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Congratulations Mai Pho, MD, MPH
Mai Tuyet Pho, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, has been awarded a UG3 from NIDA/CDC/SAMHSA to study the opioid crisis, along with Hepatitis C and HIV in the rural southern Illinois Delta Region. This is a...
ADA Revises Guidelines for Hypertension and Diabetes
The American Diabetes Association has published an update of its 2003 position statement on hypertension and diabetes in the September 2017 issue of Diabetes Care. Led by George Bakris, MD of the University of Chicago Section of Endocrinology, and Director of the ASH...
Walgreens Launches Center for Health & Wellbeing Research
Walgreens has announced the creation of the Center for Health & Wellbeing Research. In doing so, Walgreens has partnered with several academic institutions, including Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Scripps...