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Rush, Lurie, UChicago Medicine, UIC and Planned Parenthood team up on HIV study

Rush, Lurie, UChicago Medicine, UIC and Planned Parenthood team up on HIV study

by | Apr 11, 2024 | , , | 0

The National Institutes of Health awarded a five-year, $3 million research grant to Rush, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, University of Chicago Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago and Planned Parenthood of Illinois to study ways to increase the use of medications to prevent new HIV infections among Black cisgender women.
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Pritzker signs executive order boosting access to sickle cell disease treatments

Pritzker signs executive order boosting access to sickle cell disease treatments

by | Mar 19, 2024 | , | 0

Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order Monday tasking the Department of Healthcare and Family Services with creating Medicaid financing models for expensive therapies that treat sickle cell disease, as well as other new high-cost drugs and treatments.
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Northwestern researchers look to address chemo-resistant ovarian tumors

Northwestern researchers look to address chemo-resistant ovarian tumors

by | Feb 29, 2024 | , | 0

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine are working on a treatment they say could use cancer cells’ “hunger for cholesterol” to address the issue of chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer.
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