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Health officials are sounding the alarm as cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, surge across the nation. It is important to remember whooping cough is not only a pediatric disease, says Northwestern University pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Tina Tan.
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President Biden will deliver remarks in Arizona today apologizing for the federal government’s role in forcing Indigenous children into boarding schools, where many were abused and nearly 1,000 died. Doug Kiel (citizen of Oneida Nation), an associate professor of history and a faculty fellow at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University, is available for media interviews on this historic event.

For the first time, scientists have found individuals in Nigeria are experiencing neurological manifestations of long COVID — called neuro-long COVID — such as brain fog, mild cognitive impairment, fatigue, sleep problems, headache, sensations of pins and needles, and muscle pain.

To date, the effectiveness of an at-home method for lucid dreaming that combine pre-sleep training with sensory cues has not been systematically tested. A new study by neuroscientists at Northwestern University is the first to provide evidence that this method, known as targeted lucidity reactivation (TLR), can be successful with minimal technical requirements. Adapting the TLR method previously used in Ken Paller’s sleep lab at Northwestern, the team conducted research using a smartphone app that links sensory stimulation with a lucid state of mind.

After only one to three days of a whiplash injury, scientists can predict which patients will develop chronic pain based on the extent of cross ‘talk’ between two regions of the brain, and the person’s anxiety level after the injury, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.

The number of local news deserts expanded in the U.S. this year with 127 newspapers shuttering, leaving nearly 55 million Americans with limited to no access to local news, according to the Medill State of Local News Report 2024 released today.

A new Northwestern Medicine study has demonstrated a new way to treat narcolepsy-related nightmares. The scientists combined cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and lucid dreaming to help patients in a small clinical trial.

“A Concert for Hope” to be held on Sunday, Oct. 27 at Alice Millar Chapel in Evanston addresses the urgent issue of gun violence and aims to create space both to mourn victims and to inspire hope for a better, safer future. The program includes Stacy Garrop’s “Repair the World,” a piece commissioned for the one-year anniversary of the Highland Park Fourth of July mass shooting.

Please join professor Tim Franklin, director of the Medill Local News Initiative and John M. Mutz Chair in Local News at Northwestern University, Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. (CDT) for a virtual briefing about the yet-to-be-released findings of the 2024 State of Local News report.
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Scientists at Northwestern Medicine and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have discovered an RNA that acts like the brake in one’s car to control how much or how little protein is produced by a gene.