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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Fox 32
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How COVID-19 can impact the heart
[VIDEO] Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Medicine, talks about the varying impacts of COVID-19 on patients’ hearts.
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The Wall Street Journal
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Doctors Begin to Crack Covid’s Mysterious Long-Term Effects
She enrolled in a research study at the Neuro Covid-19 Clinic at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, one of several clinics across the country aiming to find solutions for patients. Some symptoms could be collateral damage from the body’s immune response during the acute infection, researchers said. Some patients might harbor an undetectable reservoir of infectious virus or have bits of noninfectious virus in some cells that trigger an immune response, they said.
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ABC News
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Contemplating death in a year when it feels closer
Even physicians are dealing with anxiety, some for the first time, says Joan Anzia, psychiatrist and professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She often counsels those in the health care field and says this sense of mortality is even hitting them. “It’s been decades since physicians have had to endanger their own lives and put their own life at risk just by going to work,” she tells me when I call her.
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MSN
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There’s Now a Birth-Control Gel, but Is It the Right Choice For You? Ob-Gyns Break It Down
Susan Mitchell, MD, a board-certified ob-gyn at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, explained that the rate of effectiveness is a direct result of the way Phexxi works. “It doesn’t necessarily kill the sperm,” Dr. Mitchell told POPSUGAR. “It just decreases their motility, so it’s harder for them to reach and fertilize an egg.”
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The Washington Post
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Poor and minority children with food allergies are overlooked and in danger
Black children are 7 percent more likely to have food allergies than White children, according to a 2020 study by Ruchi Gupta, a pediatrician and professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. To be sure, the study shows that Asian children are 24 percent more likely than White children to have food allergies. But Black and Hispanic children are disproportionately more likely to live in poor communities, to have asthma and to suffer from systemic racism in the delivery of medical care.
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CBS News
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U.S. surpasses 9 million coronavirus cases
Video from inside the intensive care unit at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital shows front line workers battling coronavirus in plastic body armor. Illinois on Friday recorded its highest number of hospitalizations since early June, with 6,943. Hospitalizations in the state are up at least 85% in the last month.
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TODAY
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As US surpasses 9 million coronavirus cases, cities enact new restrictions
[VIDEO – with Khalilah Gates, MD] For the second straight day, the U.S. set a new record for daily coronavirus cases, with more than 90,000 recorded on Thursday. The dramatic increase has led to a growing number of states putting tough new restrictions in place. NBC’s Kathy Park reports for TODAY from Chicago, where rules to curb the crisis are going into effect.
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Chicago Tribune
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Antibody drug tested in Cook County may be helpful to some COVID-19 patients, results show
A new antibody-based drug shows promise in treating outpatients who have mild to severe COVID-19, according to initial results of research conducted in part at Cook County Health and Northwestern University.
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Chicago Tribune
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Dr. Ngozi Ezike’s emotional moment shows health care workers feel COVID-19 fatigue too. ‘We feel trapped in many ways.’
Dr. Seth Trueger is tired of the pandemic. He misses his regular breakfast restaurant, which he now passes without stopping because of the risk of eating indoors. He misses his beard, which is now shaved because he wears masks every day. And he misses the old version of his job, when he didn’t have to calculate the risk of possible death with every action.Trueger is an emergency room doctor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he has been on the front lines of COVID-19 since it was declared a pandemic in March.
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The Washington Post
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‘This is not a Miss America contest’: Sexism in science, research is challenged
“It’s baked into the system,” says Melissa Simon, vice chair for clinical research at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and founding director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern. Once flawed research is published, she says, it can have a chilling effect on other scientists and create distrust among patients who might turn down the opportunity to participate in research studies and clinical trials. “Clearly there are papers out there that potentially do harm to advancing science.”
