Medical Center neurosurgery team receives high ranking from University HealthSystem Consortium in mortality
The University of Chicago's neurosurgery service risk adjusted mortality rate was ranked second among 105 academic medical centers, behind only one other academic medical center, in the University HealthSystem Consortium's (UHC) Clinical Outcomes Report for July 2008 through June 2009.
University of Chicago receives $42 million in stimulus funds for biological and medical research
Researchers at the University of Chicago have been awarded more than $42 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health, part of a $5 billion boost for medical research from the federal economic stimulus package.
Social isolation worsens cancer
Using mice as a model to study human breast cancer, researchers have demonstrated that a negative social environment (in this case, isolation) causes increased tumor growth. The work shows--for the first time--that social isolation is associated with altered gene expression in mouse mammary glands, and that these changes are accompanied by larger tumors.
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