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.
-
The New York Times
–
The coronavirus invades cells in the penis and testicles of monkeys, researchers discover.
“The signal that jumped out at us was the complete spread through the male genital tract,” said Thomas Hope, the paper’s senior author and a professor of cell and developmental biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “We had no idea we would find it there.”
-
Reuters
–
Texas investigating parents of transgender youth for child abuse
Brian Mustanski, director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University School of Medicine, said that “contrary to what Governor Abbott claims, gender-affirming care for transgender people saves lives” by reducing the risks of depression and suicide.
-
NBC News (National)
–
While straight men face educational crisis, gay men excel academically, study finds
Brian Mustanski, a professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University, cautioned that the relative success of gay men could amount to a double-edged sword.
-
CNN
–
Dementia linked to premature menopause for women, study says
“What we see in this study is a modest association between premature menopause and a subsequent risk for dementia,” said Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, president of the American Heart Association. He was not involved in the study.
-
NBC News (National)
–
New York City to lift vaccination mandate for businesses, events
“This seems like a move to promote normalcy without there really being normalcy,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “Vaccine mandates are safe and effective public health strategies, and backing down on this is likely to worsen spread.”
-
Houston Chronicle
–
Pregnancy-related deaths climbed in pandemic’s first year
Dr. Janelle Bolden, an assistant OB-GYN professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said the report is not surprising.
-
WebMD
–
Sudden Reaction to a Food? It Could Be Adult-Onset Allergy
“There’s so many food conditions, and it’s so important to really understand what you have because you want to know how to manage it, and some of them actually have treatments,” said Dr. Ruchi Gupta, director of the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma, part of Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
-
The New York Times
–
An Essayist Navigates the Labyrinth of American Health Care. Barely.
Northwestern Medicine is part of a program that uses an installation of Epic that depression screens everyone
-
The Washington Post
–
The Hard Lessons We Learned — and Didn’t — From Two Years in Pandemic School
“No one is ever congratulated when the steps we took prevented something,” Mercedes Carnethon, an epidemiologist and professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, told me. “People say, ‘I did something for nothing. It never happened.’ ”
-
Yahoo! News
–
Over 65? Here’s What to Quit Doing Now
Being over 65 means putting extra focus on your health, including cutting out bad habits. Dorothy Dunlop, professor of medicine at Feinberg School of Medicine shares that older adults should be as active as possible. She encourages adults over age 60 to find opportunities to replace sitting time with light activity.
