Tag Archive | Linkage
Linkage 8/26: Abortion Access, Bronchial Thermoplasty & Facebook
Since the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, abortion has been a woman’s legal right (with ever-changing state-specific restrictions) in the United States. But one factor often trumps the legal status of abortion: access. Though abortion training is required for medical residents studying to become obstetrician-gynecologists, physicians are not required to perform the procedure or […]
Linkage 8/19: 1200 Patients, Stressed-Out Finches
The future of genetic medicine comes in many flavors, from the discovery of the rare mutations responsible for uncommon diseases to the cataloging of variants that may be responsible for common diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes. A segment from last night’s ABC 7 Chicago news focused on both aspects of this potential, […]
Linkage 8/12: Physicians of Tomorrow & Molecular Furniture
Medical school isn’t cheap. Today, medical students graduate with an average debt over $155,000, and the need to pay off those mortgage-sized loans drives many a young doctor away from more modestly compensated but sorely needed fields such as primary care and family medicine. To alleviate this financial pressure, many organizations have started scholarships to […]
Linkage 7/29: Debt & Doctors, New Hearts, and Brain Models
One of the sectors closely monitoring the debt debate in Washington is the medical world, where hospitals, physicians, and patients anxiously await the final agreement on cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Of particular concern to academic medical centers [pdf] are proposed cuts to graduate medical education, funding used to pay the salary of residents and […]
Linkage 7/22: Smarter Dosing and Fossil Diaries
A large portion of medical research is dedicated to designing and testing new and better drugs for treating disease. But what if we could improve treatments with the drugs we already have – and potentially cut costs at the same time? That’s the proposal made in an editorial this week in the Journal of the […]
Linkage 7/15: Chest Scan Caution & Under the Influence of Flags
Cancer used to be a black box, a disease that physicians could only monitor through surgical biopsies and indirect measures. But for the last thirty years, the use of computed tomography imaging, better known as CT scans, has allowed oncologists and cancer researchers to keep close watch on the growth or shrinkage of a tumor […]
Linkage 7/8: Eyes on the Prizes and More
At 1:30 pm, on Monday, December 12, at its Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, The American Society of Hematology will recognize Janet Rowley of the University of Chicago Medical Center, and Brian Druker of Oregon Health & Science University, with the 2011 Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize for their significant advances in the […]
Linkage 7/1: How to Do Heart Surgery, A Visit from Delilah, & More
Popular Mechanics typically offers step-by-step guides for changing your oil or building a bookcase. But in a recent feature they seriously upped the instructional ante with an “Extreme How-To” – How to Perform Open Heart Surgery. The expert chosen to guide their readers through this don’t-try-this-at-home process was Medical Center cardiac and thoracic surgeons Jai […]
Linkage 6/17: Remembering Dr. Nachman & Neuroprosthetics
Around the pediatric cancer wards at Comer Children’s Hospital, he was known by the rhyming nickname of “Doc Nach” and for delighting patients with his Mickey Mouse watch. On a ward where a smiling face goes a long way, Dr. James Nachman was always happy to provide a cheerful presence. Behind the scenes, he was […]
Linkage 6/3: Quantrell Award and Gloopy Transplants
Teaching with Treadmills Inside the Biological Sciences Learning Center on the Medical Center campus is a laboratory that looks more like a gymnasium. Six state-of-the-art treadmills and six futuristic exercise bikes sit around the room, each connected to a computer alongside modified oxygen masks and suction cup sensors. Instead of dissecting frogs or mixing chemicals, […]
