UIC opens three new health care simulation centers

September 13, 2019 View the fact sheet This fall, the University of Illinois at Chicago celebrates the opening of three health care simulation centers. The facilities, which are run individually by the university’s College of Medicine, College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy, use specially trained actors, advanced and computerized manikins of all ages, [...]

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Craniofacial center to celebrate 70 years

September 3, 2019 UI Health Craniofacial Center’s Alma Moya and patient. The UI Health Craniofacial Center will celebrate its 70th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the center will host a multidisciplinary patient care symposium Sept. 6 at UIC Student Center West. The symposium will provide a snapshot of past, present and future [...]

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Global transplant program welcomes international doctors to UIC

August 29, 2019 A team of doctors from around the globe is in Chicago to attend the 2nd GlobalBMT training course and learn more about blood and marrow transplant (BMT) from University of Illinois at Chicago specialists. The four doctors will spend eight weeks at UI Health, which is UIC’s clinical health enterprise, observing [...]

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Boosting the anti-inflammatory action of the immune system

July 30, 2019 Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a molecular switch that causes immune cells called macrophages to clean up cellular debris caused by infections instead of contributing to inflammation and tissue injury. Their findings are reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Macrophages are a type of [...]

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Researchers describe new ALS biomarkers, potential new drug targets

July 15, 2019 Different types of neurons and associated cells are found in spinal tissue from patients who died of ALS. Image: Fei Song. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, is an adult-onset neurodegenerative disease that causes paralysis and ultimately death when the nerves enervating the lungs cease to carry the signals needed [...]

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Robotic pancreas transplant offers hope for obese patients with Type 1 diabetes

July 10, 2019 Left to right: Dr. Mario Spaggiari, Arlys Martinez and Dr. Enrico Benedetti. For patients with Type 1 diabetes who don’t respond well to insulin or have other serious medical complications caused by their disease, pancreas transplantation offers hope for a cure. But obese candidates who need a pancreas transplant [...]

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‘Chaos’ in the home linked to poor asthma control in children

July 9, 2019 A chaotic household – one where things just don’t seem to run smoothly, there’s lots of noise, little gets taken care of in a timely manner, and where relaxation is difficult – as well as child and parent depression, are risk factors for worse asthma outcomes in urban minority children, [...]

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Docs should consider a patient’s weight before prescribing new chemotherapy drugs

July 1, 2019 A new class of cancer drugs just now entering the marketplace seems promising so far, but researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago urge doctors to take into account a patient’s weight and liver status before prescribing them. The drugs are known as PI3K inhibitors, and they dramatically decrease the activation [...]

By |2019-07-12T10:18:08-05:00July 2nd, 2019|COM News, COM Research, UICOM|Comments Off on Docs should consider a patient’s weight before prescribing new chemotherapy drugs

Researchers reveal key role of pressure-sensing protein in lung edema

June 11, 2019 Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago describe for the first time the role of a unique, pressure-sensing protein in the development of lung edema — a condition in which chronic high vascular pressure in the lungs causes fluid from the bloodstream to enter the air spaces of the lungs. The [...]

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