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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flu cases tend to spike after the first week of November, according to the CDC. And with Thanksgiving right around the corner ...

"Jackson County Executive Frank White has vetoed an ordinance from the county legislature that would decide how the county ...