All Entries by Sharon Parmet
May 25, 2015
Cure Violence leader honored for public serviceEpidemiology professor Gary Slutkin receives Order of Lincoln
May 21, 2015
National medical leader makes UIC stop on ‘listening tour’His goal: hear concerns about delivery of health care
May 20, 2015
Growing up with smokers doubles smoking risk for adult HispanicsEfforts needed in U.S., Latin America to reduce children’s exposure
May 19, 2015
Inventor of Year creates ‘portable laboratories’Coatings create water-repellant surfaces to test for harmful substances
May 18, 2015
Bigger capsules may be long-sought key to transplanting islet cellsResearch brings cure for type 1 diabetes one step closer
May 12, 2015
Deaths: Curtisteen Steward, public health‘The heart and soul of the School of Public Health, the motor that made all things run’
April 30, 2015
Physician helps launch bone marrow transplant unit in India‘Every patient gets the same treatment, regardless of what they can pay,’ says Damiano Rondelli
April 29, 2015
Fixed cigarette taxes leave smokers less wiggle roomWhen prices are the same for all brands, smoking rates decrease
April 28, 2015
Public health impacts the whole planetSilver Circle winner Linda Rae Murray wants students to think holistically
April 14, 2015
Surveys miss majority of poisonings, underestimate cost by billions$8 billion in hospital costs in Illinois in 2010