The University of Chicago

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Name: The University of Chicago

First Reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 Documents

Sunday Vote On Health-care: Where Is OUR Proper Representation?

Is Stern-World Obama’s World? Health care cost control? No problem: the Teamsters will help run it with the "Coalition to Win" of Andy Stern. Andy Stern’s Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is the result of a bitter split from the AFL-CIO and ... [Published 9 hours ago by Digital Journal]

Entities: Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern, Coalition, Stern's

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 Documents

Loneliness Increases Blood Pressure Levels

A Chicago Health, Aging and Social Relations study by researchers from the University of Chicago involving 229 participants aged 50 to 68 years who took part in the multi-year study of white, black and Latino men and women found, loneliness doesn’t just ... [Published 13 hours ago by Visit Bulgaria]

Entities: Social Relations, The University of Chicago, Hypertension, Kidney, Heart Attack

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 Documents

University of Chicago Medical Center

Leukemia patient runs up against insurance cap: Health reform bill to end limits, but some permitted until 2014

Jim Rudd received the diagnosis on the morning of Feb. 12. The 35-year-old had leukemia and was referred for immediate treatment.A few hours later, he was told he didn't have enough insurance to cover it.Rudd's health insurance plan through his job at ... [Published 14 hours ago by RBC Dain Rauscher]

Entities: Leukaemia, University of Chicago Medical Center, Beech Grove (United States), The University of Chicago

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Giving Plastic Solar Cells an Energy Boost

Solarmer Energy, based in El Monte, CA, is on target to reach 10 percent efficiency by the end of this year, says Yue Wu, the company's managing director and director of research and development. Organic cells will likely need at least that efficiency ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Nanotechnology News]

Entities: Solar Cell, Plastic, The University of Chicago, Wavelength

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Loneliness boosts blood pressure

Loneliness and lack of connection with others can increase the risk of high blood pressure in people age 50 and older, says a new study.It included 229 people, aged 50-68, who answered questions about loneliness and their connections to others. Over four ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Health24]

Entities: The University of Chicago, Hypertension, Mercury

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

American Historical Association

History Association Announces New Director

The American Historical Association said Thursday that James Grossman, vice president for research and education at the Newberry Library and a researcher at the University of Chicago, would replace its long-time executive director, Arnita Jones. Grossman ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Inside Higher Ed]

Entities: Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, The University of Chicago

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

State University of New York

US Expert: Turks Attempted Genocide Against Armenians

(IsraelNN.com) Ronald Suny, a historian and an expert on Armenia with the University of Chicago said that the mass murder of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks was genocide. "There is no doubt that there was, in fact, a state organized, systematic deportation ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Israel National News]

Entities: Genocide, Mass Murder, State University of New York, The University of Chicago

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Faegre & Benson names new managing partner

Faegre & Benson sad Andrew Humphrey will succeed Thomas Morgan as the Minneapolis law firms managing partner. The move was effective March 1, the company said in a press release Monday.Humphrey joined the firm in 1987, and has been an elected member of ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Biz Journals]

Entities: Faegre & Benson LLP, Thomas Morgan, Minneapolis (Minnesota, United States), University of Chicago Law School, The University of Chicago

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

NASA Weather Pioneer Joanne Simpson Passes

Dr. Joanne Simpson, one of NASA's leading weather scientists of the past 30 years, and a world-renowned atmospheric scientist, died on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at George Washington University Hospital, in Washington.Until her recent retirement, Simpson ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by NASA]

Entities: Joanne Simpson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Meteorology

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Minding Your Business: Encouraging to startups

8 firms selected for mentoring program at entrepreneurial centerA team of Chicago business boosters is rooting for Avi Stopper and his startup, CaptainU.The company, which offers Web-based software to help high school athletes make college sports teams, ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Chicago Tribune]

Entities: Startup, Bob Gillespie, Susan Thompson, Entrepreneur

First Reported Mar 14 2010 - Updated Mar 14 2010 - 1 Documents

Our land and souls need a woman's touch

Today, Mother's Day, Louis Jacob says there's nothing like mothers to put the country, and the Church, back on trackShareOne of the things that most men realise at a very early age is that, when you really want a problem solved, and properly, you ask ... [Published Mar 14 2010 by Irish Independent]

Entities: Roman Catholic Church, The University of Chicago, Testosterone

First Reported Mar 14 2010 - Updated Mar 14 2010 - 1 Documents

Miscommunication Common During Patient Hand-offs in Hospital

The most important information is not fully conveyed in a majority of patient hand-offs, even as physicians rate their communication as successful, a new study has found.The research, published by University of Chicago researchers in the March issue of ... [Published Mar 14 2010 by MedIndia]

Entities: The University of Chicago, University of Chicago Medical Center, University Of Chicago, Pediatrics

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...party" trying to help creditors recover money, said Raymond Ball, an accounting professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. "One of the ways to do that is to sue accounting firms. So the examiner obviously puts a stronger light on it."

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