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Antidepressant-suicide link in youths absent in new analysis
February 6, 2012 In 2004, concerns about antidepressant drugs increasing suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young patients prompted the FDA to issue a rare “black box warning.” Now, a new analysis of clinical trial data finds that treatment with the antidepressant fluoxetine did not increase — or decrease — suicidality in children compared to placebo treatment. An analysis built on data from 41 trials and more than 9,000 patients also found that two different popular antidepressant drugs were effective at reducing suicidal behavior and depressive symptoms in adult and geriatric patients.
Do patients pay when they leave against medical advice?
February 3, 2012 There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision. Being saddled with the full cost of their hospital stay, however, is not one of them.
Lung transplant system often skips over those most in need
January 31, 2012 The current system for allocating donated lungs based on proximity and not on need appears to decrease the potential benefits of lung transplantation and increase the number of patients who die waiting, researchers said at an annual meeting of thoracic surgeons in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Using data provided by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), study author Mark J.
Janet Rowley, MD, to receive Japan Prize for her role in the development of targeted cancer therapy
January 25, 2012 Janet Davison Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, will share the 2012 Japan Prize for Healthcare and Medical Technology with Brian J. Druker, MD, from the Oregon Health and Science University, and Nicholas B.
Study: Communicating health risk is a risky task for FDA
January 19, 2012 The impact of efforts by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to notify the general public and health care providers about unanticipated risks from approved medications has been “varied and unpredictable,” according to a systematic review of published studies about FDA warnings and alerts over the last 20 years.
University of Chicago Medicine looks ahead to new brand, new hospital
January 23, 2012 The University of Chicago Medical Center, one of the leading academic medical institutions in the country, is introducing a new brand as it prepares to open a modern 10-story hospital on its South Side campus next January. The launch of the University of Chicago Medicine marks a new era in the institution’s decades-long history as it seeks to strengthen the connection between the internationally renowned University of Chicago and its clinical programs.
Four faculty members in Pritzker, BSD receive named appointments
January 17, 2012 Four members of the faculty in the Biological Sciences Division — Habibul Ahsan, Peter Angelos, David Song and Jerrold Turner — have received named professorships. Habibul Ahsan, MD, MMedSc, professor in the departments of health studies, human genetics and medicine, director of the Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention at the University of Chicago Medical Center and associate director of the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named a Louis Block Professor.
Neural balls and strikes: where categories live in the brain
January 16, 2012 Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire must instantaneously categorize a fast-moving pitch as a ball or a strike. In new research from the University of Chicago, scientists have pinpointed an area in the brain where these kinds of visual categories are encoded.
Top Japanese scientist leaving government post to move to the University of Chicago Medical Center
January 9, 2012 Yusuke Nakamura, MD, PhD, Secretary General in the Japanese Government’s Office of Medical Innovation and a professor of molecular medicine at Tokyo University’s Human Genome Center, has stepped down from his leadership position in the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat. He will join the faculty at the University of Chicago in April 2012.
Evolution of complexity recreated using "molecular time travel"
January 9, 2012 Much of what living cells do is carried out by “molecular machines” — physical complexes of specialized proteins working together to carry out some biological function. How the minute steps of evolution produced these constructions has long puzzled scientists, and provided a favorite target for creationists.
