The University of Chicago Education Lab released a new study June 7 that found school-based group counseling programs can significantly reduce PTSD, anxiety, and depression among Black and Latina girls. The study, which evaluated ...
Jun 7, 2023
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If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead of heat stress, without air conditioning, ever again.
Aug 11, 2022
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The rates of asthma in children are unusually high in Chicago and the respiratory disorder disproportionately affects African-American children. To address the issue, Rush University Medical Center and six other major medical ...
Jul 17, 2015
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Lauren Tilmont didn't believe it when her doctor told her a few years ago that he had a treatment that might allow her to eat peanuts, despite a lifelong allergy to them.
Sep 24, 2019
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Black and Hispanic people with acute myeloid leukemia in greater Chicago were more likely to die from the disease than their non-Hispanic white counterparts, with a 59% and 25% greater risk, respectively, according to a new ...
Mar 7, 2022
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On Dec. 1, the first U.S. case of the new COVID-19 variant, omicron, was detected in northern California, less than a week after the World Health Organization deemed it a "variant of concern." The infected individual was ...
Dec 7, 2021
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Scientists at the University of Chicago have come up with an intriguing potential treatment to combat cocaine and alcohol addictions—a skin graft genetically altered to release molecules that curb the craving for those ...
Mar 16, 2022
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For the second time this month, massive plumes of smoke from hundreds of out-of-control Canadian wildfires are polluting much of America's air.
Jul 3, 2023
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New York's JFK airport began strict new health screenings Saturday for travelers arriving from Ebola-hit West African nations, amid growing US fears about importing the deadly virus.
Oct 11, 2014
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Postoperative monitoring of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and a wearable device is feasible and showed moderate ability to discriminate between the days the patients experienced postoperative adverse events and those they ...
Apr 25, 2022
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