solution.”
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MSN online
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New Study Reveals Prediabetes Rates Have Doubled in American Children
A new study has revealed that rates of prediabetes among children have more than doubled over the past 20 years. Diabetes most commonly affects racial and ethnic minority communities because they are more likely to live in areas where there is a lack of access to healthy food. According to Dr. Kimbra A. Bell, a Northwestern Medicine internal medicine physician, “Our Black and Brown communities are more likely to have an abundance of fast-food restaurants and markets stocked with unhealthy processed foods as opposed to our white counterparts, where there tends to be a greater number of grocery stores and markets with an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables.”
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern double lung transplant clears terminal cancer from patient
Six months after having a double lung transplant to replace his cancerous lungs, Chicagoan Albert Khoury has no signs of cancer left in his body. According to Dr. Young Chae, a medical oncologist with Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern Medicine, six months after the transplant, “We’re thrilled with Albert’s progress. He doesn’t require oxygen and is leading a normal life.”
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CBS News
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Airlines want to drop COVID-19 travel precautions. Is now the right time?
Airlines want to drop the federal mask mandate on flights, arguing that they are no longer necessary because of dropping infection rates. Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said that for most healthy Americans who are vaccinated against COVID-19, eliminating masks on flights is unlikely to pose a serious risk. But the calculation changes if you’re seated near someone infected with disease.
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CBS News
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Double lung transplant saves Chicago man with terminal cancer: “My life went from zero to 100”
A Chicago man underwent a seven-hour surgery to receive new lungs at Northwestern Medicine in September. According to Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine “For patients with stage 4 cancer, lung transplantation is considered a complete ‘no-no,’ but because [the patient’s] cancer was confined only to his chest, we were confident we could clear all the cancer during surgery and save his life.”
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Los Angeles Times
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What you need to know about COVID vaccines for little kids
Moderna says early findings suggest the vaccine may protect against severe illness in kids just as it does in adults. According to Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, a lull in COVID cases could be “the best time to get immunized because then you’ll be protected by the time the next surge starts.” Muller is a researcher for Moderna’s pediatric studies.
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Chicago Tribune
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Northwestern performs rare double lung transplant on patient with terminal lung cancer
Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double lung transplant on a man with terminal lung cancer. His new lungs are now working well, and he seems to be cancer-free. Lung transplants should not replace standard treatments for lung caner, which can include surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiation, said Dr. Ankit Bharat, Northwestern chief of thoracic surgery.
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Fox News
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Heart disease, stroke deaths rose during COVID-19 pandemic: study
In a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, authors from Kaiser Permanente, the Permanente Medical Group, the University of California San Francisco and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said that from 2019 to 2020 the estimated age-adjusted mortality rate increased by 15.9%, largely due to COVID-19 mortality. Rates of stroke and heart disease also increased by 4.3% and 6.4%, respectively.
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Chicago Tribune
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Low-dose COVID shots effective for babies and toddlers, Moderna says
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers – the company announced Wednesday. Vaccinating the littlest “has been somewhat of a moving target over the last couple months,” Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, who is helping study Moderna’s pediatric doses.
