The University of Chicago Medicine will bring its cancer care, academic specialists and array of clinical trials to the Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers (LCMH) in Evergreen Park under a new affiliation agreement.
Researchers, health care providers, trainees and community members will come together for a forum on Asian-American health disparities as a kickoff event celebrating Chicago’s new Center for Asian Health Equity.
A study of people who placed a relative or friend in a nursing home found that few people were aware of the Nursing Home Compare website, published online by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to help families find the right facility. Many who viewed the website also did not trust it. The authors suggest ways to overcome some of NHC’s problems.
The University of Chicago Medicine will begin treating adult and pediatric patients at its new orthopaedic center in Orland Park on April 6.
Married men over age 55 were 20% more likely to have had a screening colonoscopy in the last 5 years than unmarried men. Men married to women who are happier with the relationship were 30% more likely. If their wives were highly educated: 40%. For women, being married made no significant difference.
The Human Rights Campaign is naming The University of Chicago Medicine as a "Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality," according to a new report released Thursday by the advocacy group. The HRC Foundation, the educational arm of the country's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, released the list of hospital leaders in its Healthcare Equality Index 2016.
Individuals with a psychiatric disorder involving recurrent bouts of extreme, impulsive anger—road rage, for example—are more than twice as likely to have been exposed to a common parasite than healthy individuals with no psychiatric diagnosis.
In a series of three articles published Thursday in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine provide a roadmap to help health providers better understand the unique needs of patients with multiple minority identities.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine earned a No. 11 spot in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools,” continuing its status as one of the country’s best training grounds for future physicians.
Yolanda T. Becker, MD, professor of surgery and director of the kidney and pancreas transplantation program at the University of Chicago Medicine, has been elected vice president/president-elect of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) board of directors.
UChicago Medicine and Chicago Lakeshore Hospital are forming a new collaboration that advances psychiatric teaching and provides comprehensive clinical educational experience for UChicago Medicine residents and medical students, while simultaneously enhancing care for both organizations’ patients.
Cutting back on sleep boosts levels of a chemical signal that can enhance the pleasure of eating snack foods and increase caloric intake. It may be part of a mechanism that encourages overeating, leading to weight gain.
The University of Chicago Medicine is seeking state approval for a bold project that will address the lack of access to emergency and adult trauma services and complex care on the South Side.
The use of clot-busting drugs to clear blood from the brain’s ventricles may be the first effective strategy to decrease mortality for a type of catastrophic bleeding stroke, according to phase-3 clinical trial results. Treatment also significantly reduced post-stroke disability in some patients.
The first study to measure the full spectrum of age-related damage to all five senses found that 94 percent of older adults in the United States have at least one sensory deficit, 38 percent have two, and 28 percent have three, four or five. Deficits in multiple senses were strongly associated with age, gender and race.
The human fingertip is a finely tuned sensory machine, and even slight touches convey a great deal of information about our physical environment. It turns out, some fish use their pectoral fins in pretty much the same way. And do so through a surprisingly similar biological mechanism to mammals.
African-American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis are twice as likely as white patients to suffer from atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death.
David Freedman, PhD, a neuroscientist who studies the neural underpinnings of learning, memory and decision-making, has been awarded the 2016 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
The Hospira Foundation has donated $5 million to the University of Chicago Medicine to create the Hospira Foundation Professorship in Oncology. This position significantly bolsters the University’s capacity to conduct pioneering research in cancer.
Two consecutive nights of extended sleep, a typical weekend occurrence, appears to counteract the increased risk of diabetes associated with short-term sleep restriction during the work week, at least in lean, healthy, young men eating a controlled diet.
A University of Chicago Medicine physician Catherine Humikowski joined U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., at a press conference as he continued to push for federal funding for research into the causes and implications of gun violence.
People who have a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme outbursts of anger – road rage, for example – have significantly lower gray matter volume in the brain region that plays an important role in regulating emotion, report scientists from the University of Chicago.
For HHT patients and their families in Chicago and beyond, the University of Chicago Medicine is now designated as an HHT Center of Excellence by Cure HHT, the worldwide advocacy group for the disorder. This honor recognizes UCM as the 22nd center in North America and the only facility in Illinois that specializes in the diagnosis and comprehensive care of HHT.
A single chance mutation caused an ancient protein to evolve a new function essential for multicellularity in animals, about a billion years ago, according to research co-led by UChicago scientists.
In an effort to expand access, UChicago Medicine is proposing a bold plan to invest in facilities and programs that will deepen and broaden their commitment to the community and expand their ability to provide the highest quality health care to the South Side of Chicago.
The University of Chicago Medicine has decided to build a Level 1 adult trauma center at its Medical Center campus. This will ensure Chicago's South Side community has access to comprehensive adult trauma care. Earlier this fall, University of Chicago Medicine and Sinai Health System announced a proposed partnership to offer Level 1 adult trauma care at Holy Cross Hospital, part of Sinai's network.
Early trials of new cancer drugs often require extra biopsies to determine the drugs’ biochemical and physiological effects. A new study shows that this costly, risky and often painful process has had no impact on subsequent drug development.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) may be triggered by the death of brain cells that make myelin, the insulation around nerve fibers, according to research on a novel mouse model. This can be prevented through the application of specially developed nanoparticles, even after the loss of those brain cells.
Thyroid cancer survivors report poor quality of life after treatment compared with others who have more lethal cancers. The findings shed light on a rarely studied outcome for a growing group of patients who will soon account for 10 percent of American cancer survivors.
The evolution of the striking, wing-like pectoral fins of skates and rays relied on repurposed genes, according to a new study from the University of Chicago. The findings shed light on the genetic mechanisms responsible for the evolution and diversification of vertebrate appendages.
When blood was collected from the portal vein from patients with suspected pancreatic or bile duct cancer, researchers found circulating tumors cells in 100 percent of 18 patients, compared to only 4 out of 18 when using standard samples.
Biomedical informatics, one of the world’s fastest-growing interdisciplinary fields, is the latest graduate degree program offered by the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies.
The University of Chicago Medicine and Ingalls Health System announced today that they signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to pursue a combined integrated health delivery system. The decision marks the culmination of Ingalls’ seven-month process of identifying a health system partner that will complement and enhance health care for patients throughout the Southwest area of Chicago.
The most rigorous genetic sequencing ever carried out on a single tumor reveals far greater genetic diversity among cancer cells than anticipated, more than 100 million distinct mutations within the coding regions of its genes.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine will redevelop aspects of its curriculum so each student learns elements of health care delivery science, an emerging field studying the intersection of scientific research and the day-to-day delivery of health care.
Introducing certain bacteria into the digestive tracts of mice with melanoma can help their immune systems attack tumor cells. The gains were comparable to treatment with anti-cancer drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors. The combination of bacteria and anti-PD-L1 nearly abolished tumor outgrowth.
The 2015 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes will be presented to Laura Roberts, MD, MA, who is chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and an internationally recognized scholar in bioethics, psychiatry, medicine and medical education. The $50,000 award is the largest prize in bioethics and clinical ethics.
A group of leading scientists representing a wide range of disciplines has formed a unified initiative to support basic research, technological development and commercial applications to better understand Earth’s vast systems of microorganisms.
Advanced cancer patients given a drug designed to relieve constipation caused by pain killers lived longer with less tumor progression than those who did not receive or respond to the drug, researchers report at the American Society of Anesthesiologists. This is the first study in humans to associate opioid blockade with longer survival.
A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.
The University of Chicago Medicine has signed a long-term lease for an 18,000-square-foot space in the South Loop that will offer primary care, cardiology, orthopedic, sports medicine and other medical and surgical specialties, as well as obstetrics-gynecology, reproductive and other select services for women.
October 7, 2015 Medical reversal -- when accepted medical interventions are abandoned because they are found to be ineffective -- is the "most important problem in medicine today," according to the authors of a new book: Ending Medical Reversal. It is "hardly the only problem," say the authors, Vinayak K.
Discovered in Spain, the fossil of the newly described, 125-million-year old Spinolestes xenarthrosus is remarkably well-preserved, containing fur, hair follicles, hedgehog-like spines, organs and even a fungal skin infection. It pushes back the record of preserved mammalian hair and soft tissue by more than 60 million years.
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