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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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.
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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.
