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Florida recently became the second state to sign into law a ban on fluoride in public water systems, joining a wave of local and statewide efforts to restrict community fluoridation. The policy takes effect in July 2025. Meanwhile, FDA announced last week plans to remove ingestible fluoride supplements for children from the market.
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Northwestern University has received a generous gift from an anonymous donor to support the Jewish studies program and enhance activities for Jewish student life. The gift will enable the University to increase its undergraduate course offerings and to bolster activities coordinated by Northwestern Hillel.

Northwestern University bioelectronics pioneer John A. Rogers has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of science and one of the most prestigious academies in Europe.

Northwestern University is launching the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being, an interdisciplinary initiative to research issues related to the psychology and mental health of young adults and leverage its findings to benefit Northwestern students. The institute is made possible by a $25 million gift from an anonymous donor.

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in the Trump administration’s efforts to implement the president’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The primary issue before the Court is whether lower-court judges can issue universal injunctions to block an order nationwide.
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During the first half of the 20th century, many states passed labor laws in response to the influx of women into the modern workplace. The so-called protective labor laws enacted by U.S. states restricted women’s economic opportunities through maximum hours restrictions, minimum wage laws and nightshift bans until the civil rights reforms of the 1960s ended these laws on the basis of gender discrimination. New research led by economist Matthias Doepke at Northwestern University seeks to understand why these laws were introduced in the U.S. during this period, and what led to their overturning decades later.

Experiencing food insecurity in early childhood is associated with worse heart health two decades later, especially higher BMI. But participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) significantly mitigates that risk, reports a long-term Northwestern Medicine study published today, May 14, in JAMA Cardiology.

In many neurodegenerative diseases, proteins misfold and clump together around brain cells, which ultimately leads to cell death. The innovative new treatment effectively traps the proteins before they can aggregate into the toxic structures capable of penetrating neurons. The trapped proteins then harmlessly degrade in the body. The “clean-up” strategy significantly boosted the survival of lab-grown human neurons under stress from disease-causing proteins.

To take the guesswork out of breastfeeding, an interdisciplinary team of engineers, neonatologists and pediatricians at Northwestern University has developed a new wearable device that can provide clinical-grade, continuous monitoring of breast milk consumption.

Innovation in sustainability and energy is at the core of the Industry Affiliates Program (IAP) announced today by the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University.