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.
-
HealthDay
–
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.
-
Chicago Tribune
–
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.”
-
The New York Times
–
Kids Can Be ‘Homesick and Happy’ at Camp
“Kids are going to pick up on that fear, and have some resistance, because they’re sensing you’re worried. I’d be really cognizant of what you’re putting out there,” said Dr. Nia Heard-Garris, a pediatrician and a researcher at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
-
NBC Chicago
–
New Artificial Intelligence Software at Northwestern Will Help Scan Mammograms
Northwestern Medicine’s Dr. Sarah Friedewald, Chief of Breast Imaging, says the goal is to find problems faster and in fewer visits. “Their algorithm was able to detect more cancers than the radiologist,” said Dr. Friedewald. “It’s really about reprioritizing the cases so that we see the more concerning cases first.”
-
Chicago Tribune
–
To mask or not to mask? New rules in Illinois and Chicago raise new questions for residents, from doctors to schoolteachers.
For now, Dr. Jeffrey Linder, Northwestern Medicine’s chief of general internal medicine and geriatrics, has a generally clear line. He plans on wearing a mask indoors and not wearing a mask outdoors. “Outdoors is easier,” he said. “It has always seemed very low-risk to me and, since more data has come out about the effectiveness of vaccines, even lower risk.”
-
TODAY
–
Man undergoes first known successful ‘COVID-to-COVID’ double lung transplant
Since COVID-19 had caused permanent damage to his lungs, Aquino was placed on a lung donor list, according to his physician, Dr. Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgery chief at Northwestern Medicine. A week later, Bharat got the good news that a donor was found.
-
WTTW News
–
Northwestern Team Develops Wireless Monitors for Pregnant Moms
Now a team of researchers at Northwestern University has developed a suite of wireless devices that can do all that current monitors do — but at much less cost — and all while freeing up the expectant mother. John Rogers is the leader of the research team and a world-renowned bioelectronics pioneer known for developing cutting-edge wireless medical monitors for a variety of uses.
-
Chicago Tribune
–
Cutting-edge multiple sclerosis treatment at Northwestern restores local college student’s vision, balance and energy: ‘I am a new person,’ says 22-year-old Ivy Marcucci
In HSCT for MS, a procedure pioneered in the U.S. by Northwestern University’s Dr. Richard Burt, chief of the division of immunotherapy, the immune system is suppressed with powerful medications before being allowed to reboot, with the hope that it will reset to normal function and stop attacking healthy tissue.
-
HealthDay
–
Debunking Social Media Myth, Study Finds COVID Vaccine Won’t Harm Placenta
“The placenta is like the black box in an airplane. If something goes wrong with a pregnancy, we usually see changes in the placenta that can help us figure out what happened,” said lead researcher Dr. Jeffery Goldstein. He is an assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago.[…] At the same time, said researcher Dr. Emily Miller, a Northwestern Medicine maternal fetal medicine physician, “We have reached a stage in vaccine distribution where we are seeing vaccine hesitancy, and this hesitancy is pronounced for pregnant people.
-
Fox News
–
Coronavirus long haulers often face fatigue, neurologic symptoms months later: study
For instance, a team of experts at Northwestern Medicine published related findings in March. An analysis of 100 non-hospitalized “long haulers” found that most patients reported more than four neurologic symptoms, with “brain fog” being the most predominant. Nearly half of the group reported depression/anxiety prior to coronavirus diagnosis.
