One of the most challenging aspects of treating patients with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’€™s disease, is figuring out whether the treatments are working at all. That’s because patients are often too weak to endure the strength and breathing tests that measure the deterioration of their muscle function.

Grandparents struggling to support their grandchildren. Disabled seniors failing to pay the bills.

When allegations of sex abuse at Syracuse followed so closely behind the scandal at Penn State, many couldn’t help but wonder: How often is this kind of horror taking place?

Many Bostonians bemoan the downtown pit where Filene’s department store used to stand, but one local educator and his students decided to do something about it.

Originally a commuter school, Northeastern University has evolved since its founding in 1898 into one of the most-applied-to private universities in the U.S. thanks to its expanding research, global opportunities, famous co-op program, and undefeated football team.

LIKE so many college students these days, Margaux Malyshev was desperate for cash.

In a throwback to an earlier era, hundreds of people attended a teach-in earlier this month at Northeastern University -€” a day of workshops about economic inequality. The event highlighted the role that academic centers have long played in protest movements; it’€™s no coincidence that, in the 1960s, the Boston area and Berkeley, Calif., were […]

The Italian scientist who says he has developed the world’€™s first cold fusion reactor – a claim that has been hotly contested in scientific circles – visited the State House last week to explore the prospects for developing and manufacturing the device in Massachusetts.

One estimate pegged Massachusetts’ transportation funding shortfall over the next two decades at almost $20 billion – and that was just to maintain the assets we already have. There are legitimate debates to be had over whether that estimate is accurate, but few would argue that our transportation needs far outpace available funding.

Law school is notorious in academia for housing type-A-personality students, interested only in a fast track to partnership and the fat pay cheque that comes with it. But this is not the case at Northeastern University School of Law. The school, located in Boston’€™s Fenway neighbourhood, prides itself on collegial students who take seriously its […]

One of the oldest axioms in politics is that you should never let a good crisis go to waste. Now that the hopelessly divided deficit reduction super committee has failed, it is apparent to just about everyone that Washington has a serious crisis of governance.

A 14-year-old boy who was shot by his mother in North Carolina has died, authorities said Tuesday, the fourth victim of a shooting rampage over the weekend.