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Monitoring the Diagnostic Dose
The first patient in the UCMC's 256-slice CT scanner, the mummy Meresamun Radiation had a bad reputation to overcome. Known for a long time for killing its discoverer and by frightening...
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King Tut and Mummy Genetics
The big science story of the past 24 hours has been a paper from the Journal of American Medical Association about what caused the death of King Tutankhamun, better known as King Tut, the world’s most...
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Finding a Benefit Inside a Risk
In a perfect world, patients would only have one serious condition at a time that could be treated in isolation. But that’s not the case: when a doctor is considering treatment for one disease, they...
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Unlocking the Universe’s Secrets in the Suburbs
In its sedative normalcy, the Chicago suburban sprawl would seem an unlikely setting for the noble quest of solving the basic laws of nature. But just up Farnsworth Avenue from the outlet mall and the...
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Linkage 2/17: Metaknowledge, iResidents, and Baldness
What the science of science looks like. (From Evans & Foster, Science, 2011) Perhaps the biggest science story of the week took place, oddly enough, on a game show. The victory of an IBM...
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When Smaller is Better for GWAS
As of July 2010, nearly 600 genome-wide association studies of 150 distinct diseases and traits had been published. They revealed hundred of specific genomic locations, each with a relatively small...
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A HIRO in Radiology
Medical imaging has become a crucial tool for diagnosis and clinical research. Imaging services in an academic medical institution like the University of Chicago Medicine are used by dozens of...
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LabBook June 18, 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 (or, occasionally, Monday...
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LabBook October 26, 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...
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What Do You Do With a Seven-Ton Magnet?
When you’re moving something huge, like a seven-ton magnet for an MRI machine, you can’t exactly take the elevator. This fall when workers installed the MRI magnet on the fifth floor of the new Center...
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Focal therapy offers middle ground for some prostate cancer patients
Scott Eggener, MDMen with low-risk prostate cancer, detected early, used to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. They could choose aggressive treatment that stops the cancer but has the potential...
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LabBook April 5, 2013
We’re fired up for the start of the baseball season, and so is Southpaw, pictured here with kids at Woodlawn School kicking off our season-long partnership with the White Sox. (photo by Bruce Powell)...
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LabBook September 20, 2013
White Sox mascot Southpaw hung out with kids in Armour Square Park last weekend at the baseball skills academy to wrap up our season-long Power Up program to encourage kids to stay active and healthy....
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MRI-Guided Procedure Tested As Non-Invasive Study Procedure For Uterine Fibroids
Aytekin Oto and Nathaniel Crump monitor the MRI-guided HIFU procedure with the rest of the team. On April 11, 2013, Kimberly Dull became the first woman in Illinois — and one of the first in the United...
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King Tut and Mummy Genetics
The big science story of the past 24 hours has been a paper from the Journal of American Medical Association about what caused the death of King Tutankhamun, better known as King Tut, the world’s most...
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Finding a Benefit Inside a Risk
In a perfect world, patients would only have one serious condition at a time that could be treated in isolation. But that’s not the case: when a doctor is considering treatment for one disease, they...
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Unlocking the Universe’s Secrets in the Suburbs
In its sedative normalcy, the Chicago suburban sprawl would seem an unlikely setting for the noble quest of solving the basic laws of nature. But just up Farnsworth Avenue from the outlet mall and the...
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Age, Wisdom, Teeth
On November 19, 2013, a team from the University of Chicago Medicine performed an extremely high-resolution CT scan on the skull pictured above. The nearly new 256-slice scanner has been in clinical...
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Doing More With Less: A Radiologist Shares His Expertise in Nigeria
Steffen Sammet (fifth from left) with colleagues at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria Practicing medicine is hard enough under the best circumstances, with state of the art facilities...
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Two University of Chicago scientists named AAAS fellows for 2015
Two distinguished scientists and educators have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to...
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