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A new study conducted by scientists at Northwestern University found that among PrEP users, many fear using PrEP puts them at risk of discrimination, even when they know other people who use the medication.

CHICAGO --- The Democratic National Convention will culminate a week from today in Chicago with Vice President Kamala Harris accepting the party’s nomination and giving what may be the most important speech of her political career. Black women will be listening closely.
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Northwestern University professors in the fields of political science, communication and history are available to provide analysis and commentary leading up to and during the Democratic National Convention, beginning Monday, Aug. 19 in Chicago.
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Scientists at Northwestern Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago found that in Illinois, youth emergency room visits and hospitalizations for depression and anxiety decreased after the COVID-19 shutdown and have plateaued at lower, pre-2016 rates.

Northwestern University scientists have developed a new bioactive material that successfully regenerated high-quality cartilage in the knee joints of a large-animal model.

CHICAGO --- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law has received nearly $5 million in gifts to expand the Carter G. Phillips Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Center’s programs. The funds will be used for Supreme Court programming and related events across the Law School, as well as the Center’s two clinics: the newly named Carter G. Phillips/Sidley Austin LLP Supreme Court Clinic, where students work under the direction of faculty members who have collectively argued nearly 100 cases before the Supreme Court; and the Federal Appellate Clinic, in which students research, brief and argue cases in federal appellate courts across the country.

Researchers found the Venezuelan crisis has significantly — and negatively — affected country's Internet infrastructure and connectivity. Compared to the average Internet service in peer Latin American countries, Venezuelan Internet speeds are excruciatingly slow, and network growth is stagnant.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $3.3 million over five years to Northwestern University to study the implementation of an evidence-based secure firearm storage program. The study will focus on community health centers, which serve individuals who have limited access to health care and those who often experience health inequities. Parents at these health centers will receive counseling around secure firearm storage and free cable locks.

Researchers applied dancing molecules therapy to damaged human cartilage cells.

Northwestern University biologists have pinpointed when the gene network that regulates these stem cells may have evolved and gained insights into what might be responsible for lampreys’ missing mandibles.