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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U.S. News & World Report
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Exclusive: Research Finds Concerning Drop in U.S. Colorectal Cancer Screenings and Surgeries
“Some surgeries can be postponed by a little bit, but this was certainly striking,” said Dr. Al Benson, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. “This will continue to be a challenge, because as the pandemic begins to subside and we begin to schedule more normally, there’s going to be a lot of catch-up. We don’t want people to further postpone screenings, and we certainly don’t want to postpone surgeries.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Fear of COVID-19 leads other patients to decline critical treatment
“The hospital was an ominous, nerve-racking and scary place for patients even before COVID,” said Dr. Lisa VanWagner, a transplant hepatologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. “Now you take a stressful situation like a pandemic and you tell people that they cannot have their normal support system while they’re in the hospital, and that really magnifies those fears.”
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The New York Times
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Black Coronavirus Patients Land in Hospitals More Often, Study Finds
Dr. Clyde W. Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said the granular study of patient records bolstered cruder public health reports of higher Covid-19 death rates among black Americans. The data confirm that socioeconomic factors play an outsize role in influencing health status and vulnerability to infection, he added. “Where and how we live contributes greatly to our health,” said Dr. Yancy, who has written about health disparities and the pandemic.
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The New York Times
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Tiger Woods’s Return Puts His Back in the Spotlight Again
“If he were to chase the record books, it would need to occur pretty soon,” Dr. Wellington K. Hsu, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital who has studied athletes after spinal fusion operations, said on Friday. “It’s more likely he would have success now rather than three, four or five years down the road. At least based on medical science.”
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NBC News
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PSA testing: Deadly prostate cancer cases rising as screening declines
Dr. Edward Schaeffer, chair of urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said the new study adds to earlier research, including his own 2016 study, that raised concerns about an increasing incidence of advanced prostate cancer. Though the explanation is unclear and could potentially include environmental, lifestyle or other factors, he said he believes the changing screening guidelines were a driving factor. “When you relax screening, these are the downstream effects,” he said.
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CNN
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Why overcoming COVID-19 is just the first hurdle of a much longer journey
Herbert’s rapid worsening was even jarring for his medical team caring for him. “It was certainly unusual how quickly he went from a period of apparent stability to requiring ventilatory support,” said Dr. Neal Greenfield, a critical care physician who helped care for Michael at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva, Illinois.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Exclusive: CDC Plans Sweeping COVID-19 Antibody Study in 25 Metropolitan Areas
The CDC study may not “generate results that are generalizable to the population,” Thomas McDade, a researcher at Northwestern University, said in an interview. Still, it could “substantially add to our understanding of (COVID-19) infections,” said Dr. Susan Philip, deputy health officer at the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
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WebMD
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More Vitamin D, Lower Risk of Severe COVID-19?
At Northwestern University, researchers used modeling to estimate that 17% of those deficient in vitamin D would develop a severe COVID-19 infection, but only about 14% of those with healthy vitamin D levels. They estimated the association between vitamin D and severe COVID-19 based on a potential link between vitamin D deficiency and C-reactive proteins, or CRP, a surrogate marker for severe COVID-19
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The New York Times
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‘COVID Toes,’ Other Rashes Latest Possible Rare Virus Signs
It’s showing up in young people too, according to Dr. Amy Paller of Northwestern University, who is part of a pediatric dermatology registry also collecting images of patients’ toes. Among the theories: Is it just inflammation triggered by an infection instead of the cold? Is the virus irritating the lining of blood vessels in the skin, or perhaps causing microscopic blood clots?
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CNN
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Thousands of people want to be exposed to Covid-19 for science
Seema Shah, a bioethicist and associate professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine — and an author of the Science article — said participants of a recent 40-day human-challenge study for malaria were paid about $2,300. “Some were very motivated by the money, but others were also interested in the experience, and still others have strong motivations to help others,” she said, adding that some participants personally knew sufferers of malaria and some even donated some of their earnings to charities.
