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UChicago Medicine, UChicago and City Colleges of Chicago forge healthcare education and clinical lab partnership

UChicago Medicine plans to build a new clinical lab facility in Washington Park that would consolidate existing clinical labs, modernize operations, create new jobs and support educational pathways for in-demand healthcare careers.
5-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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UChicago Medicine’s new Crown Point multispecialty care facility expected to open April 29

Expected to open April 29, UChicago Medicine Crown Point will be the organization's first freestanding facility in Indiana — and its largest offsite location. Patients can make appointments starting March 18.
4-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Microbiome studies explore why more women develop Alzheimer’s disease

Two new studies from the University of Chicago investigate the roles of the gut microbiome and estrogen in the differing rates of Alzheimer’s disease among women and men.
26-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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UChicago Medicine expands neuroscience collaboration in China

The University of Chicago Medicine expanded its neuroscience expertise in China via collaborations with Shanghai Blue Cross Brain Hospital to support improved healthcare delivery, clinical quality and operational efficiency worldwide.
26-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

UChicago receives $13.2 million grant to test digital dementia intervention

Neuroscientist Emily Rogalski, PhD, is a principal investigator on a grant from the NIH to support a clinical trial of a telehealth intervention for primary progressive aphasia (PPA).
26-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

The Center to Eliminate Cancer Inequity to address unequal burden of cancer driven by health disparities

A new center at the University of Chicago Medicine will provide strategic leadership to bring together researchers, healthcare providers and community members to eliminate Chicago’s chronic cancer disparities.
16-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

UChicago Medicine expands on the North Shore with new Northbrook office

Urogynecology and women’s health care now available; gastrointestinal services to be added this spring.
14-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Updating allocation algorithms could help donor hearts reach the transplant patients who need them most

UChicago Medicine researchers led the development of a new risk score for prioritizing heart transplant candidates based on medical urgency, incorporating objective clinical measurements to offer a more precise and fair alternative to the current...
13-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites


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Fatty liver disease gets a new name

The former Metabolic and Fatty Liver Clinic at the University of Chicago Medicine is undergoing a name change, as part of a shift in language to drop stigmatizing words, precisely describe the condition and identify a subgroup of patients omitted...
15-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EST

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Neurosurgery Team Performs Groundbreaking Laser Hemispherectomy on Child with Epilepsy

For only the second time in the world, doctors at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital and the Department of Neurosurgery used a minimally invasive surgery to disconnect the right and left sides of the brain, stopping the...
25-Jun-2021 5:05 PM EDT

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