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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The Washington Post
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Changing recommendations for boosters lead to confusion for the vaccinated and their doctors
“It’s a communications crisis,” said Robert Murphy, executive director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who said he received worried calls Thursday evening from health-care workers who thought they would not be eligible for the shots, followed by messages Friday from colleagues wondering when and where to get them.
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Chicago Tribune
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Childhood COVID-19 cases fall for second week, as experts say student quarantines, testing are curbing virus spread
“It is certainly frustrating and disruptive to children’s education and their families when students have to quarantine. However, quarantining is one of the non-pharmacologic interventions that we can use to stop the spread of any infectious disease,” said Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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HealthDay
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AHA News: Clot-Removing Procedure Appears Safe for Pregnant Stroke Patients
Dr. Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, said the study shows the importance of research about pregnant and postpartum women.
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Los Angeles Times
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What is the C.1.2 coronavirus variant – and should we be worried?
Will the United States be next? Should we be worried? To find out, we talked with Dr. Stuart Ray, an immunologist and infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo”, a molecular virologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Healthline
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People With No Known Heart Disease Can Still Have Fatty Deposits in Blood Vessels
Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, the chair of the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Illinois and the president of the American Heart Association, told Healthline that the research is important because it looks at the general population rather than just people with known risk of heart disease.
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Los Angeles Times
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Big gap between Pfizer, Moderna vaccines seen for preventing COVID hospitalizations
Dr. Robert Murphy, who directs Northwestern University’s Institute for Global Health, said the Pfizer vaccine’s reduced protection against severe disease may bolster the case for boosters for all who got the vaccine, not just the specific groups identified by the FDA advisory panel.
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ABC News
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Few people medically exempt from getting COVID-19 vaccine: Experts
Dr. Jeff Linder, the chief of general internal medicine and geriatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told ABC News that research so far shows that those who have a severe allergic reaction are likely triggered by polyethylene glycol (PEG), a component in the vaccines.
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HealthDay
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Black, Hispanic Adults Diagnosed With Diabetes at Earlier Age
Michael C. Wang, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues pooled data for two-year cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2011 through 2018) to compare self-reported age at diabetes diagnosis by race/ethnicity among 3,022 U.S. adults.
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The New York Times
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Pioneering Gene Therapy Freed Her of Sickle Cell. Is a Cure at Hand?
In January, his doctor, Alexis Thompson of Northwestern University, told him he no longer had sickle cell disease. It is strange, Mr. Hubbard said, to think he has a future. “I am becoming more serious about life,” he said. “I didn’t think I would have a life.”
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Yahoo! News
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These Two Things Increase Your Risk of an Early Death, Says Study
“If you don’t have diabetes, your sleep disturbances are still associated with an increased risk of dying, but it’s higher for those with diabetes,” corresponding study author Kristen Knutson, associate professor of neurology and preventive medicine at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, explained in a press release.
