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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Chicago Tribune
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Black OB-GYN residents treat patients who might have never seen a provider of color — ‘And now there’s five of us’
At Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital, for the first time anyone at the facility can remember, a team of OB-GYN medical residents is all Black and all female. The five doctors work together daily, treating patients and learning in virtual programs as they work toward becoming OB-GYNs.
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U.S. News & World Report
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AHA News: Surprisingly Few Women May Have Good Heart Health Before Pregnancy
“I was quite surprised by those numbers,” said researcher Natalie A. Cameron. “Our rates and trends were mostly driven by overweight and obesity. However, up to 4% to 5% of women in some states had two or more risk factors, demonstrating an important contribution of diabetes and hypertension to unfavorable health prior to pregnancy.”
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The New York Times
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Scientists Drove Mice to Bond by Zapping Their Brains With Light
The tool also allowed researchers to independently control multiple devices — and multiple animals — at once. Dr. Rogers and Dr. Kozorovitskiy began looking for a way to test it. Dr. Kozorovitskiy had seen the Cell study showing that interacting mice produce synchronies in the medial prefrontal cortex. Perhaps, she thought, the optogenetic device could test the converse relationship: If two animals’ brains were synchronized, would the animals become more social?
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HealthDay
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Could COVID-19 Trigger Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the Young?
CFS symptoms have cropped up in many patients recovering from COVID-19 infection, said Dr. Colin Franz, a clinician-scientist with the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab at Northwestern Medicine and director of the regenerative neurorehabilitation laboratory at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, both in Chicago.
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HealthDay
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COVID-19 Symptom Exacerbation Leading Cause of Reencounters
Jeffrey R. Clark, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues characterized ACHEs, encompassing emergency department visits, observation stays, and hospital readmissions, following COVID-19 hospitalization and examined factors associated with these reencounters. The first 509 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 within a hospital network were identified, and ACHEs experienced within 30 days and four months of index hospitalization were examined.
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Chicago Tribune
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Return visits to hospital for additional care were common for many early COVID-19 patients as the disease’s impact lingered, new study finds
The Northwestern Medicine study, published Friday in a peer-reviewed science journal that focuses on aging, found that more than 20% of the surviving patients who were admitted to the hospital during the first month of the pandemic returned to the hospital within four months. Of those, 12% returned in the first 30 days.[…]“The real burden of COVID-19 isn’t going to end at the doors of hospital when people are discharged,” said Dr. Eric Liotta, a Northwestern Medicine neurocritical care specialist who co-authored the study. “There is a group of people dealing with a very protracted set of symptoms.”
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The New York Times
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Kids Can Be ‘Homesick and Happy’ at Camp
“Kids are going to pick up on that fear, and have some resistance, because they’re sensing you’re worried. I’d be really cognizant of what you’re putting out there,” said Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, a pediatrician and a researcher at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
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NBC Chicago
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New Artificial Intelligence Software at Northwestern Will Help Scan Mammograms
Northwestern Medicine’s Dr. Sarah Friedewald, Chief of Breast Imaging, says the goal is to find problems faster and in fewer visits. “Their algorithm was able to detect more cancers than the radiologist,” said Dr. Friedewald. “It’s really about reprioritizing the cases so that we see the more concerning cases first.”
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Chicago Tribune
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To mask or not to mask? New rules in Illinois and Chicago raise new questions for residents, from doctors to schoolteachers.
For now, Dr. Jeffrey Linder, Northwestern Medicine’s chief of general internal medicine and geriatrics, has a generally clear line. He plans on wearing a mask indoors and not wearing a mask outdoors. “Outdoors is easier,” he said. “It has always seemed very low-risk to me and, since more data has come out about the effectiveness of vaccines, even lower risk.”
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TODAY
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Man undergoes first known successful ‘COVID-to-COVID’ double lung transplant
Since COVID-19 had caused permanent damage to his lungs, Aquino was placed on a lung donor list, according to his physician, Dr. Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgery chief at Northwestern Medicine. A week later, Bharat got the good news that a donor was found.
