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The Food and Drug Administration’s decision today to ban the color additive Red 3 from food products is being welcomed as a long overdue move to address significant public health concerns says Dr. Melinda Ring, the director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician.

Doctors in the U.S. have reported feeling unprepared to care for people with disabilities and have revealed significant negative bias about this population, according to previous research. A new Northwestern Medicine study has found much of this could be rooted in their medical school training.

A new set of global clinical guidelines to redefine obesity was released Jan. 14. The new definition will move away from relying solely on BMI to diagnose obesity.

The Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University is turning up the heat this winter with Tina Howe’s acclaimed comedy “Museum,” the Chicago premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s “February House," and “DanceWorks 2025: signal::transfer,” a boundary-pushing dance production that transcends boundaries of time and space.

A new Northwestern study shows how achieving equity in various social drivers of health — but particularly education — could nearly eliminate heart health gaps for Black and Hispanic mothers.

Dr. Jennifer Jao, pediatric infectious disease expert from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, has been selected as co-chair of the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Northwestern scientists have adapted a sensing platform to detect and even measure chemicals at low enough concentrations to have use outside the lab. The system, which is 10 times more sensitive than previous sensors built by the team, opens the door for the system to be applied to disease detection and monitoring in the human body for nucleic acids and bacteria.

EVANSTON, Ill. --- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Friday, Jan. 10 during TikTok’s appeal to stop the enforcement of a federal law that requires the social media titan to shut down in the U.S. this month.
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“The post-presidency of Jimmy Carter is unique in many ways. Largely unwritten are accounts of the cutting-edge programs created at the Carter Center,” said Richard Joseph, political science professor emeritus at Northwestern University. Professors from history, journalism and political science offer political, historical and personal assessment of Jimmy Carter.
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Risk to public remains low, but virus could mutate and become more transmissible
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