Tag Archive | gastrointestinal
LabBook October 26, 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 […]
LabBook August 17, 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 […]
A Warning for Childhood Cancer Survivors
As the hundreds of people at last weekend’s Cancer Survivors Day event could attest, overcoming cancer is a hard-earned victory. Unfortunately, double jeopardy laws don’t apply to cancer, and a patient who has beaten the disease once must remain vigilant about its potential return. A new study of people who survived cancer during their childhood […]
Podcast Episode 0.2: Stretching, Whipple at 90, NIH Cuts
Welcome to pilot episode 2 of our Medical Center research news podcast. We’re keeping the water wings on for now as we continue to refine the format and discover all the technical struggles inherent in podcasting, but please do listen and give us feedback on how we’re doing – and if you have good ideas […]
Crowdsourcing the Diagnosis
Regular readers of the New York Times Magazine are familiar with Diagnosis, Dr. Lisa Sanders’ long-running column of medical mysteries. With false leads, twists, and surprise endings, these hospital narratives are typically as suspenseful as a Raymond Carver story, or perhaps more appropriately, an episode of House. The subject matter of these mysteries are usually […]
