Tag Archive | public health
LabBook April 19, 2013
Big data research, biomedical prizes, prosthetic limbs and more in this week’s LabBook.
Harold Pollack on the stalled HIV prevention fight
Harold Pollack wrote an editorial in the Washington Post last week on the stalled HIV prevention fight in the US.
LabBook November 9, 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 October 5, 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 Hyperlocal Approach to Diabetes Disparities
The epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States seems so widespread, so intractable, that only big solutions can make a difference. It feels like we need massive prime-time education campaigns, public fitness initiatives and diet counseling in every school cafeteria and dormitory. And yet for a disease that’s so closely tied to individual […]
LabBook August 24, 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 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 […]
Sexual Taboos, Racial Disparities and the HPV Vaccine
By Matt Wood The human papillomavirus (HPV) is a strikingly common sexually transmitted disease associated with cervical cancer. More than 25 percent of women ages 14-59 are infected with HPV, but it gained greater attention in the United States in 2006 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first vaccine for it. African […]
An Educational ECHO for South Side Clinics
By Matt Wood Video conferencing has crossed the threshold from corporate boardroom to the household in the last few years. Anyone with a Skype account or an iPhone can host their own video chats. Now, a group at the University of Chicago Medicine is using video conferencing as a way to train primary care providers […]
Clean Your Teeth and Check for HIV?
People are used to feeling uncomfortable at the dentist, whether its suffering the drill or trying to make conversation with a gloved finger in your mouth. Given this baseline, perhaps the dentists’ office is the perfect place for another awkward experience: testing for HIV. This intriguing proposal has been made by public health advocates since […]
