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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The Washington Post
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Your ability to focus may be limited to 4 or 5 hours a day. Here’s how to make the most of them.
There are also differences in how we manage our emotions, something most workers have had to deal with during the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve all been under a lot of stress and anxiety for the past year,” said Borna Bonakdarpour, a behavioral neurologist and assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “That, by itself, affects our focus.”
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The New York Times
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A Vaccine Side Effect Leaves Women Wondering: Why Isn’t the Pill Safer?
The torrent of fury online was familiar to experts in women’s health. “They should be angry — women’s health just does not get equal attention,” said Dr. Eve Feinberg, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at Northwestern University. “There’s a huge sex bias in all of medicine.”
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WTTW News
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Local Doctors Question Move to Drop Mask Mandate for Fully Vaccinated People
“It’s too soon. We need to wait a little bit longer,” said Dr. Melissa Simon, vice chair of research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “It’s not [a] health equity approach, which our leaders in CDC and across the country promised they would use a health equity lens, and this is not.”
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NBC Nightly News
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Doctor starts program to close the gap for Black organ transplant patients
Studies show that 26 percent of Black patients waiting for an organ receive one and the number is nearly double for white patients. Dr. Dinee Simpson is one of 10 Black, female transplant surgeons practicing in the U.S. She started the first and only program in the country that helps African Americans receive organs.
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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.”
