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Amid renewed national attention on postpartum mental health following recent news involving actress Hayden Panettiere and the ongoing Lindsay Clancy case, Northwestern University maternal depression expert Darius Tandon is available for interviews with the media.
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Today ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), accusing the federal agency of infringing on its First Amendment rights after it threatened to strip ABC stations of their broadcast licenses earlier this year.
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Despite challenges, Ukraine maintained a self-sufficient blood supply amid a 40% surge in demand for blood for its civilians and military personnel at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.

The Garage, Northwestern’s student startup incubator, has been named the No. 1 university incubator and No. 5 overall by Time magazine on its inaugural America’s Best Incubators & Accelerators list.

Parent-infant interactions, often characterized by direct eye contact and ‘proto’ conversations, have long been thought to be the key to infants sense of their own ‘agency’: how infants begin to understand the intentions of people around them, and to influence them. Extraordinary new research published in the July/August issue of the journal Infancy reveals how mothers from two distinct communities foster infants’ sense of agency.

Northwestern University recently awarded more than $2.1 million through the Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund to advance eight biomedical research projects with strong translational potential.

After colliding with gas, stellar fragments remain intact for just 10,000 years, the team estimates.

A unique collaboration among Northwestern physician-scientists and basic researchers, including Francesca Duncan, Kara Goldman and Elnur Babayev, is bringing those perspectives together to study the ovary more wholistically.

Team expects future telescopes will find many more stellar streams, expanding the ability to probe dark matter across the universe.

A new study from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management found that research proposals showing stronger signs of AI-assisted writing were four percentage points more likely to receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).