Tag Archive | Religion
LabBook February 22, 2013
Futuristic supply rooms, off label chemotherapy and more in this week’s special Move Day edition of LabBook
Questions about accommodating the religious beliefs of a patient? There’s an app for that
Elsevier, the publisher of scholarly and medical journals, has produced an app for the iPhone and iPad called “Care of Muslim Patients – A Practical Guide.” It’s a reference guide to help doctors accommodate Islamic beliefs and cultural practices, such as advising patients who are fasting during Ramadan. Aasim Padela, MD, who is Director of […]
LabBook June 8, 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 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. […]
No Senioritis Here: Pritzker Senior Scientific Session 2012
By Rob Mitchum As the weather warms and the flowers bloom in Chicago, it’s a sign that convocation and various other end-of-the-year events are approaching. One springtime tradition for the Pritzker School of Medicine is the annual Senior Scientific Session, where students on the verge of receiving their medical degrees discuss the research project they […]
Finding the Muslim View on Medicine
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious minority in the United States, with over 7 million Americans declaring themselves as followers of Islam and more than 2,000 mosques nationwide. But in spite of the numbers, little data has been collected about American Muslims’ beliefs about health and disease, or their experience in the U.S. health care system. […]
Spiritual Benefits at the Bedside
A patient in the hospital receives a long line of visitors, from physicians to nurses to medical students to other staff members. The conversations with most of these personnel tends to be mostly business – answering clinical questions or following instructions, with maybe a little bit of small talk squeezed in between temperature measurements and […]
Linkage 4/8: Exciting Bumps, Shutdown Ripples
In physics, there’s nothing better than an unexpected result. Wednesday, Fermilab scientists unveiled the graph at left and caused figurative rioting in the streets of the physics community, confirming months of rumors about an exciting new result from the suburban Chicago facility (You can watch video of the presentation here). It’s a big score in […]
Linkage 3/25: Giant Bunnies, Religious Obesity, and Kin Selection Kerfuffle
Just in time for Easter, a team of scientists digging on a Spanish island have discovered the fossils of a prehistoric rabbit of unusual size: 26 pounds, more than six times the size of today’s bunnies. Called Nuralagus rex – the “king of the hares” – the big guy definitely did not hop when it […]
