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Emergency visits by children with suicide-related crises increased by 74% between 2016 and 2022, according to a new study from scientists at Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University presents “Picturing the Modern Metropolis: Prints and Photographs from The Block’s Collection,” on view Wednesday, Sept. 9 through Sunday, Dec. 6. Bringing together more than 100 works focused primarily on the 20th century, the exhibition examines how artists pictured the scale, speed, diversity and shared public life of the growing American city. The exhibition includes works by internationally renowned artists Christo, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol and celebrated photographers Edward Steichen, W. Eugene Smith, Vivian Meier and Brett Weston among many others.

Dark matter experiment detected a single particle event that known background sources struggle to explain.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Northwestern University $30 million over five years to establish a new center aimed at uncovering a hidden layer of information within the human genome.

A Northwestern Medicine oncologist is available for print and broadcast interviews to comment on the FDA approval today of a new “breakthrough” drug for advanced pancreatic cancer. Dr. Devalingam Mahalingam said the approval of the drug, daraxonrasib, marks “one of the most significant advances in pancreatic cancer treatment in more than a decade.”
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Today social media giant Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion to resolve allegations from nearly every state that the tech company purposely engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and unlawfully gathered personal information from minors.
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As national MMR vaccination rates among kindergarteners continue to decline, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, the U.S. has recorded its first adult measles-related deaths of 2026 in Pennsylvania. Northwestern University pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Tina Tan is available for media interviews.
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Loneliness can reprogram the brain in ways that push alcohol consumption, reports a new preclinical study led by Northwestern University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The scientists identified, for the first time, a brain mechanism through which isolation escalates alcohol use in male mice but suppresses it in females.

It’s an increasingly popular scan that measures calcium in the heart’s arteries and helps predict risk of future heart disease. But according to a new Northwestern Medicine study, the quick and inexpensive test — known as a coronary artery calcium scan — may be most valuable only for a specific group of patients.

When temperatures spike, emergency physicians expect to see more cases of dehydration and heat stroke. But a new Northwestern University study suggests that extreme heat also is linked to a much wider range of health problems seen in emergency departments and urgent care clinics, including skin conditions, multiple sclerosis and even injuries from traffic accidents.