U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, October 18, 2018 at UIC (Photo: UIC/Elizabeth Monge) June 6, 2019 Addiction, pain medicine and public policy experts will discuss modern strategies for managing opioid use, abuse and overdose at the “Addressing Chicagoland’s Opioid Crisis: A Healthcare Response” conference on June 7 at the University of Illinois [...]
May 24, 2019 New neurons continue to be formed in the hippocampus into the tenth decade of life, even in people with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease (Illustration: Orly Lazarov, et al.) In a new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers examining post-mortem brain tissue from people ages 79 to 99 [...]
May 9, 2019 Illustration: UIC Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design/Naumita Pereira The University of Illinois at Chicago will lead a $14.6 million, multi-center research project to determine which of two drugs — azithromycin, an antibiotic, or roflumilast, an anti-inflammatory medication — is the most effective at treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is [...]