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Northwestern Law professor’s policy brief to be launched by Director-General of the World Health Organization on July 21
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A Northwestern study finds parents are drastically reducing work during covid, which could have long-term effects on their careers.

Confronted with legal challenges by colleges and universities, including Northwestern, as well as by 18 state attorneys general around the country, the federal government withdrew a directive that threatened to deport international students who don’t attend in-person classes this fall.

Known as SGRB181123B, the burst occurred just 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. It is the second most-distant well-established SGRB ever detected and the most distant event with an optical afterglow.

Experts talk about the realities of social distancing in schools as President Trump and the Centers for Disease Control spar over guidelines for reopening and what measures schools should consider to limit the spread of Covid-19.
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A new Northwestern Medicine remote weight-loss program provides maximum weight loss for the lowest cost for people with obesity and does so with much less hassle than the gold-standard National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP).

Burrell serving life sentence for 2002 death of Minneapolis resident 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards

Northwestern is participating in a lawsuit filed today by the Illinois attorney general and attorneys general from 17 other states alleging that the new guidance from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is harmful to both international students and to the American universities that enroll them.

New immunotherapy comprises two immunity-boosting drugs housed inside a spherical nanoparticle, which can more easily enter and stimulate the immune system to fight off cancer.

Faster results from COVID-19 tests could save hundreds of lives in Illinois and likely thousands of lives nationally, said a Northwestern Medicine disease modeling expert.
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