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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CNN
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CDC advisers vote to recommend against combo vaccine for young kids, delay vote on newborn hepatitis B shot
Although the forthcoming ACIP vote wouldn’t be a complete overhaul of vaccine policy, waiting to vaccinate could do damage, some experts said.
“This still misses the most highly vulnerable window for protection of infants,” said Dr. Ravi Jhaveri, who heads the division of pediatric infectious disease at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. “The first recommendation is one we have had in place and is the standard of care.”
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The New York Times
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Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4
Mr. Kennedy has questioned the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine and has claimed, incorrectly, that it was not tested properly. In his confirmation hearing in January, he refused to say that the hepatitis B vaccine does not cause autism, a fact widely accepted among scientists.
But Dr. Claudia A. Hawkins, who cares for patients with hepatitis B and hepatitis C at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said hepatitis B vaccines are “very safe, with no reports of any serious side effects in babies, children or adults since their introduction.”
“There is no reason to delay the hepatitis B vaccine,” she said.
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CBS Chicago
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Osher Center at Northwestern Medicine to host fundraiser focused on food as medicine
Osher Center executive director Dr. Melinda Ring said there are many ways that food impacts all of our lives and health. She explained to Suzanne Le Mignot what using food as medicine looks like.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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Gov. JB Pritzker signs executive order to protect COVID-19 vaccine access under RFK Jr.
Dr. Larry Kociolek, professor of pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said the governor’s order will establish a state-endorsed standard of care that will likely make it more favorable for doctors to be able to prescribe the COVID-19 vaccine to more people.
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Fox Chicago
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Chicago researchers highlight racial disparities in heart failure study
A new Northwestern Medicine study shows Black adults face heart failure nearly 14 years earlier than white patients, with researchers pointing to economic and social factors as key drivers of the gap. Xiaoning Huang, PhD, and Lucia Petito, PhD, discussed the results of the study
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US News & World Report
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Kids with High BP May Face Risk of Early Heart Disease Death as Adults
The study is the first to examine the impact of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in childhood on the long-term risk of heart-related death across a diverse group of children.
Systolic blood pressure, the top number in a blood pressure reading, is the force exerted in arteries while the heart is beating. Diastolic pressure is force between beats.
“We were surprised to find that high blood pressure in childhood was linked to serious health conditions many years later,” said lead author Alexa Freedman, PhD, an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. -
Fox News
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Harmless’ virus found lurking in Parkinson’s patients’ brains, new study shows
Northwestern Medicine scientists discovered Human Pegivirus (HPgV) in the brains and spinal fluid of people with Parkinson’s, but not in those without the disease. The results challenge decades of assumptions about the virus.
“HPgV is a common, symptomless infection previously not known to frequently infect the brain,” Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuroinfectious diseases at Northwestern, said in a press release.
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The Washington Post
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5 warning signs of a heart attack, according to cardiologists
Heart attacks occur when blood flow to the heart stops or slows, often because a plaque rupture causes a blood clot that blocks a coronary artery, cardiologists say.
“When someone tells me their chest is aching, that elevates my concern,” said Clyde Yancy, MD chief of cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. -
Chicago Sun Times
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Northwestern Medicine opens outpatient clinic in Bronzeville
Northwestern Medicine opened a new outpatient clinic in the Bronzeville neighborhood Wednesday.
The new clinic, 4822 S. Cottage Grove Ave., offers a range of specialties, including primary care, oncology and infusion services, pediatrics, cardiology, women’s health, dermatology and mental health services.
“Increasing access to world-class health care in Bronzeville will make a generational impact on the health and wellness of this community,” Dr. Kimbra Bell, medical director at the Northwestern Medicine Bronzeville Outpatient Center, said in a statement. -
US News & World Report
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‘Reborn Again’: Blind Bride-To-Be Thriving After Triple-Organ Transplant
Recently engaged to fiancé Christian, the Chicago native’s prospects looked bleak until a team of specialists at Northwestern Memorial Hospital embarked on the risky procedure.
Up until then, triple-organ transplants had only been performed 59 times in the United States, researchers said in background notes.
However, “from the day I met her in clinic, I knew we were going to pull out all the stops to do what we needed to do to get her feeling better,” Dr. Benjamin Bryner, a cardiac surgeon at Northwestern’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute in Chicago, said in a hospital news release.
