Tag: Public Health
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Children with Chronic Health Problems Face Greater Challenges at Home
Children with difficult medical issues are more likely to experience social challenges at home, demonstrating the need for additional support and resources for these children in clinical settings.
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Severe COVID-19 Illness Less Frequent In Children
Children with COVID-19 experience severe illness less frequently than adults, but the disease can still be dangerous, according to a recent study.
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Medical Student Helps Distribute PPE Across Chicago
Tricia Pendergrast, a first-year student, helped start GetMePPEChicago, an organization that has distributed more than 60,000 N95 protective masks and other protective personal equipment to healthcare workers around the city.
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Faculty Share Expertise on Continuing COVID-19 Response Efforts
According to several recent editorials published by Feinberg faculty, there are large and complex issues to grapple with, from COVID-19’s devastating impact on African-Americans to maintaining critical care standards in the face of an unprecedented pandemic.
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High Blood Pressure Associated with Cognitive Decline in African American Patients
Higher cumulative blood pressure among African-American patients is a major contributor to their higher risk of dementia, according to a new study.
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Adapting the Education Centered Medical Home to the COVID-19 Crisis
Students are conducting telehealth visits and reaching out to patients at high risk of complications from COVID-19, part of the transition of the Education Centered Medical Home to virtual care.
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Sustaining Community Research Partnerships During COVID-19
The Center for Community Health’s Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) hosted a virtual discussion for participants to share experiences, strategies and challenges about engaging and supporting community-engaged research partners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Center for Health Services and Outcomes Names New Director
Tara Lagu, MD, MPH, associate director of the Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science at Baystate Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has been named director of IPHAM’s Center for Health Services and Outcomes.
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Northwestern Scientists Transform Lab for COVID-19 Testing
A special COVID-19 testing team has been put in place at Northwestern, with the goal of at least quadrupling the number of tests processed at Northwestern Medicine hospitals — from about 90 per day to more than 350 per day — and in the process, greatly reducing test result turnaround times.
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Soulakis Joins IDPH to Fight COVID-19
Nicholas Soulakis, PhD, is taking a leave of absence from the medical school to work as an epidemiologist in the Illinois Department of Public Health Office of Policy, Planning and Statistics.
