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An expert on infrastructure policy, Joseph Schofer is available to discuss the recently passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, which will be signed into law next week.
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Judge Anisa Rasooli will accept Northwestern’s Global Jurist of the Year Award on behalf of all women judges in Afghanistan.

Potentially life-saving genetic testing is underutilized in cardiomyopathy patients, reports a new study. Screening for variants associated with both cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias simultaneously improved detection.

Ahead of tomorrow’s release of inflation data for the month of October, economists from Northwestern University are available to speak with media on what the Federal Reserve can do to curb rising consumer prices.

Economist Matthias Doepke explains the key factors behind a sluggish labor force participation rate. Doepke is professor of economics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.
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Using gravitational-wave detection, researchers assembled the largest catalog ever, which details 33 black hole mergers and 2 mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

With Pfizer’s announcement today that its new pill — Paxlovid — to treat COVID-19 was highly effective in preventing severe illness in at-risk people in a clinical trial, Northwestern Medicine experts stress vaccines are still the best defense against the virus and ending the pandemic.

Experts are available on a wide range of global challenges facing our world, as defined by the ambitious framework set out in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
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Emergency department wait times increased 10% in states that expanded Medicaid coverage to cover more low-income Americans in 2014 under a new provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Northwestern Medicine experts explain how our internal and external clocks become misaligned with every time switch, warn how the twice annual transition is linked to an increase in car accidents, impaired performance (learning, memory, attention) and health risks. When clocks are misaligned, that increases health risks like cardiovascular disease.