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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HealthDay
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Debunking Social Media Myth, Study Finds COVID Vaccine Won’t Harm Placenta
“The placenta is like the black box in an airplane. If something goes wrong with a pregnancy, we usually see changes in the placenta that can help us figure out what happened,” said lead researcher Dr. Jeffery Goldstein. He is an assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago.[…] At the same time, said researcher Dr. Emily Miller, a Northwestern Medicine maternal fetal medicine physician, “We have reached a stage in vaccine distribution where we are seeing vaccine hesitancy, and this hesitancy is pronounced for pregnant people.
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Fox News
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Coronavirus long haulers often face fatigue, neurologic symptoms months later: study
For instance, a team of experts at Northwestern Medicine published related findings in March. An analysis of 100 non-hospitalized “long haulers” found that most patients reported more than four neurologic symptoms, with “brain fog” being the most predominant. Nearly half of the group reported depression/anxiety prior to coronavirus diagnosis.
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USA Today
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‘Black fungus’ is appearing more frequently among COVID-19 patients in India. What to know about the deadly infection.
“That’s the goal of going on steroids, to turn down the volume on the immune system,” said Dr. Michael Angarone, associate professor of medicine at Northwestern Medicine.
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The New York Times
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They’re Not Anti-Vaccine, but These Parents Are Hesitant About the Covid Shot
Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, a pediatrician and a researcher at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, said that she understands parents’ hesitations. “That kind of conversation has been present before we had a feasible vaccine, especially from groups that have been marginalized and experimented on. It’s not a fear that’s far-fetched,” she said.
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The New York Times
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New Drugs Could Help Treat Obesity. Could They End the Stigma, Too?
If incretins pass the approval process, they might help convince the most important constituency of all — doctors — that obesity is a chronic disease and that it can be treated, said Dr. Robert F. Kushner, an obesity researcher and clinician at Northwestern University. One reason many doctors don’t help patients with obesity is that they don’t know how, Dr. Kushner said.
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CNN
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Covid vaccines do not harm placenta, contrary to social media misinformation, study finds
“We have reached a stage in vaccine distribution where we are seeing vaccine hesitancy, and this hesitancy is pronounced for pregnant people,” said Dr. Emily Miller, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern Medicine, in a statement. In a new study published Tuesday, Miller and her team at Northwestern confirmed that Covid-19 vaccines do not harm the placenta and affect pregnancy adversely as a result.
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WTTW News
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Vaccine Hesitancy Driven for Some by Fear of Allergic Reactions
Dr. Robert Murphy leads the Institute for Global Health at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. He says there is far more flexibility to request a certain vaccine at a certain location now because of the current supply-and-demand situation. “There is more vaccine now than people willing to take the vaccine,” Murphy said.
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Chicago Tribune
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‘I think we’ll be testing forever’: Testing remains a vital tool in war on COVID-19, despite growing number of vaccinations
Heather Keirnan, vice president of operations for Northwestern Medicine Immediate Care, recalled the early days of the pandemic when doctors didn’t have enough COVID-19 tests to give to the onslaught of people showing symptoms of the virus. Without any diagnostic clarity, people with a cough or sore throat stayed home for two weeks, until the symptoms abated, never sure if they actually contracted the virus.
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Chicago Tribune
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Kids as young as 12 are cleared to get the COVID-19 vaccine. How parents can ease their fears.
Dora Castro-Ahillen, child life service manager at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, said children with autism or sensory processing disorders may benefit from a vaccination rehearsal of sorts. “It’s important to know what are some of the things they are going to feel, smell, hear — anything that helps them prepare,” Castro-Ahillen said.
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The Washington Post
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Why young people are using preventive Botox, and what they need to know
While patients often ask Murad Alam, a professor and vice chair of dermatology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, if something bad will happen if they decide to discontinue treatments, the answer, he said, is “a very unequivocal and certain no.”
