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Maintaining Low Blood Pressure in Middle Age Helps Prevent Heart Attack, Stroke
A hike in your blood pressure during middle age significantly raises the risk of having a heart attack or a stroke during your lifetime, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.
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Northwestern Receives $10 Million Gift for Life Sciences Graduates
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has received a $10 million gift from the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Foundation to endow and name the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences. The gift will support graduate student training in the life sciences at Feinberg with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis…
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Discovery May Lead to Therapy for Eye Diseases Causing Blindness
A new Northwestern Medicine study has identified a gene that plays a major role in maintaining clarity of the cornea in humans and mice – and could possibly be used as gene therapy to treat diseases that cause blindness.