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Cancer patients should be prioritized to receive the COVID vaccine, as studies have shown some subsets of cancer patients have higher morbidity and mortality from COVID, said Dr. Leonidas Platanias.
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Black men die more often of prostate cancer yet, paradoxically, have greater survival benefits from immunotherapy treatment. A new Northwestern Medicine study discovered the reason appears to be an increase of a surprising type of immune cell in the tumor.

A new anti-obesity medication was shown to be almost twice as effective at helping individuals lose weight than some of the current weight loss drugs on the market, a new study found.

Two-thirds of respondents (67%), whether students or parents, say they are concerned about the quality of K–12 learning during the pandemic, according to a new national survey of more than 25,000 people by Northwestern, Northeastern, Rutgers and Harvard universities. The finding holds across respondents from different racial backgrounds, incomes and political affiliations.

Sarah Ahmad has always been interested in entrepreneurship. But during the summer before her senior year, she had a difficult decision to make: take the prestigious internship she was offered that would pay well and look good on her resume, or spend the summer working on her startup?

The School of Communication at Northwestern University will host a virtual residency with Hope Abelson Artist-in-Residence Michael R. Jackson Feb. 15 to March 5.

Amid the protests and turbulence of 2020, Americans set a new record for gun purchases, with the FBI tallying a new high of 21 million background checks over the year. That was an increase of 26% over the 2016 record of 15.7 million.

Senate Republicans unlikely to convict former President Trump
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A new Northwestern Medicine study used brain stimulation to improve memory of complex, realistic events and proved it is possible to measure and manipulate realistic types of memory.

In the current paper, Northwestern Medicine researchers found that participants who had been victimized by a weapon as adolescents were between two and three times more likely to perpetuate firearm violence as adults. They also found those with access to a firearm during adolescence were far more likely to perpetuate firearm violence as an adult.