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Having advanced six policies since 2008 to detect and promote treatment of perinatal mental health conditions, the state of Illinois has emerged as a leader in these critical health areas, according to a study by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign social work professors Karen M. Tabb, center, and Sandra Kopels. U. of I. alumnus Xavier Ramirez co-wrote the paper, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.

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Management consultants and professors seem to be obsessed with visuals. When it comes to strategy, they either pull out their impeccable slides, replete with graphics, or they pick up a marker to sketch out their own frameworks on a whiteboard. This phenomenon has piqued the interest of Felipe Csaszar, professor of strategy.

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TermHub, the cloud-based healthcare terminology management system, is proud to announce that it now fully supports all content mandated in the latest version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), specifically USCDI Version 4.

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If you’re planning an international trip with your child, you may be wondering what vaccines they need and when they should get them. Before you head out of the country, it’s essential to make sure your child is up to date on all of their routine immunizations, including vaccines for COVID-19, flu and RSV.

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More than 8,200 students and their families will attend University of California, Irvine commencement ceremonies between Friday, June 14, and Monday, June 17, in the campus’s Bren Events Center.

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Cedars-Sinai has launched a program to help people 40 and older who do not have Alzheimer’s disease but want to understand—and reduce—their risk for developing the illness.

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Stony Brook University has named David Wrobel, PhD as the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). Wrobel joins Stony Brook from the University of Oklahoma, where he currently serves as dean of the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences. His appointment at Stony Brook begins August 1, 2024.

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Americans' interest in a potentially harmful "magic mushroom" is soaring, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.

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The LaundryCares Foundation in partnership with Wash Time on Fullerton and Near North Health is excited to announce a collaborative initiative with Wash Time on Fullerton Laundromat to address the early literacy gap in the Chicago community.

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A new publication titled “Protection of Participants in Community-Engaged Research by Institutional Review Boards: A Call for Action,” co-authored by Liliane Windsor, PhD, MSW, and Kevin Tan, PhD, MSW, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work, highlights critical shortcomings in the current Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes that hinder community-engaged research (CEnR).

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The da Vinci 5’s biggest innovation is enabling the surgeon’s hands to feel the same amount of pressure used by the robotic instruments.

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At the 244th American Astronomical Society meeting, researchers presented groundbreaking findings on planet formation in circumstellar disks around young binary stars

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People from South Asian countries tend to develop heart disease 10 years earlier than other populations. Kevin Shah, MD, is working to change that.

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Among the snowbirds returning north for the summer, A24 is special. For one thing, A24 is an actual bird: a Black-crowned night heron, to be exact. And it has just returned to Chicago to join hundreds of its kind nesting near Lake Michigan. But unlike the human snowbirds that share A24’s migratory habits, this bird is helping to inform conservation efforts in the city and far beyond.

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Checkpoint immunotherapy utilizing PD-1 blockade has become the standard of care for metastatic melanoma. While this treatment is effective in 40 percent of patients, the other 60 percent develop resistance, leading to tumor regrowth.

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Students in PCOM South Georgia’s culinary medicine course recently traded in their white coats for aprons to study the nutrition and biochemical properties of food while also learning how to prepare nutritious meals.

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By super cooling a molecule on the surface of brain cells down to about minus 180 degrees Celsius — nearly twice as cold as the coldest places in Antarctica — scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have determined how a widely-used epilepsy drug works to dampen the excitability of brain cells and help to control, although not cure, seizures.