http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed a website that walks healthcare providers through the challenging transition from the current International Classification of Diseases—ICD-9—to the new ICD-10. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-uic-specialists-ease-healthcare-codes.html Health Wed, 15 May 2013 17:23:16 EST news287857389 Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-robotic-transplant-option-obese-kidney.html Surgery Wed, 15 May 2013 13:30:53 EST news287843444 In one of the largest observational studies of its kind, researchers report that a combination of chemotherapy and radiation followed by surgery in patients with stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer improves survival. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-chemo-surgery-survival-lung-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:37:33 EST news286547845 Patients' health outcomes improve when physicians individualize care and take their patients' life circumstances into account, according to a new study by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-patients-undercover-encounters-doctors.html Health Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:00:01 EST news285245304 How do nerve cells—which can each be up to three feet long in humans—keep from rupturing or falling apart? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-scientists-nerve-cells-strong.html Neuroscience Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:14:00 EST news285261234 The search for a cure for deadly infectious diseases has led Brian Murphy deep underwater. Murphy, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is collecting actinomycete bacteria from water throughout the world in a hunt for new antibiotics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-key-tuberculosis-underwater.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:43:41 EST news281965413 Minimally invasive islet transplantation for patients with type 1 diabetes achieves insulin independence and reverses the progression of atherosclerosis in the first few years after transplant, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-islet-transplant-atherosclerosis.html Diabetes Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:04:04 EST news278597037 Cholesterol plays a key role in regulating proteins involved in cell signaling and may be important to many other cell processes, an international team of researchers has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-cholesterol-key-proteins-cell.html Medical research Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:04:56 EST news275141089 (Medical Xpress)—Patients who fail to follow their prescribed treatments cost the U.S. health care system an estimated $100 billion annually. But community pharmacists and insurance benefit managers, working together, can help patients comply with vital pharmaceutical therapies, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-drug-benefit-pharmacists-patient-compliance.html Health Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:24:55 EST news274692283 Injured patients were less likely to die in the hospital if they had alcohol in their blood, according to a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health—and the more alcohol, the more likely they were to survive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-alcohol-effect-mortality-substantial.html Health Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:52:32 EST news272551941 (Medical Xpress)—Chemists and vision scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have designed a light-sensitive molecule that can stimulate a neural response in cells of the retina and brain—a possible first step to overcoming degenerative eye diseases like age-related macular degeneration, or to quieting epileptic seizures. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-photo-switch-nerve-cells-eye-brain.html Medical research Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:22:21 EST news272128914 Children and adolescents consume more calories and soda and have poorer nutrient-intake on days they eat at either fast-food or full-service restaurants, as compared to days they eat meals at—or from—home. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-kids-consume-soda-calories.html Health Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:00:02 EST news271335253 In a study that involved more than 16,000 Hispanic/Latino men and women living in the United States, the prevalence of major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors was high and varied markedly across different background groups; and those born in the U.S. were more likely to report a history of coronary heart disease and stroke and to have multiple CVD risk factors, according to a study appearing in November 7 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cardiovascular disease. The study is being released early online to coincide with the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hispanics-high-cardiovascular-disease.html Cardiology Mon, 05 Nov 2012 11:00:01 EST news271334962 (Medical Xpress)—University of Illinois at Chicago researchers are conducting a study to determine if treating mothers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder—either with medication or parent training—will help children at risk for ADHD. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-mothers-adhd-outcomes-kids.html Attention deficit disorders Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:40:37 EST news269764828 White non-Hispanic construction workers are awarded higher workers' compensation settlements in Illinois than Hispanic or black construction workers with similar injuries and disabilities, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-white-workers-illinois-higher-comp.html Health Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:47:54 EST news269254065