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Brian Druker (L), professor and director of Oregon Health and Science University Knight Cancer Institute shakes hands with Japanese Emperor Akihito as he received the Japan Prize at the awarding ceremony in Tokyo on April 25, 2012. Druker, Janet Rowley, Blum-Riese distinguished service professor of medicine, University of Chicago and Co-founder and Director of Blueprint Medicines Nicholas Lydon received the award for their achievement in the development of a new therapeutic drug targeting cancer-specific molecules.
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In that succinct comment, the former professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago made three important and accurate observations about the Supreme Court majority’s opinion ... First, it did reverse a century of law; second, it did authorize unlimited election-related expenditures by America’s most powerful interests; and, third, the logic of the opinion extends to money spent by foreign entities.
Whitaker’s hospital is the same one that paid first lady Michelle Obama $316,962 a year to handle community affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center while her husband served in the U.S. Senate.
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Opinion: Make new investments prove safety
of "The Executive Unbound: After the Madison Republic." Glen Weyl is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago . This is from Bloomberg News . Mary Schapiro , chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission , said in February the Read more »
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Romney seeks primary-fight breaking point in Ill.
plus family equals freedom in America," Santorum said.Romney, meanwhile, campaigned in the city where Obama taught law at the University of Chicago and where the president has his national campaign headquarters. Avoiding any reference to Republican opponents, Read more »
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Romney targets Obama in speech on economic freedom
taxes to speed things up.Romney focused on Obama and his own plan to expand economic freedom in a speech at the University of Chicago , a day before Illinois holds the GOP 's latest high-profile presidential primary. Obama was a lecturer at the same college Read more »
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Giving Docs iPads Might Boost Patient Care
packed into tightly regulated hours," study first author Dr. Bhakti Patel, a pulmonary critical care fellow, said in a University of Chicago Medicine news release. "They spend much of their time completing documentation and updating patient charts. This study Read more »
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Video: Front Edge of Recession?
Discussing whether it's time for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to pump in some new QE3 liquidity into the economy, with Randy Kroszner, University of Chicago. Related Links: Business & financial news headlines from msnbc.com Top of page 6/1/12 from MSNBC Read more »
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Obama pal Eric Whitaker: No, I didn’t bribe Rev. Wright not to preach in 2008
Obama friend since graduate school and from Chicago, and Associate Dean and Executive Vice President of the University of Chicago Medical Center. In an email to ABC News responding to Wright’s charge, Whitaker wrote: “I have received your message asking whether 6/1/12 from Hot Air Read more »
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University of Chicago Medicine Devotes 21% of Revenues to Community
University of Chicago Medicine contributed more than $237 million in programs and services to improve health on the South Side and beyond in the last fiscal year, according to the medical center's first community benefit report, which was just released. Overall, 6/1/12 from The University of Chicago Medical Center Read more »
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Radiation therapy specialist joins University of Chicago Cancer Center at Silver Cross
center on Silver Cross Hospital's replacement campus in New Lenox is a collaboration between Silver Cross and the University of Chicago Medicine. The partnership brings University of Chicago cancer specialists and their access to advanced and investigational 6/1/12 from The University of Chicago Medical Center Read more »
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LabBook June 1, 2012
news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. The University of Chicago Medicine will be one of ten centers participating in a trial of a new immune-based treatment for advanced melanoma, 6/1/12 from The University of Chicago Medical Center Read more »
