All trauma

Lee Friedman

February 28, 2017

Gunshot victims in Cook County ‘undertriaged’ to community hospitals

Patients are more likely to live on the south and west sides of county

Liza Suarez and Jaleel K. Abdul-Adil

November 11, 2016

Urban Youth Trauma Center to expand training, services under new grant

Viewing behavioral problems through the ‘trauma lens’

Beer glass

June 5, 2014

Alcohol may protect trauma patients from later complications

Intoxication seems to have ‘substantial protective effect’

November 19, 2012

Alcohol Provides Protective Effect, Reduces Mortality Substantially After Injury

Injured patients were less likely to die in the hospital if they had alcohol in their blood, according to a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health — and the more alcohol, the more likely they were to survive.