Geri Donenberg The University of Illinois at Chicago is one of eight universities awarded funding by the National Institutes of Health to prevent and treat sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, among adolescents and young adults in Africa and Brazil. Collectively, the international projects are known as Prevention and Treatment through a Comprehensive Care [...]
The department of medicine scholarly activities council will host an Ideas on Tap Research Mixer on Thursday, October 18. The theme will be Digital Health. Join us by sharing your recent research via poster. You can sign up to present your poster at http://go.uic.edu/IOT. All poster topics will be accepted.
Dr. Dawood Darbar Despite being the most common heart arrhythmia disorder in the U.S., there is not much research on the causes of atrial fibrillation in minority populations. While researchers know that black and Latino individuals are less likely than whites to develop the condition, which is also known as AFib, they cannot [...]
Dr. Brian Layden The University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Medicine is a new member of the Chicago Diabetes Training and Research Center. The membership comes with a five-year, $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, which will support researchers investigating diabetes and other endocrine-related diseases and help purchase specialized research [...]
Dr. Susan Bleasdale Surgical site infections are a significant complication that can prevent proper wound healing, require expensive treatment and may even lead to death in severe cases. Patients with higher body mass indices and with diabetes have an increased risk of developing incision infections. With a $1.7 million, two-year grant from the [...]
The department of medicine scholarly activities council will host an Ideas on Tap Research Mixer on Thursday, October 18. The theme will be Digital Health. Join us by sharing your recent research via poster. You can sign up to present your poster at http://go.uic.edu/IOT. All poster topics will be accepted.
2018-19 U.S. News and World Report ranking U.S. News and World Report, online news magazine have released the National 2018-19 Best Hospital rankings for the 29th Annual year running. The online news magazine best known for ranking all the Colleges, Universities, Hospitals nationally has compared more than 4,500 medical centers across 25 specialties, [...]
Lawrence E. Feldman, MD Mary Pasquinelli, APN Data from a lung cancer screening program at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides evidence that national lung cancer screening guidelines, which were developed based on the National Lung Screening Trial, or NLST, in 2011 and recommend screening based on age and smoking [...]
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