The COVID-19 virus spreads via mucus once inside an infected airway, allowing it to reach into the lower lungs, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications.

While symptoms of the flu and COVID are similar, the viruses that cause each illness are different. New tests this winter ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising silver lining of COVID-19 infection. A new study by researchers at Northwestern ...

Researchers have discovered that the Covid-19 virus may hold unexpected benefits for cancer treatment. The virus triggers the ...

Former CDC Dir. Robert Redfield expressed his view that COVID-19 originated in North Carolina as part of a "biodefense program." ...

Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya spoke at a lecture on free speech and science, focusing on the insights learned from the ...

Bhattacharya had found fault with the NIH well before the pandemic. He co-authored a working paper in 2018 that said the agency’s “propensity to fund projects that build on the most recent advances ...

Planning to gather for Thanksgiving with family and friends? Both the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions are playing that day, so there’s an extra incentive to settle down with a crowd post-meal to ...

Robert Redfield has been a proponent of the 'lab leak' theory which posits the disease came from the Wuhan Institute of ...

The Stanford physician was excoriated by NIH’s director in 2020 for his “fringe” ideas on covid. Four years later, he’s poised for power in Trump’s Washington.

If you missed the early fall push for flu and COVID-19 vaccines, it’s not too late. Health officials say it’s important to ...

So, researchers at Northwestern started their journey to figure out why this might be happening. They discovered when someone ...