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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WebMD
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Postpartum Depression Affects Dads, Too
“We often talk about mothers suffering from PPD, so it is more normalized for mothers to bring it up or for loved ones to ask mothers about how they are doing physically and psychologically after the birth,” Craig Garfield, MD, an attending physician and founder/director of Family and Child Health innovations at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, tells WebMD.
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HealthDay
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Coming Soon: An Implanted Pacemaker That Dissolves Away After Use
While pacemakers work well, the leads carry a risk of becoming dislodged or causing infection, said John Rogers, a professor at Northwestern University, in Chicago, who led the development of the “dissolving” pacemaker. The thin, flexible device has no wires or battery, and its materials biodegrade over the course of a few weeks.
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CNN
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Life after the 1918 flu has lessons for our post-pandemic world
Similarly, as the Covid-19 pandemic fades, “some existing trends will remain,” said Jacqueline Gollan, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. For example, the recent expansion and use of online shopping, telehealth services, hybrid work models and technology that allows virtual gatherings will endure, Gollan said.
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Yahoo! News
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Japan’s vaccination rate is a red flag amid concerns about a superspreader Olympics
“The upcoming Olympics make the low rates of vaccination in Japan a substantial concern for widespread worsening of the pandemic within Japan and globally as people travel to and from the games,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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The Washington Post
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No, there’s no reason to think the covid-19 vaccines could cause infertility. But it matters how we talk about it.
“It’s crazy how pervasive and how common this myth is,” Eve Feinberg, an OB-GYN and former president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, told me. Feinberg noted that the infertility myth is particularly hard to debunk because it’s hard to disprove a negative — just because something scary hasn’t yet happened, people reason, doesn’t mean that it won’t.
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NBC News
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‘An ongoing nightmare’: People with obesity face major obstacles when seeking medical care
“This country is facing what I would call an epidemic, but we still have a health care system that’s not prepared to handle this population,” said Dr. Robert Kushner, an obesity medicine specialist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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WebMD
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Study: Stopping Statins in the Elderly May Be Risky
Neil Stone, MD, a professor of medicine and preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, says the study results aren’t surprising. “Older patients have a higher absolute risk of dying, and withdrawing proven therapy shown to reduce risk of coronary/stroke events in randomized controlled trials would be expected to result in more cardiovascular events,” he says.
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HealthDay
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Liver Cirrhosis Much More Deadly for Black Americans
“The findings underscore broader societal issues of access to health care for our Black patients,” senior study author Dr. Daniela Ladner said in a Northwestern news release. “We need to support our Black community to find the way to optimal care, including offering transplants at the same rate as all other patients,” added Ladner, a transplant surgeon and professor of surgery at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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National Geographic
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Heart problems after vaccinations are very rare—and often resolve quickly
The CDC’s numbers are also in line with what doctors report seeing in their own institutions. At his hospital in New Haven, Asnes says, his team has cared for 10 patients with post-vaccination myocarditis under age 21 and about the same number over 21. Stuart Berger, a pediatric cardiologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, says his group has seen six cases of confirmed myocarditis, mostly in boys ages 16 and up.
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Yahoo! News
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Are You Vaccinated, But Still Nervous?
That’s to be expected, says Jacqueline Gollan, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. During the height of the pandemic, “we viewed social activities as an unsafe experience. It’s hard to let that go.”
