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New implantable sensor measures strain to detect bladder filling. Implant continuously streams data to smartphone, so users and their physicians can monitor filling/emptying in real time.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will host a World Water Day livestream featuring anthropologist and global health researcher Sera Young of Northwestern University and CSIS Global Food and Water Security Program experts.

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Mining billions of words online, a new Northwestern University study of intersectionality has found a cavernous divide between the visibility of white men and the invisibility of Black women, which is likely to produce bias in artificial intelligence.

President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order to expand and improve how the U.S. federal government funds health research about women, who historically have been and currently still are underrepresented in medical research.
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The U.S. maternal mortality rate is accelerating at an alarming rate, reports a new study from Northwestern Medicine. But it’s not due to the widely believed hypothesis that maternal mortality in the U.S. has increased largely because people are getting pregnant at older ages.

Findings of a new study led by researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Cincinnati could help public health officials lead more effective vaccination campaigns that overcome hesitancy.

A team of Northwestern University scientists has developed the first wireless, implantable temperature sensor to detect inflammatory flareups in patients with Crohn’s disease. The approach offers long-term, real-time monitoring and could enable clinicians to act earlier to prevent or limit the permanent damage caused by inflammatory episodes.

Advisors, students and families gathered this morning in the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center in Chicago to count down to the official letter-opening.
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Northwestern University Dance Marathon returns March 29 to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The event is the culmination of a yearlong fundraising effort to support Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana and the Evanston Community Foundation.

Deborah Cohen, the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been named executive director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.