Tipsheet from the University of Illinois at Chicago in advance of Geological Society of America meeting: 1) A challenge to Gould's notion of "early experimentation, later standardization", 2) New technique to visualize intact bacteria from underground samples
The University of Illinois at Chicago has launched the new department of disability and human development, which offers a master's degree program and, in collaboration with two other departments, the nation's first Ph.D. program in disability studies.
Confronted with a population of more than 92,000 institutionalized children and thousands more roaming the streets, a team of 14 Romanian child welfare officials came to the University of Illinois at Chicago to learn how to improve the quality of child care services in their country.
Consuming a substance found in red wine, grapes and other foods may prevent cancer, University of Illinois at Chicago researchers report in the Jan. 10 issue of Science magazine. The researchers discovered the cancer chemopreventive activity of the substance, resveratrol, as part of a project to test plants from around the world for their ability to prevent cancer. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE by Science magazine Thursday, Jan. 9, 1997 4 p.m. Eastern time
Latinos have high levels of unmet health needs or encounter many barriers in gaining access to the health-care system, and once they enter the system, at times they do not receive the full benefits of medical care. Those are some of the findings of a new series of studies conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Midwest Latino Health Research Center and School of Public Health.
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have synthesized a new vitamin D-5 compound that may prevent cancer without the toxicity associated with most vitamin D-3 compounds. The UIC unit's findings will be published Feb. 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
A condition once considered hopeless for 6,000 twin babies each year in the United States is now being treated with a new, pioneering laser surgical procedure at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at the Veterans Administration West Side Medical Center have found that cocaine may weaken the body's natural defenses by dramatically altering the numbers and genetic machinery of an important type of immune cell from the thymus gland.
Psychiatrists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are using a "testimony" method of psychotherapy to help survivors of the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina. These survivors of genocide have suffered extreme psychological traumas that require special attention from mental health professionals.
The African-American middle class, especially workers holding well-paying private-sector jobs, is in danger of disappearing -- and the political and social forces that helped create it may help hasten its demise, concludes a University of Illinois at Chicago sociologist in a new book.
At a recent conference on "data mining" at the University of Illinois at Chicago, experts from around the world witnessed a first in the use of the next generation of network communications. The demonstration of data mining--the automatic search for patterns, asociations, and changes in large databases--is important because it showed data mining shows data mining can be done over a wide geographic area.
A three-dimensional view of the fine bones, nerves, and hollow spaces in the human ear--from any vantage point inside or outside the organ-- is now possible, thanks to a virtual model constructed by a team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The model--explored using a wand and a special pair of eyeglasses while facing a 20-square-foot screen--allows surgeons to familiarize themselves with the complex spatial relationships of structures composing the ear.
African-American children with obstructive sleep apnea have significantly lower blood-oxygen levels compared to other groups, according to a study by sleep disorder researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.
As the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Tuberculosis Research celebrates its 50th anniversary, researchers here are moving forward to identify components of the tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, that are effective in the treatment of cancers when taken orally.
Some expectant parents fear that intercourse during pregnancy may cause premature labor. But a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine found that there is no direct and clear link between sexual intercourse and spontaneous labor.
Many patients with heart ailments do not recognize smoking, high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels as risk factors for their own condition, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and two other institutions.
The University of Illinois at Chicago will host the Second International Symposium on Oxidative Stress and Brain Damage Sept. 26-28 at the Hotel Inter-Continental, 505 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois. The focus is neuropsychiatric disorders.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have incorporated virtual reality technology into a manufacturing design tool that allows the user to visualize and plan a factory while it is still in the design phase. The tool, a computer simulation, is proving its usefulness at Searle, a pharmaceutical company based in Skokie, Ill.
A course to help physicians tell parents that their child has died will be presented by University of Illinois at Chicago emergency medicine physician Dr. William Ahrens at the annual Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians in San Francisco Oct. 17.
Experts at the University of Illinois at Chicago have pioneered a new procedure to repair the skulls of persons who have undergone brain surgery or have suffered serious head trauma, including gunshot wounds.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University medical schools have published new findings in the Oct. 23 New England Journal of Medicine that challenge the genetic concept of race as it relates to birth weight.
The Chicago area's largest university, the university of Illinois at Chicago, has created a department of bioengineering, giving significant new emphasis to the burgeoning field and combining UIC's strengths in engineering and medicine. The new department head says bioengineering is not just biotechnology.
The University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center has developed a home health monitoring system that allows older patients to test their own blood at home and transmit the results electronically to the hospital.
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers are using computer models and psychological testing to help reduce the number of medication errors caused by look-alike and sound-alike medication names.
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found an important molecular clue to genetic diseases caused by expansions of repeated DNA segments. The lengths of the segments and the status of protein synthesis in a cell affect their replication.
Commonly considered a disease affecting younger people, AIDS rapidly is becoming a part of older people's lives -- as care givers, family members, friends and patients.
Researchers have spent decades studying the political opinions and behavior of whites and African-Americans. But far less is known about political attitudes of Latinos, say two University of Illinois at Chicago political scientists who have conducted some of the first surveys designed to find out how Chicago Latinos think about politics and act on their beliefs.
A family member's suicide affects "survivors" in ways that go beyond grief over the death of a loved one, causing emotional reactions that resemble post-traumatic stress disorder and should be treated as such, says an expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago who works with suicide survivors and researches ways to help them best cope with their emotions and loss.
Chicago's Richard J. Daley was the best American big-city mayor since 1960, and Philadelphia's Frank Rizzo was the worst, according to a nationwide poll of 69 urban historians and political scientists conducted by a history professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
An expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago studies what he calls the "real relationships" between domestic violence and substance abuse.
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a previously unknown genetic mechanism by which a gene, known as INGI, suppresses tumors in collaboration with the well-known tumor suppressor p53.
Rules established by religious denominations allowing women to be ordained as ministers -- or prohibiting it -- have little to do with the roles women actually play in the church, according to a new book by a sociologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A new book by a University of Illinois at Chicago art historian tells how the atomic bomb came to occupy its spot at the center of postwar American culture and psychology. Peter Bacon Hales's "Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project" draws on de-classified government files, plus medical records, letters, and photos. Creating the bomb, concludes Hales, "created a new form of American cultural landscape."
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have found that a new treatment alternative for people suffering from severe asthma attacks is more effective and much less costly than traditional hospital inpatient care. Researchers estimate that the alternative treatment, known as an emergency department observation unit, costs $1,202 per patient compared with $2,247 per patient for inpatient care -- a drop of 47 percent.
Think you might be paid less than your co-workers who do the same job? Looking for a new job on account of it? In situations such as these, says a management expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago, race and sex matter. Studies by Maryann Albrecht found that men of color and women of all races perceive they are paid less than people who do the same work at the same company.
A 59-year-old patient who underwent a rare simultaneous liver transplant and coronary artery bypass surgery is doing exremely well a year later. His case is featured in a recent issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Inner-city drug dealing is a good example of what management guru Peter Drucker would call entrepreneurship, says a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.
A bioengineer at the University of Illinois at Chicago is developing a process to freeze and thaw skin grafts for use in treating burn injuries.
A study by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher says negative attitudes toward homosexuality can lead to low self-esteem and increased risk for HIV among young African-American gay and bisexual men.
The University of Illinois at Chicago will host a major conference on the growing threat of high-tech crime on the Internet, featuring internationally known authorities. The conference will be Aug. 5-7 in the Amoco building, Indiana Room Auditorium, 200 E. Randolph, Chicago.
Researchers, including UIC ophthalmologists, have found that an antiviral drug often used to suppress genital herpes also decreases the recurrence of herpes of the eye. In its most serious form, the condition can cause blindness.
Anthony J. Rucci, 47, a Chicago business executive for nearly 20 years, was appointed today as dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
For the fourth consecutive year, the entrepreneurial studies institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago has been named one of the best programs of its kind by Success magazine, ranking 10th nationwide.
A unique instructional laboratory allows students anywhere in the world to experiment with real circuit elements--not simulations--through a web-based application. Its developer says he was motivated in part by students' being turned off by experiences with faulty equipment.
A University of Illinois at Chicago chemist has developed a technique to produce the core part of the protease-inhibitor drug molecule in the laboratory. The technique may offer drug manufacturers a more cost-effective way to produce protease inhibitors.
Engineers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are experimenting with promising new methods to remove metal and organic contaminants from soil without excavating the site.
UIC archaeologist Brian Bauer and colleagues have unearthed artifacts from sites in South America that shed light on how the Inca organized their sun-worship rituals and how they physically kept track of the sun's movements.
Compared to most other religions, Judaism requires a lot of time and a high level of personal investment to gain the rewards or benefits of religious participation, says University of Illinois at Chicago professor Carmel Chiswick. "Because the observance of traditional Jewish ritual is 'time-intensive,' Judaism tends to be a costly religion - especially in high-wage households in the United States," Chiswick says.
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers report in the Oct. 2 issue of Science magazine that increasing the amount of drug therapy early in the treatment of hepatitis C patients dramatically reduces production of the virus and strongly suggests that a new, more effective treatment strategy may readily be available.
The University of Illinois at Chicago department of occupational therapy has received a $729,000 grant from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Education to expand a pilot program to help people with HIV/AIDS return to work.
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