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A new Northwestern Medicine study that cross-analyzed 20,020 U.S. clinical trials between 2000-2020 found women and men are underrepresented in clinical trials of different medical fields.

Ahead of a celebratory Father’s Day weekend that typically sees a spike in shootings in Chicago, Northwestern University researchers weigh in on the national pandemic of gun violence and policies and practices for interrupting the cycle.
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An experimental web-based production allows audiences to pick an avatar and the version of the show they want to ‘play.’ Reactivated June 18 to 30 on a reimagined web-based platform, “[re:CLICK] 2.0” is a streaming performance featuring a cast from both universities, four time zones and three countries.

While using a COVID modeling-based alert system, the Austin metropolitan area has sustained the lowest per capita COVID-19 death rate among all large Texas cities.

Cognitive psychologist Sandra Waxman, research specialist Kali Woodruff Carr and their colleagues identified developmental changes in 4- and 6-month-old infants’ neural responses to human speech and lemur calls, providing new insight into how the link to cognition becomes so rapidly attuned to human speech.

A new study from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University found that significant media attention to the appointment of a female CEO in a U.S. publicly traded firm causes its stock to drop by 2 to 3% after the announcement, but the researchers said that this short-term market reaction reverses course over time.

U.S. Supreme Court today in California v. Texas dismissed a third challenge to the Affordable Care Act in a 7-2 ruling
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A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the hippocampus plays a role in short-term memory and helps guide decision-making. The findings could lead to therapies that restore hippocampal function.

Northwestern University’s Puerto Rican Arts Initiative (PRAI) is tackling environmental politics, rights to the city, and community affects and infrastructures in its exciting second phase, which kicked off in spring 2021.
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As the pandemic begins to taper off and the country opens up after a year and a half of restrictions, a surprising downside has emerged: an increase in violence and aggressive behavior. Why are people so angry when the end of the pandemic should be a happy time? Northwestern Medicine psychiatrists and mental health experts explain why this is happening and how to care for yourself through this stressful transition.