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A new Northwestern study found popular hypertension drugs used to treat patients with hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetic kidney disease does not increase the risk of COVID-19.

John Lewis, who passed away on Friday at the age of 80, is remembered by Northwestern professors in history, political science and sociology.
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Patients who died from COVID in 2020 were almost 12 times more likely to die in a medical facility than patients who died from any cause in 2018, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

Stories and music drawn from children’s books by Ogden Nash, Roald Dahl and Kevin Henkes are included in the latest round of “Imagine U Storytime” videos on the Wirtz Center YouTube channel.

The peer-reviewed data from the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial, published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine, did not analyze the data by sex, says an expert on women in biomedical research.
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Northwestern Law professor’s policy brief to be launched by Director-General of the World Health Organization on July 21
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A Northwestern study finds parents are drastically reducing work during covid, which could have long-term effects on their careers.

Confronted with legal challenges by colleges and universities, including Northwestern, as well as by 18 state attorneys general around the country, the federal government withdrew a directive that threatened to deport international students who don’t attend in-person classes this fall.

Known as SGRB181123B, the burst occurred just 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. It is the second most-distant well-established SGRB ever detected and the most distant event with an optical afterglow.

Experts talk about the realities of social distancing in schools as President Trump and the Centers for Disease Control spar over guidelines for reopening and what measures schools should consider to limit the spread of Covid-19.
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