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Music helps patients with dementia connect with loved ones

August 29, 2022 – from Northwestern Now
People with dementia or Alzheimer's disease often lose their ability to communicate verbally with loved ones. But a Northwestern Medicine study shows how that gap can be bridged with a new music intervention. In it, a live ensemble plays music from a patient’s youth that creates an emotional connection between a patient and their caregiver by allowing them to interact with the music together via singing, dancing and playing simple instruments.
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Can Apple Watch reduce patients’ reliance on blood thinners?

August 29, 2022
Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University have been awarded a multi-million-dollar grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study a strategy to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common heart rhythm disorder in adults. The trial will incorporate the use of an app on Apple Watch to monitor AFib to attempt to reduce patients’ continuous and lifelong reliance on blood-thinning medication.
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Northwestern receives $10 million for new national energy research center

August 25, 2022
Northwestern University has received $10.35 million over four years from the Department of Energy (DOE) to lead an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) focused on developing hydrogen-based energy technologies, an increasingly important need in the face of climate change.
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Diabetes drug metformin shows potential benefit in large COVID-19 trial

August 19, 2022
Metformin, a common, safe and inexpensive drug for type 2 diabetes, lowers the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalizations or death due to COVID-19 by over 40%; and over 50% if prescribed early in onset of symptoms, according to a new multi-site clinical trial led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and School of Public Health. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine was one site in the trial.
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COVID-19 test-to-stay programs work

August 18, 2022
Test-to-stay programs in pre-K-8 schools minimize new COVID-19 infections and can help reduce the need for prolonged quarantines for exposed individuals, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.