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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News Nation
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Peanut allergies may be prevented with new tools
New research out of Northwestern University suggests there may be a way to prevent peanut allergies in children.
Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a professor of pediatrics and medicine at Northwestern University and the senior author of the study, told NewsNation that the study finally cracks the code to make it easier for doctors and parents to stay on track using simple, digital reminders to turn research into real-world results.
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US News & World Report
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Training, Support Empowers Pediatricians In Peanut Allergy Prevention
Pediatricians can better help parents prevent peanut allergies if they are provided support that helps them follow national guidelines, a new study says.
Doctors were more likely to recommend early introduction of peanut-containing foods into the diets of infants if they had educational and clinical support, researchers reported Oct. 6 in the journal Pediatrics.
These docs were three times more likely to follow the guidelines for kids at high risk for peanut allergy and 14 times more likely for low-risk kids, the study found.
“We found that supporting pediatricians with training, electronic health record prompts, and educational materials for parents significantly improved their ability to counsel families on early peanut introduction,” said lead researcher Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a pediatrician and researcher at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
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NBC Chicago
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Your ‘sleep profile’ sheds light on health, lifestyle and cognition, study shows
However, by identifying individual sleep profiles, the findings could help sleep clinicians develop personalized treatment approaches, said Dr. Phyllis Zee, director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Sleep Disorders Center.
“We really need to consider multiple sleep profiles in our research and clinic — the value of a multidimensional approach to data,” Zee, who wasn’t involved with the new research, said in an email.
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Chicago Tribune
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Palos Hospital employs magnetic process to target treatment-resistant depression
Sarah Praski makes no secret that she sometimes struggles with her mental health, and she’s just as open about what helped with her treatment-resistant depression: transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, done at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital in Palos Park.
When Praski’s doctor retired, Dr. Mona Lal became her psychiatrist, seeing her as an inpatient before the TMS treatment. “We were at the point where I was seeing her once a week, and now I see her every four months,” she said. “So that’s the difference of being better.”
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The Washington Post
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Trump slashed funding for universities that helped create these vital drugs
Richard Silverman, a medicinal chemist at Northwestern University, started a NIH-supported line of research to create a treatment for epilepsy in the late 1970s. In 1989, Ryszard Andruszkiewicz, a visiting scholar in his lab, synthesized a molecule that looked promising.
One study found that $13.8 million in NIH funding had supported development of Lyrica. At Northwestern, $790 million in federal funding was frozen in April. “There needs to be more funds put into research,” Silverman said. “Fundamental research can lead to important applications and commercialization.”
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US News & World Report
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Whooping Cough Cases on the Rise: Newborns Most at Risk, Experts Say
When someone has whooping cough, the sound can be unmistakable: A deep, gasping “whoop” as they struggle to catch their breath between fits of coughing.
Now, this once-rare illness, also known as pertussis, is making a comeback across the United States.
Most babies in this age group who contract pertussis are hospitalized, according to a report published Oct. 3 in the journal Pediatrics.“Pertussis symptoms are different in infants,” said lead author Dr. Caitlin Li, an infectious diseases specialist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “The characteristic whooping cough may be absent, but apnea, or breathing interruption, is common.”
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Wall Street Journal
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‘Crunchy Moms’ Have Stayed Away from Tylenol for Years
While some studies have found associations between acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy and risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, a causal link has not been established, as underscored by the Food and Drug Administration.
“The best studies that we have available, and the ones that do control for things that we know do impact neurodiversity, do not show autism having an association with Tylenol and no studies show Tylenol causing autism,” said Dr. Rachel Follmer, an assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Lurie Children’s Hospital whose clinical focus is children with autism and other neurodevelopmental differences.
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Chicago Tribune
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A goal of zero youth suicides is reasonable. Here’s how we get there.
After 35 years as a clinical child and adolescent psychologist and a medical school professor, treating hundreds of children and teens who suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts and meeting with thousands of parents, I had hoped that through research, training and clinical care, I’d eventually be put out of business.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
Written by Mark Reinecke, who is a professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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US News & World Report
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Scientists Grow Egg Cells From Human Skin in New Study
Oregon scientists have taken an early step toward creating lab-grown eggs using human skin cells, but the process faces major challenges before it could ever be used to help people have children.
Columbia University stem cell researcher Dietrich Egli was concerned about the chromosome problems. But reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Eve Feinberg of Northwestern Medicine called the results “an important step and very exciting,” The AP said, though she agreed that fixing the genetic issues will be critical.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern awards biochemist who discovered GLP-1
Svetlana Mojsov has been named the winner of the 2026 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics.
“Dr. Mojsov’s legacy of groundbreaking and transformative work is a testament to her dedication and brilliance,” Dr. Eric G. Neilson, the Lewis Landsberg Dean and vice president for medical affairs at Feinberg, said in the release. “She is an extraordinary scientist whose career in the laboratory has had a profound impact on human heath globally, and we are proud to recognize her with the 2026 Kimberly Prize.”
