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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COVID-19 Can Start With Neurological Symptoms
“It’s important for the general public and physicians to be aware of this, because a SARS-COV-2 infection may present with neurologic symptoms initially, before any fever, cough or respiratory problems occur,” said researcher Dr. Igor Koralnik. He is chief of neuro-infectious diseases and global neurology, and a professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago.
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The New York Times
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The Impact of Disparities on Children’s Health
Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a professor of pediatrics who is the director of the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research at Northwestern and Lurie Children Hospital, studies these conditions which, like eczema, represent forms of atopy, hypersensitivity in which the body’s defenses overreact, potentially causing harm.
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Huffington Post
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How To Take Time Off From Work For Your Mental Health
Melinda Ring, executive director of Northwestern Medicine’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, suggests creating a plan to make sure you get the most out of your leave. “I recommend setting up a daily and weekly schedule of goals and appointments to help someone keep on track without getting overwhelmed, and also identify a support team that includes both health professionals and a personal network,” Ring said.
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The New York Times
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Covid-19 Patient Gets Double Lung Transplant, Offering Hope for Others
The 10-hour surgery was more difficult and took several hours longer than most lung transplants because inflammation from the disease had left the woman’s lungs “completely plastered to tissue around them, the heart, the chest wall and diaphragm,” said Dr. Ankit Bharat, the chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of the lung transplant program at Northwestern Medicine, which includes Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in an interview.
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CNN
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Quarantine fatigue: Why some of us have stopped being vigilant and how to overcome it
Fast-forward three months, and that sense of immediacy may have faded. Caution fatigue “occurs when people show low motivation or energy to comply with safety guidelines,” said Jacqueline Gollan, who holds two professorships at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine: one in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and another in obstetrics and gynecology.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Pill Might Prevent Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions
That would be “life-changing” for people who live in fear of anaphylaxis, according to senior researcher Dr. Bruce Bochner. Right now, he said, those people largely depend on avoiding their allergy trigger, which can be difficult. Otherwise, there are some options for warding off certain severe reactions, said Bochner, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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NPR
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Beyond Protests: 5 More Ways To Channel Anger Into Action To Fight Racism
“A lot of people of color are tired. We’re tired of being the unseen and misunderstood,” says Inger E Burnett-Zeigler, a psychologist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She’d like to see more voices at the table.
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Yahoo! News
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More than 7 million women in the U.S. have this deadly disease. Here’s how it affects their physical and mental health.
Women smokers are about 50 percent more likely to develop COPD than male smokers, according to a review published in 2016 in the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine. They are also more likely to develop it earlier (before age 60) and even with less smoking. “The airways of women are smaller than those of men, so one theory is that there’s a greater concentration of tobacco smoke and other irritants in them,” explains Marc Sala, MD, pulmonologist and critical care specialist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. A study presented last year at the American Thoracic Society International Conference found that women with COPD reported smoking less than men but experienced worse symptoms, reported lower quality of life and more flare-ups.
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Chicago Tribune
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Hundreds of health care workers in Chicago take a silent knee in #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives demonstration: ‘It’s a human rights issue. It’s a health care issue.’
Hundreds of health care workers flooded the plaza outside Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital on Friday morning for a #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives demonstration that covered the sidewalks on both sides of Fairbanks Avenue from Superior Street on the south to Chicago Avenue on the north. “It’s not just about this single, 10-minute gesture,” said Parul Gupta, an obstetrics and gynecology doctor who helped organize the demonstration. “It’s about what we’re going to do next. How we’re going to deal with teaching implicit bias, as we already do with our medical and resident students, but also with the faculty and the private faculty as well. This is not a political issue. It’s a human rights issue. It’s a health care issue.”
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TODAY
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Why coronavirus guidance keeps changing — and what you really need to know
“The virus does not discriminate against who it hits, whether you went to a protest or went to get your hair cut,” said Dr. Michelle Prickett, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “Everyone still has to practice the same hand hygiene, social distancing, masking and ways of retaining the virus to themselves so that we can reopen the country. We all have the same goal.”
