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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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.
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Chicago Tribune
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COVID-19 cases are spiking in states across the country. How does Illinois compare?
“It’s (at) a level of concern that, if we didn’t change what we’re doing now, that we could be headed toward a Texas or Arizona sort of situation,” Jaline Gerardin, a Northwestern University assistant professor of preventive medicine who works on virus modeling, said in an interview Thursday.
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NBC News
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NASCAR is a rare sport that has found success navigating an era of upheaval
“Football teams, basketball teams, they’re very close to each other,” said Dr. Robert Murphy, the director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “The players are swearing, they’re coughing, they’re shouting, they’re in very close proximity. So the team sports are so far more at risk for spreading this around.”
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Chicago Tribune
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20 questions about assessing your COVID-19 risk at restaurants, gyms, the office and more
COVID-19 outbreaks in the south and west have added a layer of anxiety to how to think about the public activities now available to Illinoisans in phase four. Each person must now assess what level of risk they are comfortable with when it comes to activities such as dining out, working out or returning to the office. To help in this process, the Tribune again talked to Dr. Benjamin Singer, assistant professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care) and biochemistry and molecular genetics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine;
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TODAY
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Kidney donors and recipients meet for the first time
Just prior to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the kidney pair donation program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital allowed four donors to be matched to four unknown recipients. Watch the eight donors and recipients meets for the first time via video call.
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The Washington Post
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This coronavirus mutation has taken over the world. Scientists are trying to understand why.
When the first coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in China weeks before. But as Egon Ozer, an infectious-disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, examined the genetic structure of virus samples from local patients, he noticed something different.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Crain’s 2020 Notable Health Heroes
Reminders of the COVID crisis are everywhere: the ubiquitous masks, social distancing rules and shortages of flour and toilet paper. Yet out of plain sight are the doctors, nurses, EMTs, home health care providers and janitors on the front lines. They work long hours and put their own health on the line to help others. They’re away from their families for extended periods and when they do arrive home, they self-isolate and refrain from hugging their spouses and children.
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USA Today
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COVID-19 may be linked to brain complications, study finds. But does it cause them?
The study, though small, helps paint a larger picture of the many types of neurological effects of COVID-19, said Dr. Babak Jahromi, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Medicine. “While we’ve learnt over the past few months that hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a higher risk of suffering ischemic strokes, the current study adds to that picture by also showing neuropsychiatric disorders in hospitalized COVID-19 patients,” Jahromi said.
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Reuters
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Scientists just beginning to understand the many health problems caused by COVID-19
Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuro-infectious diseases at Northwestern Medicine, reviewed current scientific literature and found about half of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had neurological complications, such as dizziness, decreased alertness, difficulty concentrating, disorders of smell and taste, seizures, strokes, weakness and muscle pain.[…]The broad and diverse manifestations of COVID-19 are somewhat unique, said Dr. Sadiya Khan, a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.With influenza, people with underlying heart conditions are also at higher risk of complications, Khan said. What is surprising about this virus is the extent of the complications occurring outside the lungs.
