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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Yahoo! News
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‘I was in so much pain’: Broadway dancer needs new kidney after failed transplant
“While no kidney will last forever, a kidney transplant is expected to last for several years,” Dr. Dinee C. Simpson, a transplant surgeon at Northwestern Medicine, tells Yahoo Life.”It’s very uncommon to lose a kidney so quickly, and its a devastating event for all involved.”
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Chicago Tribune
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‘I was so shocked:’ Healthcare worker denied Moderna vaccine because Kane County says it will not give it to pregnant or breastfeeding moms
Denying women vaccines is concerning for multiple reasons, said Dr. Emily Miller, assistant professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Northwestern Medicine’s Feinberg School of Medicine. It sends a message that women cannot make decisions about their own health and body. And for breastfeeding moms, it could add pressure to wean. “That just creates a whole different risk balance that doesn’t need to be introduced,” she said. “That’s just not fair to put women in that scenario.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Daily Green Tea, Coffee Tied to Lower Risk for Second Heart Attack, Stroke
Tea drinkers in the study tended to have a healthy intake of fish and vegetables, noted Van Horn, who is also a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. Those cautions made, Van Horn said that specific plant compounds — in the case of green tea, one called epigallocatechin-gallate — “are increasingly being recognized as having important anti-inflammatory cardio-metabolic benefits.”
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ABC News
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Nurse fulfills promise to dying patient to be at daughter’s nursing school graduation
Sanja Josipovic, who at the time worked as a home health nurse with Northwestern Medicine in Winfield, Illinois cared for Sevala Habibovic inside her home. Both women were Bosnian refugees and they developed a friendship over six months of care.
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USA Today
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People who smoke are prioritized to get the COVID-19 vaccine before the general population. Here’s why.
“I could see why people would feel as if that would be unfair but people who are smokers are in general at higher risk for getting sicker when they develop COVID-19,” said Dr. Samuel Kim, a thoracic surgeon at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. A study, published Jan. 25 in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found that people who smoke or who have smoked in the past are more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19 than people who haven’t smoked.
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The Washington Post
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Many who have received the coronavirus vaccine wonder: What can I safely do?
Melanie Swift, co-director of the Mayo Clinic’s vaccination-distribution program, said she would not fly for pleasure, only for work. Given the high level of virus in much of the United States, geriatrician June McKoy of Northwestern Medicine said even people who are vaccinated need to be careful when visiting inoculated elderly relatives, and should wear masks and sanitize their hands.
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USA Today
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‘It’s not a pretty picture’: Why the lack of racial data around COVID vaccines is ‘massive barrier’ to better distribution
“Communities should be able to generate daily and certainly weekly data to understand the demographics of who is being vaccinated. Local health departments and health institutions need to respond to these data in real time to identify where COVID-19 vaccine uptake is not matching COVID-19 disease burden,” wrote Dr. Muriel Jean-Jacques, Northwestern University Department of Medicine vice chair of diversity, equity and inclusion, and Dr. Howard C. Bauchner of the Boston University School of Medicine, a professor of pediatrics and community health.
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CNN
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Why parents should brace themselves for another uncertain summer and fall
“From an ethics standpoint, you don’t want to start studying a medication with vulnerable populations like children and pregnant women until you have proven safety and efficacy in the adult population,” explained Dr. Larry Kociolek, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and medical director of infection prevention and control at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
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Chicago Tribune
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Is the COVID-19 pandemic growing or shrinking in Illinois? New website tracks a key metric.
One of the site’s founders, Jaline Gerardin, said one goal was to offer residents Rt as a better way to gauge “how things are going” than the percentage of tests that come back positive, a commonly cited metric called the test positivity rate. Plus, she said, researchers wanted residents to get a better understanding of how the projections are made.
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NBC 5 Chicago
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Illinois Coronavirus Updates: FEMA Gives $43M for Vaccinations, How CPS’ Reopening Plan Compares
“Nothing changes after the vaccine. We will still need to socially distance and wear our masks. We should avoid our frail elders, because we just do not know the strength of their immune response to the vaccine and whether they have built up sufficient antibodies,” Northwestern Medicine geriatrician and professor Dr. June McCoy said.
