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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Ravi Fernando, a respiratory therapist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, receives one dose of the vaccine. For Fernando and other healthcare professionals, the vaccine has provided a morale boost.

For Northwestern Memorial Hospital workers on the front lines, vaccine brings morale boost, continued resolve

January 20, 2021

When Nancy Foster, a nurse manager for one of Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 units, received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 18, a familiar face administered...

Most students, whether they’re living in Evanston or not, will face darker and colder days over the next few months. This winter will be particularly difficult, as seasonal affective disorder compounds the stress of online learning and the pandemic.

Seasonal affective disorder threatens students’ already eroding mental health

November 5, 2020

As a quarter of mostly remote learning meets shorter days and colder temperatures, some students are struggling with the onset of seasonal affective disorder. Communication sophomore Marisa Gudino moved...

Northwestern doctors face challenges in psychiatric care, anticipate mental health crisis ahead

Northwestern doctors face challenges in psychiatric care, anticipate mental health crisis ahead

May 17, 2020

The United Nations warned of an emerging mental health crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in a Thursday report. It cites higher levels of depression and anxiety globally, which may be exacerbated...

With no playbook and a finite supply, Evanston health workers must gear up for the long haul

With no playbook and a finite supply, Evanston health workers must gear up for the long haul

April 25, 2020

In the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, emergency medicine physician Michael Slater consulted with the AMITA Health Saint Francis Hospital Evanston ethics team to consider how to ration supplies...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Many of Northwestern Medicine's healthcare workers — technicians, nurse practitioners, physicians — have seen their personal and work lives upended by the pandemic in different ways.

Northwestern doctors upend family life to fight at frontlines, NM builds capacity for peak

April 17, 2020

After a shift in the emergency room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, resident Vidya Eswaran makes sure that someone else watches her while she removes her protective equipment. That’s the time when...

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