Policy
We Know the Least About the Largest Growing Group of Diabetics
At least 50% of people 65 years old and over have diabetes or pre-diabetes, and the situation is expected to get worse. Not only are obesity rates rising, but the problem is compounded by the increasing insulin resistance and decrease in pancreatic islet function that develop as someone ages. Older adults with type 2 diabetes […]
Fairness and Efficiency: Designing a Better Kidney Allocation System
Each year approximately 11,000 people receive kidney transplants from deceased donors, but nearly 100,000 people are on the waiting list for a deceased donor kidney. This means that people with end-stage renal disease who desperately need a new kidney can spend years on dialysis, waiting for a transplant. For the past seven years, the United […]
The Organizational Clout to Fight Health Disparities
When it comes to the hard work of narrowing health disparities in the United States, the heavy lifting is most often done by those at the front lines of medicine. Clinics that treat underserved populations, researchers with ideas about how to improve health care access, or hospitals that support such programs are the primary forces […]
LabBook July 20, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THE […]
LabBook June 29, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
The Price Tag on a Patient-Centered Medical Home
Everyone in the health care world has one eye on Washington this week, as the Supreme Court is expected to finally hand down their ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Commonly known as the “health care reform bill” or “Obamacare,” depending on your political leanings, the legislation contains both immediate changes (the […]
AHA + CFD + NATO = STEMI
“Time is muscle,” cardiologists say. When someone has a heart attack, they don’t have much time. The longer blood flow through a coronary artery is blocked, the more heart muscle dies, and delays can mean permanent heart damage or death. Patients having a severe heart attack need to get to a hospital, the right hospital, […]
A Religious Approach to Health Disparities
In America, the issue of health disparities is often considered as a matter of black and white…and Hispanic and Asian-American, and so on. Most of the time, U.S. populations are sliced into categories of race and ethnicity so that researchers can compare health measures and determine culturally relevant interventions where needed. But racial identity is […]
LabBook June 1, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our new weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. […]
A Crack in the Safe of Genomic Studies
As genotyping becomes cheaper and more routine, the optimism about the medical benefits is laced with paranoia about genetic privacy. Personal genetics businesses promise the tighest security with their customers’ DNA test results, electronic medical records build in layers of encryption and protection, and the 2008 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act forbids insurance companies and employers […]
