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As part of their COVID-19 global-surveillance efforts, scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have been traveling internationally to meet with local clinicians and scientists, including those who provide care to remote communities along the Amazon River.

Over the past 21 years of opioid overdose deaths, geography has played a role in where they have occurred, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. But the coming wave will not discriminate between rural and urban areas, the study findings suggest. Every type of county—from the most rural to the most urban—is predicted to see dramatic increases in deaths from opioid-involved overdoses.

Northwestern University researchers have augmented a physics-based numerical model to investigate and predict areas susceptible to debris flows, or fast-moving landslides.

How much should the wider general public be concerned after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the unprecedented global monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency? Northwestern Medicine experts weigh in.

Health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic formed a new type of professional organization—the health professional amplifier—to tweet accurate health and safety information, amplify one another and offer support when members are harassed or attacked online. A new Northwestern Medicine paper explains the genesis of these groups and why they are an effective tool to combat misinformation and disinformation online.

Bothsidesism — also referred to as false balance reporting — can damage the public’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and lead audiences to doubt the scientific consensus on pressing societal challenges like climate change, a new Northwestern University study has found.

Although their spirometry readings appear “normal,” a substantial portion of adults actually have emphysema when imaged with CT scans, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. This is disproportionately seen among Black men, who have significantly higher rates of emphysema than white men, despite having similar estimates of lung function.

A national poll published July 11 by the COVID States Project indicates that a majority of Americans in most states support life-saving abortion care — and that states which have enacted laws banning abortion without an exception for rape are at odds with majorities of their own residents.

Historian Kate Masur, an expert on the 19th-century, discusses historical events referenced by House Jan. 6 committee members, and observations from the testimonies of former Oath Keeper Jason Van Tatenhove and Donald Trump supporter Stephen Ayers.
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