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A new Northwestern Medicine study may better inform doctors’ decisions about which brain areas to preserve during brain surgery on people with brain tumors or epilepsy, thereby improving patients’ language function after brain surgery.

For the second U.S. presidential election in a row, a Northwestern University data scientist is running a novel forecasting platform, which updates the odds of a win by former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris each day.

Northwestern University’s Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT) has received a new $14.5 million reinvestment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), extending the center’s funding for another four years.

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump will face off in their first televised debate on Tuesday in Philadelphia.
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Northwestern University opioid-addiction expert Sterling Elliott will moderate a panel discussion on the opioid epidemic at the Sept. 12 annual meeting of the Illinois Council of Health System Pharmacists.
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Opportunity hoarding has gained attention over the last several years, particularly after the 2019 Varsity Blues Scandal in which wealthy, well-known parents used their money, status and privilege to illegally get their children into university.

CHICAGO --- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic is Counsel of Record for an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the U.S. v. Skrmetti case — which will consider Tennessee’s ban on gender affirming care for minors, specifically puberty blockers and hormone therapy. The brief, filed today, highlighted the centuries-old medical practice of gender-affirming care in the United States, reiterating that the practice is not experimental.
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While the mental health crisis has touched the lives of young people across a broad age spectrum, new Northwestern University research has found that the presence of difficult social environments and the absence of positive social environments predicted greater increases in depressive symptoms in youth, aged 9-11.

States with the most severe post-Dobbs abortion restrictions also have the fewest policies in place to support raising families, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

In the largest study of its kind, scientists at Northwestern University found pediatricians were more likely to talk to parents about how to securely store their firearms and offer a free cable lock if they received a prompt and some support to do so.