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A new Northwestern Medicine study has found almost half of U.S. adults with heart failure have poorly controlled hypertension and diabetes—two common conditions among patients with heart failure.

There are five different diseases that attack the language areas in the left hemisphere of the brain that slowly cause progressive impairments of language known as primary progressive aphasia, reports a new study.

Michael Loriaux said voters were so repelled by the prospect of “quasi-fascist” Marine Le Pen winning the presidency that they handed the keys of the Elysée to a technocratic, somewhat-unpopular incumbent.
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Compass Transportation, which provides local transit to Head Start, received part of a $4.2 million grant from Pritzker as the result of a proposal generated by student sustainability fellows.

According to a new astrophysical model, fast blue optical transients might result from the actively cooling cocoons that surround jets launched from dying stars.

The engineering professors are available to speak on impacts of oil spills and forms of “silent pollution,” scaling environmental efforts and their sponge-based platform.

Faculty clarinetist Steven Cohen and hornist Gail Williams will perform a final recital together May 10 before they retire from Northwestern University, culminating a combined 50 years of service.

Northwestern is launching a unique community-based theater arts partnership with Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Imagine U. The partnership, Learn and Imagine Together Through Theater (LITTT), begins in the 2022-2023 academic year.

Since the '80s, Dr. Marsel Mesulam was pioneering a new field of research on the neurological condition: primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare syndrome that destroys a person’s language.

A new protein-based antiviral nasal spray is being advanced to Phase I human clinical trials to treat COVID-19. It works by blocking the spike protein's ability to infect cells.