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March 13, 2024

Media Advisory: March 15 is Match Day at UIC

Fourth-year medical students will learn where they have been accepted for residency training

A woman practices CPR on a dummy as others look on and offer guidance.

March 7, 2024

Chicagoans are dying from cardiac arrest outside the hospital at increasingly younger ages 

The biggest decrease in age happened among Black men

March 6, 2024

UIC-led effort to protect the monarch butterfly surpasses 50 industry partners

Approximately 915,000 acres will be managed as monarch habitats across 41 states

One woman and two men pose in a laboratory.

February 15, 2024

UIC research helps create new antibiotic that evades bacterial resistance 

New drug inspired by images that captured how bacteria block antibiotic activity

UIC Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum

February 15, 2024

Media Advisory: Dr. Anthony Fauci to visit UIC

Inaugural Chair Chats event features Dr. Anthony Fauci in conversation with Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda

Treatment with ISRIB, a small molecule inhibitor

February 8, 2024

Clues to cancer drug’s deadly side effects could make it safer 

For some leukemia patients, their only treatment option carries a risk of heart failure

Pink Glove Dance Competition participants

January 29, 2024

Breast cancer test may make bad chemotherapy recommendations for Black patients 

Test may underestimate the benefit of chemotherapy for Black women, especially those who are young

January 24, 2024

Ultrasounds can help predict the risk of preterm births, new research shows 

This is the first method for assessing risk in first-time pregnancies

Physician and young patient

January 17, 2024

How to increase health equity among children  

Researchers offer policy solutions to counter structural racism affecting children’s health

January 17, 2024

Brush biopsy enables early detection of oral cancer without surgery

A new test invented by UIC researchers allows dentists to screen for oral cancer with a simple brush