Media Advisory: Webinar with University of Chicago gambling researcher Dr. Jon Grant on changes to DSM-5 and how they will impact diagnosis and treatment of gambling disorders.
A study of the genomes of more than 1,500 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis found multiple genetic associations with the disease. One variant in a gene called TOLLIP was linked to an increase in the risk of death. This finding suggests that an abnormal immune response to infectious agents or environmental injury may be central to the disease.
Two major gifts will build momentum behind the University of Chicago’s leadership in biomedical computation by assembling experts in the field and furnishing them with the tools to use “big data” to understand disease and solve today’s health-related challenges.
The Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence has named stem cell transplant specialist Michael Bishop, MD, as its second master clinician. The three-year appointment is designed to mentor faculty and student scholars to improve crucial doctor-patient communication skills.
The Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry & Innovation in Sexual & Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago has received a $500,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to advance its work identifying novel solutions to complex problems affecting health and well-being in vulnerable communities.
About 90% of children with two copies of a common genetic variation and who wheezed when they caught a cold early in life developed asthma by age 6. They were nearly four times as likely to develop asthma as those who lacked the genetic variation and did not wheeze. The two risk factors are interactive.
The University of Chicago kicks off its new Center of Excellence in Gambling Research by hosting a symposium on the latest research into gambling disorders and gaming. This focus comes as Illinois eyes expansion of gaming opportunities to help offset its crushing fiscal deficit.
A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into categories. Different types of information can be simultaneously encoded within the posterior parietal cortex.
For men with low-risk prostate cancer, focal laser ablation treats just the diseased portion of the prostate rather than the entire gland. A phase 1 trial found it was safe. None of the 9 men in the study had a significant side effect. Seven of the 9 patients had no evidence of disease 6 months later.
For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics spoke with one voice and released a set of recommendations and guidelines on best practices for genetic testing and screening of children.
Some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods are expected to see the greatest demand for additional primary care doctors in 2014, as the Affordable Care Act boosts the number of newly insured patients seeking medical services, a new study has found.
The University of Chicago has been named a Center of Excellence in Gambling Research following the award of a three-year $402,500 grant to Jon Grant, MD, JD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience, by the National Center for Responsible Gaming.
A search for long-lived balancing selection has found at least six regions of the genome where humans and chimpanzees share a combination of genetic variants. These human genetic variation dates back to a common ancestor with chimpanzees millions of years ago, before the species split.
University of Chicago Medical Center President Sharon O’Keefe has been named to the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago.
While minority populations are rising throughout the country, enrollment by minority students in the nation's medical schools has stagnated. Further, some data show that non-white students face a greater likelihood of academic withdrawal or dismissal, or graduate without passing key exams on their first try. Why is this happening? That question is at the crux of a new study that analyzes the successes of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine’s program to address the lack of diversity among health care professionals nationwide, particularly as minorities make up an increasing share of the U.S. population.
A nationally recognized orthopedic surgeon will head the newly created Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine starting Jan. 1, 2013.
Real estate businessman Seymour “Sy” Taxman and his wife, Nancy, presented a gift of $2.5 million to the University of Chicago Medicine on Wednesday in honor of the late Joseph B. Kirsner, MD, PhD, the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and a pioneer in the research and treatment of digestive disease.
A medication being tested to help smokers kick the habit also may help avoid the weight gain that is common after quitting -- but only in women. This is the first medication shown to reduce weight gain for up to one year in women smokers who quit.
Graeme Ian Bell, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, has been awarded the Manpei Suzuki International Prize for 2012 for his pioneering work in understanding the role of genetics in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
The University of Chicago Medicine has launched the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program for leukemia and lymphoma patients aged 15 to 30. The program is one of only a handful in the county specifically designed for this age group.
Ovarian cancer cells use three microRNAs to convert normal, healthy cells into cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). These cells pump out chemical signals that help cancer cells multiply, invade healthy tissues and travel to distant sites. By reversing the microRNA signals, the researchers were able to cause CAFs to revert to normal.
Eric Whitaker, MD, MPH, will leave his post at the University of Chicago Medicine as executive vice president of strategic affiliations and associate dean of community-based research on March 31 to seek a new venture in the public health field.
The two-day conference will focus on ethical issues in organ transplantation, plus broader ethical topics including global health, pediatric immunization and end-of-life care. The keynote will be the presentation of the second annual $50,000 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics.
Challenging the old notion that the function of sleep is to rest the brain, researchers show that not getting enough sleep can harm fat cells, reducing by 30 percent their ability to respond to insulin, a hormone that regulates energy. This is the first description of a molecular mechanism directly connecting sleep loss to the disruption of energy regulation.
The University of Chicago Medicine’s new 1.2 million-square-foot hospital is getting a name that will underscore its commitment to innovative medical research and patient-centered care: the Center for Care and Discovery.
As part of an initiative to vaccinate some of Chicago’s most vulnerable populations, University of Chicago Medicine nurses will administer free flu shots to licensed taxicab drivers at O’Hare Airport on Tuesday, Sept. 25, and at Midway Airport the following Tuesday, Oct. 2. Up to 1,000 cabbies could be vaccinated over the two days.
The University of Chicago Medicine has named Brenda Battle, RN, BSN, MBA, former head of the Center for Diversity and Cultural Competence at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, as its new vice president for care delivery innovation and assistant dean for diversity and inclusion.
UHC, a national alliance of non-profit academic medical centers, has awarded the University of Chicago Medicine its 2012 Supplier Diversity Leadership Award for supporting women- and minority-owned businesses.
Lisa Allegra, Amy Franze and Eve Tyree have been appointed to the University of Chicago Medicine Kovler Diabetes Center’s leadership board. The 10-member board promotes the vision and mission of the Kovler Diabetes Center and supports the needs of the physicians who provide clinical care, research, education and outreach.
A more-sensitive method to analyze protein interactions has uncovered a new way that cancer cells may use the cell-surface molecule HER3 to drive tumor progression following treatment with HER1 and HER2 inhibitors. This study shows that HER3 could be up to 10 times more effective than HER2 in recruiting the proteins that drive the spread of cancer.
Vaccines and antibiotics may someday join caloric restriction or bariatric surgery as a way to regulate weight gain, according to a new study focused on the interactions between diet, the bacteria that live in the bowel, and the immune system.
A glass a day of grapefruit juice lets patients derive the same benefits from an anti-cancer drug as they would get from more than three times as much of the drug by itself. The combination could help patients avoid side effects associated with high doses of the drug and reduce the cost of the medication.
Patients who are frequently hospitalized account for a disproportionate amount of health care spending. Working with a $6.1 million grant, a new University of Chicago Medicine program will test whether an updated version of the traditional general practitioner can reduce spending while also improving care.
Major disparities exist along racial and ethnic lines in the United States for various medical conditions, but guidance is scarce about how to reduce these gaps. Now, a new "roadmap" has been unveiled to give organizations expert guidance on how to improve health equity in their patient populations.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a concept at the heart of many health care reform models that aim to both improve the quality of care and reduce wasteful spending. But a new analysis of federally qualified health centers finds that clinics with higher scores as medical homes also had higher per-patient operating costs.
Researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine argue that parents should be critical stakeholders in the expansion of newborn screening to include lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs).
The University of Chicago Medicine and Silver Cross Hospital's $21.6 million outpatient cancer treatment center in New Lenox will open its doors to patients on Monday, June 25, 2012.
A poll of 150 resident physicians found more than half of had worked with flu-like symptoms at least once in the last year. Nearly 10% believed they’d transmitted an illness to a patient and 20% believed other residents had passed an illness to a patient.
Certain saturated fats that are common in the modern Western diet can initiate a chain of events leading to complex immune disorders in those with a genetic predisposition. This study provides the first plausible mechanism showing step-by-step how Western-style diets contribute to the rapid and ongoing increase in the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease.
The common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth resembled a shark, according to a new analysis of the braincase of a 290-million-year-old fossil fish that has long puzzled paleontologists.
The University of Chicago Medicine has received an A grade in hospital safety in The Leapfrog Group’s survey of more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals.
Survivors of childhood cancers are at an increased risk of another battle with cancer later in life, according to new research published online June 5 by the Annals of Internal Medicine. In the largest study to date of risk for gastrointestinal (GI) cancers among people first diagnosed with cancer before the age of 21, researchers found that childhood cancer survivors develop these malignancies at a rate nearly five times that of the general population.
The University of Chicago Medicine contributed 21.4 percent of total operating expenses, or $237.1 million, in community benefits to promote health and well-being on the South Side and beyond.
A large pad of abdominal fat cells provides nutrients that promote the spread and growth of ovarian cancer, the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths in women. This fatty tissue, extraordinarily rich in energy-dense lipids, serves as a rich fuel source, enabling cancer cells to multiply rapidly.
A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous malformation — a brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke — for the first time in a new study. Fasudil shows potential as a valuable new tool in addressing a clinical problem that is currently treatable only with complex surgery.
Young genes that appeared since the primates split from other mammal species are expressed in unique structures of the developing human brain, a new analysis finds. The correlation suggests that scientists studying the evolution of the human brain should look to genes considered recent by evolutionary standards and early stages of brain development.
Chicago will be home to a new $13.75 million project that will apply data mining methods to better understand the genetic and environmental factors behind neuropsychiatric disorders.
A regulatory bias against taking oral anti-cancer medications with food places patients at risk for an overdose and forces them to flush away costly medicines, argues an authority on cancer-drug dosing. It could be safer, more effective and cost-efficient if the cancer drugs that are better absorbed with food were studied and, when appropriate, prescribed to be taken with food.
A new model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that mirrors both symptoms of the disease and the timing of its treatment in humans has been created by University of Chicago researchers, according to a new study.
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