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University of Chicago Medical Center maintains streak with 27th “A” grade in hospital safety from Leapfrog Group

The Leapfrog Group has awarded the University of Chicago Medical Center its 27th consecutive “A” Hospital Safety Grade, making it one of only 11 hospitals nationwide and the only one in Chicago with the “Straight A” distinction.
1-May-2025 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Community Resources Help Food-Insecure Kids Make Fewer ER Visits

CommunityRx-Hunger, a low-intensity program that “prescribes” a list of community social care resources during a child's hospital discharge, lowered emergency room visits for food-insecure families and potentially saved healthcare costs.
28-Apr-2025 10:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Pretrained Machine Learning Models May Help Accurately Diagnose Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in Resource-limited Settings

Artificial intelligence models, pretrained on vast datasets, significantly outperformed a standard baseline model in identifying nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSC) from digital images of tissue samples, according to research presented at the American...
27-Apr-2025 6:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Rade Tomic, MD, Joins Uchicago Medicine as Medical Director for Lung Transplant

Rade Tomic, MD, has joined UChicago Medicine as Professor and the Medical Director for Lung Transplant as of April 1, 2025. Tomic most recently served as Professor and Lung Transplant Program Medical Director for Northwestern University.
25-Apr-2025 7:25 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Tumor Byproduct Blocks Immune Cells From Fighting Cancer

A team of researchers from the University of Chicago, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, has identified a novel oncometabolite that accumulates in tumors and impairs immune cells' ability to fight cancer.
21-Apr-2025 10:50 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Global Telemedicine Therapy for Dementia Shows Benefit

Clinical trial results indicate that people living with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and their communication partners benefit from remote speech language therapy.
17-Apr-2025 10:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Understanding How Laughing Gas Can Fight Depression

New study helps explain the mechanisms by which nitrous oxide affects the brain, potentially offering insights that could help relieve treatment-resistant depression.
1-Apr-2025 8:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

DNA Microscope Creates 3D Images of Organisms From the Inside Out

UChicago researchers develop a new technology to create a spatial map of gene expression for an entire organism.
25-Mar-2025 9:35 PM EDT 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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