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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TODAY
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Why racism can have long-term effects on children’s health
Dr. Nia Heard-Garris was startled when her 4-year-old son came home from preschool one day and declared, “Mommy, sometimes I’m white.” As a pediatrician who studies the impact of racism on children’s health and the mother of a Black boy with caramel skin, she carefully inquired further. He told her one of his friends said he only played with white kids.
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The New York Times
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Ginsburg Says Her Cancer Has Returned, but She’s ‘Fully Able’ to Remain on Court
Doctors not involved in her care said there were various ways to treat cancer that has spread to the liver. “We’re pretty good at controlling it with chemotherapy and targeted therapy,” said Dr. Christopher George, a medical oncologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.
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CBS News
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Remdesivir shortages force doctors to make “heart-wrenching” choices
“We need a fair and transparent process,” tweeted Michael Ison, an infectious disease physician at Northwestern University’s School of Medicine in Chicago, who referenced the “chaos” about the distribution of remdesivir.
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The Washington Post
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Long delays in getting test results hobble coronavirus response
Jaline Gerardin, an expert in disease modeling at Northwestern University, said she believes that “nationally, we’d likely save tens of thousands of lives” if test turnaround times were shortened. In the absence of a coordinated federal response, Harvard’s Jha said, states should band together — in European Union-like blocs — to solve supply problems.
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MSN.com
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A new coronavirus mutation is taking over the world. Here’s what that means.
Some clinical work has suggested that the G variant’s apparent advantage might hold outside of the Petri dish. A study, posted May 26 to the preprint database medRxiv, also not yet peer-reviewed, led by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researchers Dr. Egon Ozer, Judd Hultquist found three distinct versions of SARS-CoV-2 circulating in Chicago in mid-March.
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WBEZ
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Local researchers developing at-home kit for faster water contamination testing
“It’s a catastrophe,” said Dr. Robert Murphy, a professor of medicine and infectious disease at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Murphy said officials should “quickly” revive some coronavirus restrictions “before this gets even more out of control, which is certainly the direction that it’s going in.”
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USA Today
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The mysterious coronavirus can wreak havoc on your health. Medical care for very ill COVID-19 patients is getting better.
“Once somebody develops a treatment for the virus, everything will go away,” said Daniel Batlle, a kidney expert from Northwestern Medicine and professor of medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. Even after a vaccine is developed, treatments that save lives and prevent hospitalization will be crucial. Vaccines might not work for everyone and doses may initially be limited.
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MSN.com
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Apple Watch will measure how fit you are
“Preserving or improving functional capacity is one of the most important things we do as physicians,” says Dr. Nauman Mushtaq, an Interventional Cardiologist at Northwestern Medical Group. There are many ways to improve mobility metrics, some as simple as increasing activity levels, while others can involve more complex medical procedures.
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WTTW News
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Racism in Health Care: Providers Address a Public Health Crisis
Dr. Wendy Goodall McDonald, a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist at Northwestern Medicine and the medical influencer behind DrEveryWoman.com, said one of the key social determinants of health is health literacy.
“The studies show that even having a health advocate with you when you obtain a surgery or are admitted into the hospital matters. It actually improves health outcomes,” McDonald said. “But if a person can’t even be their own health advocate, they’re really going to have more of a disparity when it comes to getting equal and appropriate care.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Her Young Patient Got the First COVID-19 Double-Lung Transplant in the U.S.
In the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, every patient was extremely sick, but one woman in her 20s was in a class by herself. The infection, along with the severe inflammation and scarring that so often accompany it, had literally destroyed her lungs. She’d been put on a ventilator almost immediately, but after a few days even that wasn’t enough, and the ventilator was supplemented with an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine, essentially a mechanical lung.
