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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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,...
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Managing the “Daily-ness” of Diabetes Through Text Messages
Managing diabetes, both type 1 and type 2, takes daily, if not hourly, vigilance: checking blood sugar, taking medications or the right amount of insulin, thinking about what foods to eat. Even people...
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Texting Improves Diabetes Management, Lowers Health Costs Study Finds
Monica Peek, MD, (right) consults with patient Patrece Myles about a program at UChicago Medicine that sends text message reminders to help patients manage diabetes. Results of a program to send text...
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New study sheds more light on the health status of Chicago’s South Side
Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, MAPP, principal investigator of the University of Chicago Medicine South Side Health & Vitality Studies discusses new findings on health, technology use and awareness of...
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Two University of Chicago physicians elected to National Academy of Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine today announced that University of Chicago physicians Melissa Lynn Gilliam, MD, MPH, and David Owen Meltzer, MD, PhD, have been elected to membership in the Academy....
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UChicago and Argonne join the Precision Medicine Initiative with microbiome...
President Obama discusses the Precision Medicine Initiative in 2015 (Photo: the White House) In his 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative, a...
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Think big, start local: Innovative solutions to improve care on the South...
Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH, and David Meltzer, MD, PhD (Photo by Nancy Wong) How do you change systems? Strengthen communities? Empower the most vulnerable individuals? For University of Chicago Medicine...
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Changing the game on teen health
Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH, is the Ellen H. Block Professor in Health Justice in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics, chief of the Section of Family Planning and Contraceptive...
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A laboratory to call his own
David Meltzer, PhD’92, MD’93, is the Fanny L. Pritzker Professor of Medicine, chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine, professor in the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and...
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Health Lab: An incubator for urban health
University of Chicago Medicine physician Grace E. Berry, MD, above left, and medical assistant LaDonna White assess a patient as part of the Comprehensive Care Physician (CCP) Model. (Photo by Joel...
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