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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Fox News
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Coffee consumption linked to lower risk of COVID-19 infection
Researchers with Northwestern University published findings in the Nutrients journal, stemming from an analysis of nearly 40,000 participants in the U.K. Biobank. The team studied participants’ dietary habits in 2006-2010 and hypothesized the subsequent risk of coronavirus infection in 2020. Researchers specifically looked at participants’ consumption of coffee, tea, processed meat, red meat, fruit, vegetables and oily fish.
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WebMD
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What Can Make Narcolepsy Worse?
A drop in hypocretin is part of narcolepsy with cataplexy, where strong emotions, especially laughter or surprise, trigger a sudden loss of muscle tone. In movies, characters with cataplexy suddenly go limp, fall over, and hit the ground. In reality, the symptom isn’t usually that dramatic, says Michael Awad, MD, chief of the Division of Sleep Surgery at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago and chief medical officer of PEAK Sleep.
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Chicago Tribune
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518 Illinois residents have been hospitalized with COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated. Most had underlying conditions, state data shows.
“Right now, they are still very rare,” Dr. Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, a COVID-19 scientist and researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said of breakthrough infections. Even with the new delta variants, the protection rate offered by vaccines continues to be high, he said.
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HealthDay
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Rare ‘Breakthrough’ COVID Infections in Vaccinated Are Milder: Study
This study took place before the advent of the Delta variant, which is 50 to 80 times more transmissible than the original Alpha strain of COVID-19, noted Dr. Tina Tan, a professor specializing in pediatric infectious diseases at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago.
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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.
