Tag Archive | urban health
Managing the “Daily-ness” of Diabetes Through Text Messages
After six months of running a program to send text message reminders to patients with diabetes, Shantanu Nundy and his colleagues are learning about how mobile technologies can be used to help patients manage chronic diseases.
LabBook October 19, 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. LAST […]
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 […]
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 […]
(NOT) Playing Games with Sexual Health
By Dianna Douglas Maybe you’re the type of person to see a tiny nonsensical phrase in the credits of a movie and actually dig into it online. Be careful—you might find yourself sucked into a mystery story. Over the course of a week, you get a text message from someone you’ve been mindlessly Googling, you […]
Texting: A Doctor in Your Pocket?
Texting has grown from technological fad to a primary route of communication popular around the world. With cell phones in the pockets of people of all incomes and ages, the quick, no-frills conversations enabled by texting have made almost everyone more proficient with their thumbs. Due to such impressive ubiquity, people in health care are […]
Better Neighborhood, Better Health
Location, location, location. The three most important words in real estate turn out to be significant for health as well. In today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a research team based at the University of Chicago show that low-income women with children who moved from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experienced notable long-term […]
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 […]
Cultural Custom-Fitting to Combat Obesity
Countless campaigns have been launched to steer schoolchildren toward healthy habits, and yet rates of childhood obesity and diabetes continue to soar. Celebrity endorsements, catchy catchphrases, and food pyramid redesigns have struggled to combat the allure of fast food and television in the battle for child health in the United States. But with childhood obesity […]
Fighting Disparities During Segregation
Reducing health disparities in the United States has been a top priority for our health care system in these early years of the 21st century. But efforts to narrow the health gap between black and white patients go much farther back, to the start of the previous century when the first African-Americans were graduating from […]
