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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Where’s your closest drive-thru COVID-19 test site? Can you avoid that deep nasal swab? Your top 10 questions about coronavirus testing, answered.
“For our patients, we’ve made it pretty convenient and easy to get tested,” said Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, chief medical officer at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital. We asked Kopin, Illinois Department of Public Health spokesperson Melaney Arnold and the Cook County Department of Public Health what you need to know to navigate the new testing landscape. Here are their answers, supplemented by information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Why U of I’s COVID test may have legs
Even if the university doesn’t get a financial windfall from its testing and tracking innovation, the economic benefits could be substantial, says Philip Hockberger, an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine who also was a research administrator. “What those who have the test can do that others can’t is the tracking, the authorization,” he says.
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The Washington Post
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Stop springing forward, say sleep experts pushing standard over daylight saving time
“Standard time is going to be your best situation where your social clock, your internal biological clock and your sun clock are going to be more likely, for the most time, to be better aligned,” said Phyllis Zee, chief of sleep medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She added: “It may not be true for every single person. It really depends on where you live, whether you’re an owl or a lark. All of these things matter. But I think overall, as a general policy, that would be the healthiest solution.”
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TODAY
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Quitting dieting isn’t the right choice for everyone — here’s why
Dr. Robert Kushner, the medical director of the Center for Lifestyle Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and author of the book, Six Factors to Fit: Weight Loss that Works for You!, told TODAY that while a higher body weight isn’t always linked to poorer health outcomes, excessive body fat does present a health risk to many people.
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CNN
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Are these fast, cheap coronavirus tests the game-changer everyone is waiting for?
Dr. Robert Murphy, a professor of infectious diseases at Northwestern University and the executive director of the Institute for Global Health, is a fan. “The antigen tests are not PCR and can never be as sensitive as one of those, however, they are much faster — approximately 15 minutes — and don’t require the PCR supply-chain of reagents which is also problematic. The cost is lower because the test is much more simple,” he explained.
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Associated Press
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Mounting U.S. deaths reveal an outsize toll on people of color
Dr. Namratha Kandula of Northwestern University echoed that theory. She also cautioned against generalizing about the underlying health of Asian Americans as a whole, noting that they are a diverse group from many different nations and cultures. “It’s not enough to clump them all together because it does not tell the whole story,” she said.
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Chicago Tribune
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More movies are coming to theaters. But is it safe?
“It’s not something I would feel comfortable doing for a long time,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist and assistant professor in preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Another epidemiologist was even more blunt: “It’s just about the last thing I’d do right now,” Michigan-based Dr. Abdul El-Sayed told the A.V. Club.
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ABC7 Chicago
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Perfect match: Daughter donates kidney to her mother with diabetes
The surgery was performed by Dr. Dinee Simpson who said she’s all too familiar with patients who are fearful or do not trust their doctors. “Based on a lot of misinformation and myths that tend to circulate in the African American community, patients will decide not to move forward with something that can be life-saving and life-changing,” she said.
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CNN
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‘Rolling hotspots’ are the new normal: Sun Belt states see progress on coronavirus as rates drift up in the Midwest
“The Midwest was relatively spared. We were prepared because what happened in New York; [it] was such a catastrophe that things got very serious out here in the Midwest — Republican and Democratic governors alike — really were very careful. And that was good, so we had really a low rate of cases,” explained Dr. Rob Murphy, a professor of infectious diseases and of biomedical engineering, and the executive director of the Institute for Global Health, at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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ABC7 Chicago
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Convalescent plasma: Doctors weigh in on COVID-19 treatment already in use in Chicago hospitals
Dr. Sadiya Khan with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine says more data is needed. “I don’t want people to let down their guard or get overly optimistic about this because we still need to be wearing masks, trying to physical distance as much as much as we did yesterday,” she said. Convalescent plasma treatment is already in use at Chicago area hospitals.
