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Individuals born in the U.S. had an overall higher rate (9.7%) of giving birth prematurely compared to U.S. immigrants (9%), a new Northwestern Medicine study has found.

“We need to think really carefully about the effect of these new technologies on people and communities, and to tune in to what they think about these changes,” Stathopoulos, the study’s senior author, said.

A new social awareness and community mobilization campaign called “PrEP4Teens,” a collaboration led by scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and community leaders in sexual health and youth engagement, will launch on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at TaskForce Prevention and Community Services in Austin.
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With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, Northwestern University researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

For the first time in 10 years, the American Heart Association (AHA) has updated the model to predict someone’s risk of developing heart disease, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published today (Nov. 10) in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation.

Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat.

Funded by DARPA, researchers have developed a novel device that produces oxygen inside a "living pharmacy" implant in order to keep cells alive inside the self-contained device. The longer cells can stay alive and healthy, the longer they can autonomously produce therapeutics for the body.

Northwestern University medical and health economist experts are available to speak to media in response to today’s news that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly and Company’s obesity-management drug tirzepatide (sold as Zepbound).
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Ohioans today have voted on abortion access. Issue 1, the ballot measure that would establish a right to abortion in the state constitution, has become viewed as a “political football” instead of the human rights issue it is, said Northwestern University medical ethicist Katie Watson.

In the United States, premature death associated with exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution — a toxic gas emitted primarily by burning fossil fuels in cars, trucks and power plants — is more likely to impact people of color compared to the white population, a new Northwestern University study has found.