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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Chicago Tribune
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‘It’s important for everyone:’ Park Ridge and Niles parents share why they are vaccinating their children against COVID-19
For Dr. Marc Sala and his wife, Dr. Joanne Claveria, of Park Ridge, making an appointment for their 5-year-old son’s COVID-19 vaccine was a “cut and dry decision.” “As doctors, we have seen a lot of the fallout of COVID for children,” said Sala, a pulmonologist who practices at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Chicago Tonight
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Pfizer Says COVID-19 Pill Cut Hospital, Death Risk by 90%
Dr. Irfan Hafiz, an infectious disease specialist and chief medical officer of Northwestern Medicine’s McHenry, Huntley and Woodstock hospitals, discusses both Pfizer and Merck’s pills to treat COVID-19 and more.
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HealthDay
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Another Study Suggests Too Much Fish Oil Could Trigger A-Fib
Specifically, people should strive for two weekly servings of fatty fish like salmon, trout or albacore tuna, said Van Horn, who is also a professor of nutrition at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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National Public Radio
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Some parents want to wait to vaccinate their kids. Here’s why doctors say do it now
“You can’t wait until millions and millions of doses are given before you decide, because this virus is going to take every opportunity it can to infect someone,” says Dr. Tina Tan, pediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Northwestern and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern Investigates Gene Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
A gene therapy that targets dopamine-releasing neurons substantially boosts the effectiveness of Parkinson’s disease drug levodopa in a preclinical study, Northwestern Medicine researchers said in a statement.
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Fox 32
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New Northwestern study on baldness provides new insight into root causes of hair loss
Rui Yi from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine explains how their new study is shedding light on primary causes of hair loss and balding.
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Hypertension
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In Memoriam | Tribute to Lewis Landsberg: A Giant of Academic Medicine
On a late September evening of 2021, the world lost one of the last giants of Medicine. Dr Lewis Landsberg passed in Cape Cod, where he loved to spend part of the summers with his beloved wife Jill and visiting family and friends.
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MSN
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How to Find Relief If Your Muscles Are Sore After a Workout
However, doing some light activity is fine (and encouraged, for reasons we’ll explain below), as long as it doesn’t feel painful. The key here is to do a different exercise (and work a different set of muscles) than the one that initially made your muscles sore, Kevin M. Pennington, A.T.C., manager at Northwestern Medicine Athletic Training & Sports Performance Clinic, tells SELF.
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The Washington Post
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Some parents were eager to get the coronavirus vaccine. Now they are wavering on vaccinating their kids.
“Even if you got the vaccine for yourself, I think feeling that nervousness about getting it for your child is very normal,” said Jennifer Kusma, an instructor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
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NBC News
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Many Covid patients have memory problems months later, new study finds
Other hospitals are seeing similar complications. At Northwestern Medical Center, some Covid patients ended up with such severe cognitive deficits that they could not care for themselves after being discharged, neurologist Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of the division of neuro-infectious disease and global neurology, told NBC News.
