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Heading into Lollapalooza weekend in Chicago, infectious disease experts are bracing themselves for a spike in COVID-19 infections they anticipate will hit the week after next.
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Northwestern University experts discuss the culture shifts around mental health issues being led by courageous athletes as well as the power of anxiety on athletes’ and anyone’s ability to perform at their peak.

Facebook likely plays role in COVID-19 misinformation, affecting vaccination rates

Black female in the Olympics are under extra pressure to perform and not let the Black community down, says Northwestern Medicine psychologist and book author Inger Burnett-Zeigler.

There’s growing recognition that dads struggle with postpartum stress, anxiety and depression. A new pilot study is one of the first of its kind to test an intervention designed to help dads better adjust to the sleep-deprived and sometimes rocky period before and after a baby is born.

Northwestern Medicine experts explain why the number of breakthrough infections from the Delta variant are going up, who is at risk and why you may need to take extra precautions depending on your age.

In the first wealth and longevity study to incorporate siblings and twin pair data, researchers from Northwestern University analyzed the midlife net worth of adults (mean age 46.7 years) and their mortality rates 24 years later. They discovered those with greater wealth at midlife tended to live longer.

A new COVID-States report finds overall, Americans are more inclined toward vaccinating their children than they were in winter and spring. However, the trend has been uneven across age and gender. Resistance remains highest among mothers of young children, which could impede vaccination progress once the vaccine is available to younger children.

A new Northwestern Medicine study shows coffee consumption and eating lots of vegetables may offer some protection against COVID-19.

A woman’s heart health before she becomes pregnant is strongly related to her likelihood of experiencing a complication during her pregnancy or labor, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.