Bringing more healthcare services to Southwest Side

Sep 28, 2021 3:45 pm

With approval from the Board of Trustees to purchase a recently closed clinical building at 5525 S. Pulaski Road, the UIC and UI Health will move forward with plans to increase access to comprehensive health care in Chicago’s Gage Park and West Elsdon communities.

Stockton Mayer, department of medicine, infectious diseases

Healthcare leaders protect homeless during pandemic

Sep 9, 2020 3:15 pm

Chicago nonprofits, shelters, city and healthcare leaders, including UI Health, have come together to address the problems those experiencing homelessness are facing while protecting public health.

Gov. Pritzker commits $500 million to IIN and DPI

Feb 12, 2020 2:45 pm

The State of Illinois is moving forward with $500 million in capital funding for the University of Illinois System’s Illinois Innovation Network and Discovery Partners Institute – a network of research and innovation hubs that will serve as a magnet for technology and talent. More...

Grant to foster health equity among Chicago youth

Aug 25, 2021 9:45 am

A new grant will help reduce disparities in healthcare through a unique new training program led by Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s Ruby Mendenhall.

Rockford professors on cutting edge with Parkinson's research

Mar 8, 2022 9:45 am

Researchers at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford have discovered what they describe as promising results in their search for a treatment to stop nerve cell degeneration that occurs in disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and hereditary spastic paraplegia.

Animated sad Black woman with briefcase walks into kitchen where sad Black man is sitting looking at a job site on computer

Helping prevent postpartum depression in Black women

Jun 2, 2021 12:45 pm

The Sunnyside for Moms app created by researchers at University of Illinois Chicago aims to help pregnant women of color who are shoing signs of depression but haven't reached the point of clinical depression.

Awards recognize UIUC excellence in public engagement

Jul 10, 2020 8:45 am

The Campus Awards for Excellence in Public Engagement spotlight faculty members and staff at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who have consistently applied their knowledge and expertise to issues for the public good.

Donation to help DPI develop more inclusive tech talent

Dec 15, 2020 1:15 pm

A $10 million gift will establish the Pritzker Tech Talent Labs at DPI, which will help Illinois workers better adapt to a challenging and quickly changing economy, and help thousands of women and people of color secure high-paying tech jobs.

U of I System receives FDA authorization for covidSHIELD test process

Mar 1, 2021 1:15 pm

The University of Illinois System received emergency use authorization (EUA) today from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for covidSHIELD, its innovative saliva-based COVID-19 test that was used on the U of I campuses to hold the virus in check by utilizing widespread testing with rapid results.

Black male being vaccinated by white male

Illinois Extension contributes to vaccination awareness effort in state

Jul 19, 2021 10:15 am

A new partnership is empowering land-grant universities across the country to strengthen immunization education with a special focus on adult vaccine hesitancy around both COVID-19 and other adult vaccines.

Improving health and wellness in urban communities

Jul 28, 2021 2:45 pm

Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare is partnering with the University of Illinois Chicago to establish the Community Health Advocacy (CHA) applied research program to address health and wellness challenges in urban communities.

Instructors benefit from UIS course on teaching online

Jul 29, 2020 2:00 pm

The University of Illinois Springfield ION Professional eLearning Program’s Overview of Online Instruction course is helping Illinois higher education professors and K-12 teachers to better teach online during the pandemic.

female student in cap and gown on UIUC campus

Preparing students for medical careers through human nutrition program

Nov 17, 2021 9:15 am

Lauren Moy forged her path to the UIC College of Pharmacy by way of an undergraduate human nutrition concentration at the College of ACES at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

CRISPR-Cas13 targets proteins causing ALS, Huntington's disease in mice

Jan 21, 2022 2:00 pm

A new study by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers used a targeted CRISPR technique in the central nervous systems of mice to turn off production of mutant proteins that can cause ALS and Huntington’s disease.

UIS and ILBCF host webinar on equitable and inclusive healthcare

Feb 9, 2022 8:00 am

The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation (ILBCF) and the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) will convene its fifth speaker series session, with the latest event focused on equity and inclusion in our health care system in Illinois.

Studying access to early childhood education in Illinois

Feb 10, 2020 2:45 pm

UIC researchers, supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will examine feedback from families who are living with the effects of their child’s expulsion. More...

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UIC to research long COVID-19 with $22 million from NIH

Apr 7, 2022 10:15 am

A team of University of Illinois Chicago researchers is projected to receive approximately $22 million from the National Institutes of Health over four years to research long COVID-19.

UIC leads largest nationwide effort to protect the monarch butterfly

May 5, 2020 9:45 am

Since 2017, the University of Illinois at Chicago has partnered with more than 45 energy companies and transportation agencies to develop the first nationwide Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances to engage in important conservation actions to protect the monarch butterfly.

SHIELD Illinois opens two additional free COVID testing sites in Chicago

May 26, 2022 8:00 am

SHIELD Illinois opened two additional free community testing sites in Chicago this month, bringing its total number of locations statewide to 44. These newly opened community sites increase access to COVID testing in underserved communities.

Working to improve rural healthcare

Oct 14, 2021 8:45 am

UIC Medicine students in the rural healthcare program in Rockford are preparing to make a difference in healthcare in rural communities in Illinois and across the country.

UIC partners with IDHFS for plan to transform healthcare

Nov 23, 2021 12:45 pm

The UIC School of Public Health is working with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services on a plan to tackle healthcare disparities across the state.

Man with handlebar mustache in office with test tubes

Researchers identify biomarker for depression

Jan 5, 2022 1:30 pm

Researchers led by Mark Rasenick, University of Illinois Chicago distinguished professor of physiology and biophysics and psychiatry, have identified a biomarker in human platelets that tracks the extent of depression.

Covered foil tins of food stacked on rolling cart

UIC recognized for recovering food for homeless

Jan 8, 2021 1:00 pm

In the fall of 2020, volunteers with UIC’s Food Recovery Network (FRN) chapter collected 7,589 pounds of food and donated it to area homeless shelters. UIC has been recognized for the achievement of the most recovered pounds by any FRN chapter nationwide in the Fall of 2020.

Extension efforts add 64,000 pounds of fresh produce to central Illinois tables

Jan 10, 2022 3:15 pm

With the enthusiastic support of the growers and buyers at the Arthur Produce Auction, University of Illinois Extension has provided more than 116,000 pounds of fresh produce to central Illinois food pantries in three years.

Center dedicated to improving worker health awarded $7 million

Jan 10, 2022 3:30 pm

Public health experts at UIC will continue efforts to improve the health of low-wage workers, thanks to a five-year, $7 million grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

UIC Nursing clinic improves sexual health in LGBTQ+ community

Jan 21, 2022 3:00 pm

One year after opening, a UIC College of Nursing and UI Health clinic based at Center on Halsted has brought HIV prevention and STI treatment services to more than 100 of the center’s LGBTQ+ community members.

‘Decoy’ protein works against multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants

Jan 21, 2022 3:00 pm

Researchers from UIC and UIUC have collaborated to develop a new drug treatment to prevent death and lung damage in COVID-19 patients. Early model studies show it may be very effective.

New position helps sharpen UI Health's focus on community health equity

Jan 28, 2022 9:45 am

Rani Morrison, chief diversity and community health equity officer at UI Health recently spoke to Healthcare Innovation about patient engagement and data gathering efforts under way.

shadow of adults holding hands with child in the city

OSF & UIC award Community Health Advocacy grants

Feb 2, 2022 9:30 am

OSF HealthCare is partnering with UIC to award eight grants totaling more than $700,000 to support projects that remove barriers to care, particularly in low-income, under-resourced communities; enhance health and wellness education, and leverage technology to improve training and community outreach.

In person or over Zoom, UIC students help the community

Feb 3, 2021 9:00 am

Nearly 200 UIC students spent their day off volunteering in the Chicago community for the MLK Day of Service.

Carle Illinois professor awarded prize to advance vaccine research

Feb 9, 2022 8:00 am

UIUC biochemistry professor Nicholas Wu has been recognized with a Michelson Prize: Next Generation Grant. He will be awarded $150,000 to enable his high-impact ideas to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy.

UIS child protection training academy simulation house

Preventing child fatalities and training the workforce

Feb 10, 2021 1:45 pm

The UIS Child Protection Training Academy has trained close to 1,000 DCFS child protection investigators over the last five years. The model has been expanded to Chicago and will soon be replicated at Southern Illinois University.

UI Health leads Chicago in providing vaccines for phase 1B

Feb 10, 2021 9:15 am

The first day it opened a community COVID-19 vaccination site UIC and UI Health administered more than 1,600 shots to phase 1A and phase 1B eligible people, representing nearly a quarter of all vaccine doses (23%) distributed in Chicago on that day.

Collaboration brings innovative healthcare to the South Side

Feb 14, 2022 3:15 pm

Faculty and students at the UIC College of Nursing have partnered with the Southside Health Advocacy Resource Partnership to improve the health of South Side Chicago communities.

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Oncology dietitians rarely ask cancer patients about food insecurity, study finds

Feb 14, 2022 3:15 pm

Although studies suggest that many cancer patients experience food insecurity, few oncology dietitians routinely ask them if they are having problems affording or obtaining food, new UIUC research has found.

U of I at Urbana-Champaign helping families across the state

Feb 18, 2020 2:45 pm

Here's just 10 ways the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is helping kids and families across the state. More...

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Lab results show promise for future pancreatic cancer treatment

Feb 18, 2022 1:00 pm

University of Illinois Chicago researchers have developed a compound that may one day offer hope for pancreatic cancer treatment.

App developed to detect perinatal depression in mothers of color

Feb 23, 2022 9:30 am

An innovative app from UIC combines cutting edge technology, enhanced mental health outreach efforts and new opportunities to identify blood biomarkers for depression in an effort to help mothers of color from low-income communities identify, manage and treat perinatal depression at no cost.

New insight into links between Alzheimer's Disease and hearing loss

Mar 2, 2022 10:45 am

Researchers at Carle Illinois College of Medicine have uncovered new evidence about hearing loss in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The work could eventually lead to earlier intervention and new treatment strategies to delay cognitive decline.

Lorraine Brown with arms in air and mask on celebrating vaccination

UIC works with Chicago to deliver vaccinations to city's most vulnerable

Mar 16, 2021 10:00 am

The University of Illinois Chicago along with Protect Chicago Plus have partnered to provide 1,000 COVID-19 vaccines to residents in the Englewood neighborhood, with plans to expand to other city areas with vulnerable populations

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Volunteers help Chicago residents without internet connect to COVID-19 vaccines

Mar 23, 2021 10:30 am

A UIC computer science student created a volunteer group on Facebook aimed at helping individuals from Chicago's Black and brown communities book vaccine appointments online.

Health equity initiatives receive funding from the American Cancer Society

Mar 23, 2022 9:30 am

UIC has received a $4 million, four-year grant from the American Cancer Society to establish a solutions-oriented consortium of health care researchers and clinicians charged with improving outcomes in communities disproportionately affected by cancer.

Liliane Windsor in coat and scarf outdoors

Project helps East St. Louis residents overcome barriers to COVID-19 testing, vaccination

Mar 23, 2022 9:30 am

A project co-led by UIUC that is underway in East St. Louis, Illinois, is investigating strategies for overcoming barriers to COVID-19 testing and vaccination among more than 548 medically and socially vulnerable residents of St. Clair County.

Better outcomes for Black and Latinx asthma patients

Mar 23, 2022 9:30 am

UIC was part of a study which found that when Black or Latinx asthma patients were instructed to use inhaled corticosteroids, their risk of severe exacerbation was reduced by 15%.

Team identifies compound with potent antiseizure effects

Mar 23, 2022 9:45 am

UIUC researchers studying epileptic seizures of the temporal lobe – the most common type of epilepsy – discovered a compound that reduces seizures in the hippocampus, a brain region where many such seizures originate.

Scientists in the lab in white coats processing samples

Saliva test being expanded in Champaign-Urbana community

Mar 24, 2021 10:15 am

OSF HealthCare announced a new partnership with the University of Illinois Tuesday that will expand the U of I’s saliva-based COVID-19 test into the broader Champaign-Urbana community.

SMS intervention for Type 2 diabetes in underserved communities

Apr 7, 2022 10:00 am

A team of UIC experts in Rockford, Illinois, will launch and study a text message-based intervention for Type 2 diabetes in underserved communities, thanks to a $30,000 grant award from the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois’ Dr. Louis and Violet Rubin Fund. 

UIUC scientist developing drug delivery method with bioengineered microbes

Apr 7, 2022 10:15 am

An Illinois research team is developing a method of producing and delivering monoclonal antibody treatments for breast cancer through commensal microbes in the gut. If successful, this approach could increase accessibility and dramatically decrease the cost of monoclonal antibodies.

New treatment for pulmonary fibrosis using sugar-coated nanoparticles

Apr 7, 2022 10:15 am

UIC scientists have developed a treatment for pulmonary fibrosis by using nanoparticles coated in mannose — a type of sugar — to stop a population of lung cells called macrophages that contribute to lung tissue scarring.

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K-12 Shield Playbook offers guidance for reopening schools

Apr 15, 2021 12:15 pm

A new resource is available to help guide teachers and school administrators as they reopen schools amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, assembled by researchers and experts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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