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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Study Questions Need to Wait Days to Give Baby New Foods
“Waiting for days between each new food introduction to infants limits food diversity in the infant diet and may delay peanut introduction,” said study lead author Dr. Waheeda Samady, an assistant professor of pediatrics. “There is now evidence that food diversity helps to decrease the development of allergic diseases in infants, and early peanut introduction is an important peanut allergy prevention strategy,” she said in a hospital news release. “The current guidelines on solid food introduction to infants might interfere with efforts to prevent food allergies, and may need to be reevaluated, especially in light of the variability in pediatric practice found in our study.”
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Associated Press
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Old US Soccer jerseys become unique protective masks
When a bunch of old U.S. national team soccer jerseys were found in the basement of the Soccer House, a stately old mansion that serves as U.S. Soccer’s headquarters in Chicago, the federation’s chief medical officer, Dr. George Chiampas, thought they could be put to a unique use. “Several of our staff, our federation said, ‘What can we do to use this beautiful game to be able to support frontline workers? To disseminate a message to make a difference?’” said Chiampas, who works at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial hospital.
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National Public Radio
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‘She Was So Sick’: From COVID-19 Diagnosis To A Double Lung Transplant
During six weeks on life support at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ramirez said, she had terrifying nightmares that she couldn’t distinguish from reality. “Most of them involve me drowning,” she said. “I attribute that to me not being able to breathe, and struggling to breathe.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Thinking about a Labor Day road trip? Here are some ways to stay safe during the pandemic.
Dr. June McKoy, a Northwestern University associate professor of medicine, medical education and preventive medicine, suggests creating a packing list that includes prescription and over-the-counter medications, hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, rolls of paper towels, water and snacks. Also remember to bring gloves and masks.
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Chicago Tribune
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These psychiatrists wrote an open letter to Michelle Obama about her low-grade depression. ‘We stand in solidarity with the vulnerability you expressed.’
As soon as Northwestern psychiatrist Aderonke Bamgbose Pederson heard Michelle Obama say she’s experiencing “low-grade depression,” Pederson knew she wanted to affirm and amplify the former first lady’s words. Obama’s acknowledgement on her podcast that she feels uncharacteristically low, that she struggles with sleeplessness, that she’s exhausted and weighed down by the coronavirus pandemic and racial strife in the United States, mirrors what many of Pederson’s patients describe, and lends the vocabulary — and permission — for others who may be struggling to put words to what they’re feeling.
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The Washington Post
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Don’t just look at covid-19 fatality rates. Look at people who survive — but don’t entirely recover.
Now, data is coming in behind the anecdotes, and while it’s preliminary, it’s also “concerning,” says Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. A recent study from Germany followed up with 100 recovered patients, two-thirds of whom were never sick enough to be hospitalized. Seventy-eight showed signs of cardiac involvement, and MRIs indicated that 60 of them had ongoing cardiac inflammation, even though it had been at least two months since their diagnosis.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Nationwide Coronavirus Cases Are Down – But So Is Testing
“I want to be enthusiastic about the numbers going down, but it’s really hard to convince me that it’s not because we’re just doing fewer tests,” says Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of cardiology and preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Chicago Tribune
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Study: Deaths from heart failure and high blood pressure are rising in the US, and Black men and women suffer more severely
The findings are significant, because they’ll inform the health care community in developing better prevention strategies, particularly for heart failure and hypertension, said Dr. Nilay Shah, the study’s lead author and a Northwestern Medicine physician.[…] “This (study) really outlined that, despite the progress we’ve made in coronary heart disease related to heart attack deaths, it’s all been completely erased, it seems, by heart failure and high blood pressure,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, a co-author of the study and an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern.
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The Wall Street Journal
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New U.S. Coronavirus Cases Tick Up Again as Back-to-School Worries Intensify
“We need to keep up, if not accelerate, the testing pace,” said Dr. Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
Ms. Carnethon used Vermont, where the prevalence of the virus has been low, as an example. “Even if a place has low rates of disease, we need to continue testing there” to monitor what is happening in the population, she said.
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The New York Times
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Why Your Brain Short-Circuits When a Kid Cries
So I asked Crystal Clark, M.D., a psychiatrist and associate professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, for advice on how to manage the mid-work meltdowns. First, she said, be sure to check in with your kid about how they’re feeling. You know your child best: If their upset is extreme, try to take even just a brief period out of your work day to soothe them.
