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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Teresa Woodruff speaks at an NU celebration of Women’s Health Research Day. Woodruff founded the Northwestern Women’s Health Research Institute, which launched an upgraded version of their Illinois Women’s Health Registry on Jan. 25.

Northwestern symposium celebrates sex-inclusive science, relaunches women’s health registry

January 30, 2019

The Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern hosted its third annual Celebration of Sex-Inclusive Research on Friday. The symposium occurred just after U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and...

Northwestern launches men’s health registry for medical research

May 17, 2015

Northwestern's Women's Health Research Institute has launched a registry dedicated to supporting research of men's health in an effort to better understand women's health. The Illinois Men's Health...

Two Northwestern researchers influential in policy change on gender inclusion in research

May 27, 2014

The work of two Northwestern researchers was influential in a recent policy change by the National Institutes of Health, which will require that researchers include their plans for balancing male and...

Melina Kibbe, a professor of vascular surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, was featured on “60 Minutes” in a segment on recent discoveries regarding the importance of sex-based medical research. Kibbe launched a review of recently published articles in leading medical journals and has found that of the articles reviewed so far, only three percent have featured studies on both male and female subjects.

Feinberg professor featured on ’60 Minutes’ for research on drugs, gender

February 11, 2014

Feinberg School of Medicine Prof. Dr. Melina Kibbe was featured on "60 Minutes" on Sunday for her research demonstrating the effects of different drug dosages on males and females. Kibbe, a member...

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