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 Washington Post
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Atypical forms of dementia are being diagnosed more often in people in their 50s and 60s
One of the patients was a woman who explained that she was having “syntax errors and no articles.” They began collecting other patients with unusual language problems, or aphasia, with no evidence of stroke. Their first six patients were described in a paper published in 1982. That puzzle was the beginning for Mesulam, now at Northwestern University in Chicago and the director of the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease.
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CNN
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If the United States were my patient: Science cannot rescue us from ourselves
In addition to wearing masks, we must restrict our activities and reduce capacity at certain types of businesses. A modeling study, by researchers at Stanford and Northwestern universities, shows that a small minority of places people visit account for a large majority of coronavirus infections in big cities. And it suggests that reducing the maximum occupancy in such places — including restaurants, gyms, cafes, hotels and religious establishments — can slow the spread of illness substantially.
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MSNBC
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ICU doctor: ‘Our numbers have quadrupled’ from October to November
Last week, almost 1,000 people died of COVID-19 in Illinois alone. Dr. Michelle Prickett has been working at an ICU in Chicago and describes the scene from inside the hospital: “The COVID ICU is one of the quietest ICUs because all the doors are closed, there’s no family, there’s no conversations, and the vast majority of patients are ventilated.” She adds that she and her colleagues “know the look in people’s eyes when they can’t breathe. As a pulmonary doctor, it’s a look I’ve seen too many times in my career.”
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Yahoo! News
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Viral photo of iPads used for virtual end-of-life visits prompts latest sobering reality of COVID-19
Dr. Martha Twaddle, medical director for palliative medicine and supportive care at Northwestern Medicine-Lake Forest Hospital, tells Yahoo Life that the pandemic has completely changed the practice of palliative care. “Palliative care focuses on the seriously ill and their families, looking at patients and family as a unit of care,” she says. “Before the pandemic, families were very much an integrated part of the team. On rounds they would be bedside. That doesn’t happen now.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Northwestern-led researchers unveil data dashboard that aims to spot COVID-19 surges faster
“Basically the whole idea for this is like an early warning system. What we would hope to do with this is to … be able to see when things are starting to stoke and an outbreak is occurring,” said Lori Post, co-lead investigator and director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “However, it’s really a difficult time just because all U.S. states are just like out of control right now in America,” said Post, a professor of emergency medicine and medical social sciences.
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Chicago Tribune
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People wary of COVID-19 are avoiding the ER, and that has doctors worried. Here’s how Chicago-area hospitals keep patients safe.
“If there are no beds in the hospital, they (patients) are stuck in the waiting room or the emergency department sometimes for hours,” said Dr. Aaron Quarles, an emergency medicine physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Chicago Tribune
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Should pregnant women get a COVID-19 vaccine? What about women considering pregnancy? Guidance is hard to find because trials exclude pregnancy.
Pregnant women are commonly excluded from research, something that has frustrated Dr. Emily Miller for years. Miller is the assistant professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Northwestern Medicine’s Feinberg School of Medicine, where she has been closely following the lack of data on pregnant women and new vaccines.
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HealthDay
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COVID-19 Can Damage Lungs So Badly That ‘Only Hope’ is Transplant
According to study senior author Dr. Scott Budinger, professor and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Northwestern, lungs attacked by COVID-19 “also showed striking similarities to the lungs of patients with a condition called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.” In that condition, lung tissue gets “thick and stiff, making it difficult for the body to take in oxygen,” Budinger said in the news release.
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The New York Times
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The Long Darkness Before Dawn
“The C.D.C. will have to be rebuilt, and its guidelines and the F.D.A.’s have to be promptly re-evaluated,” said Dr. Robert L. Murphy, director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University’s medical school. “The Biden team will move quickly. It’s not like they don’t know what to do.”
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WBEZ
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Experts Say It’s Too Soon To Predict Illinois’ Post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 Surge
Lori Post is a professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern University who closely surveils COVID-19 data. She is expecting a “God awful” upward spike in cases about a week from now. There’s quite a few risk factors at play as the pandemic is accelerating all across the country.[…]Marc Sala is a pulmonologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Part of his job is managing ventilators for patients with COVID-19.
