Formulating a Prescription to Improve Asthma Care with Technology
Updated: 2012-10-31 14:00:51
Asthma is an extremely common disease, especially among adolescents: Almost 10 percent of children under the age of 17 in the United States have it. It’s also very treatable with inhaled corticosteroids. But, an estimated 50 percent of children don’t take their asthma medications on a regular basis. Ves Dimov, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics [...]

Announcing the 2nd meeting of the Victorian Intensive Care Network on November 13th, featuring Tim Crozier speaking on Critical Care Obstetrics.The post Critical Care Obstetrics in Melbourne appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog.
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Posted by Kasra Trichuris, is an intestinal roundworm, also known as whipworm, that can be transmitted through ingestion of food contaminated with its eggs. The larvae hatch inside the small intestine and complete their life cycle to adults in the cecum. After maturation, which can take about 3 months, the female worm lays thousands of [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a study to make you hit the bed early tonight. Matthew Brady, PhD, associate professor of medicine and vice-chair of the Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition at the University of Chicago, found that not getting enough sleep has a harmful impact on fat cells in body, reducing their ability to absorb insulin by [...]
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