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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BBC
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‘Confusion in the Immune System’: How Allergies Can Develop Later in Life
Some people are born with a genetic predisposition to allergy. But “it’s not all genetics,” says Ruchi Gupta, director of the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research at Northwestern University in Illinois. Often, “something is turning it on.”
One such “on switch” is Covid-19, which can leave its stamp on the immune system in the form of new allergies.
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CBS News
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A Woman’s Postpartum Symptoms Wouldn’t Go Away. A Brain Tumor Was to Blame.
Her care team found a tiny benign tumor, known as a prolactinoma, on her pituitary gland. It was producing excess hormones and causing her symptoms.
Operating on such tumors is rare, said Dr. Stephen McGill, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern University who treated Fasone. Instead, it is usually treated with an oral medication that typically results in the tumor “melting away on its own,” McGill said.
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WGN
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Can Drinking Hot Beverages Raise Your Chances of Getting Cancer?
Dr. Santina Wheat, Program Director, McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, joins Lisa Dent to talk about strength and balance as we age.
Plus, how hot beverages affect your esophagus and more!
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WGN
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Dr. Jeffrey Kopin: People Can Start Getting New COVID Vaccine
Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about Prostate Cancer Awareness month, and why you should ignore a new study that shows that drinking hot beverages could increase your cancer risk.
Dr. Kopin gives an update on when to get COVID and flu shots.
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WGN
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Catching Pancreatic Cancer Early: A Northwestern Medicine Doctor’s Mission
Data shows that one in 60 people will get pancreatic cancer. Yet regular screenings are not offered to the masses. But for those with a family history and genetic factors, it’s one local doctor’s mission to catch it before the disease turns deadly.
Dr. Rajesh Keswani, a Northwestern Medicine gastroenterologist, says the hope is to find the cancer in its earliest stage for more success stories.
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WGN
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Dr. Santina Wheat Answers Vaccination Questions
Dr. Santina Wheat, Program Director, McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, joins Wendy Snyder for this week’s health update.
They give vaccination updates and answer listener questions.
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NBC News
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Why Are Americans So Tired? CDC Report Highlights Who’s Feeling It Most
The CDC survey didn’t look at underlying causes of frequent fatigue, and it doesn’t indicate whether it’s worse than in previous years. But Dr. Alana A. Lewis, a cardiologist at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, said the findings were “not unexpected.”
“Just living in this country, we all, at some point, feel fatigue,” Lewis said.
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The New York Times
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Glass Thinner Than a Human Hair: How the New iPhone Bends but Doesn’t Break
Apple on Wednesday unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone with a 7.6-inch glass screen that is capable of bending countless times without breaking.
“The thickness of a material determines its stiffness toward bending,” said John A. Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. “If you make something very thin, it becomes easier to bend.”
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NBC News
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Too Much Light During Nighttime Sleep May Damage the Heart
The researchers compared people who were exposed to almost no nighttime light during sleep to people who were exposed to at least 3 lux — lux is a measurement of illumination — which would still be a very dim room, said Kristen Knutson, an associate professor of sleep medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who has no connection to the study.
Your closed eyes, however, would be able to detect the light, she said.
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WGN
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Understanding and Helping Those Battling Postpartum Psychosis
Dr. Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Psychologist at Northwestern Medicine joins Lisa Dent to talk about the differences between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis in the wake of the Lindsay Clancy trial as well as Corie Walsh’s alleged murder of her two-year-old son, Barrett, in Frankfort, Illinois.
