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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MSN
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This Woman Just Got a Double Lung Transplant After Spending 45 Days on a Ventilator Fighting COVID-19
Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago performed this surgery on another patient in June. The patient, a woman in her 20s, was seriously ill when her lungs were replaced with donor lungs. “If she didn’t get the transplant, she would not be alive,” Ankit Bharat, MD, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director at the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program, said during a press conference following the procedure.
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American Heart Association
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Food insecurity linked to higher risk of cardiovascular death
Mercedes R. Carnethon Ph.D., FAHA, a member of the American Heart Association’s Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Leadership Committee, said the analysis is comprehensive with some concerning trends. “We know food insecurity and other social determinants of health can adversely impact heart and stroke risk factors like high blood pressure and diabetes, and this impact is disproportionately higher among traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic groups,” said Carnethon, the Mary Harris Thompson Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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USA Today
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Biden’s approach to tackling COVID-19 will be dramatically different, and quickly apparent
Karen Weintraub and Elizabeth Weise
Lori Post, director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, hopes Biden’s actions will resemble Roosevelt’s, who managed to create an office of malaria control even though World War II was raging. Formed in Atlanta, where malaria was then a major problem, the office later became known as the CDC and established the United States as the preeminent source of public health information in the world. -
Chicago Tribune
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Can you catch COVID-19 twice? Is immunity real? What about ocular transmission? Health and science experts answer reader questions about the coronavirus.
“Unfortunately, there is no risk-free gathering,” wrote Dr. Benjamin Singer, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in an email. But, if you do choose to congregate with loved ones for the holiday season, he suggests keeping groups small and spending most of the time outside. Masks should be worn, said Singer, and social distancing rules should be followed. The risk isn’t gone, but these precautions can “reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19.”
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The Washington Post
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U.S. sets another daily record for coronavirus cases as some states struggle
“It is community spread everywhere,” said Jaline Gerardin, an epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. In part, the greater numbers are the result of the increased availability of testing, she said. But the main problem was allowing the virus to simmer at fairly high levels throughout the summer, particularly among young people who congregated in bars and restaurants against expert advice.
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ABC News
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Public health may be US election loser as coronavirus surges
Donald Trump’s current term doesn’t end until Jan. 20. In the 86 days until then, 100,000 more Americans will likely die from the virus if the president doesn’t shift course, said Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, echoing estimates from other public health experts.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Is It a Cold, the Flu or COVID-19?
It’s also especially important to get a flu shot this year, according to Dr. Sadiya Khan, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “By getting a flu vaccine, you not only protect yourself, you boost your own immune system and protect others from the flu as well as a more severe illness if you were to contract both influenza and COVID-19,” Khan said in a university news release
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Yahoo! News
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COVID-19 cases in kids are at their highest since pandemic began, report says
Bessey Geevarghese, a pediatric infectious disease physician for Lurie Children’s at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, tells Yahoo Life that the numbers are reflective of what’s happening in communities as a whole. “Levels are much higher [in children] since overall cases are going up,” she says. “Children are most likely to get COVID-19 from household contacts.”
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WTTW News
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Stressed Out? How to Cope With Election Anxiety and Uncertainty
Many people are experiencing fear and trepidation around the 2020 election. That state of heightened stress and anxiety has a name that was coined after the 2016 election. Clinicians call it election stress disorder. “Of course, that’s not a clinical diagnosis, but really a term that’s being used just to capture what we’re seeing right now,” said Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Fox 32
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Shorter days mean more grappling with Seasonal Affective Disorder
[VIDEO] Dr. Dan Doebler, a licensed clinical professional counselor, talks about ways to fight against Seasonal Affective Disorder this winter.
