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Most children actively notice and think about race. A new study has found that children develop an awareness about racial stereotypes early, and that those biases can be damaging.

Seniors who neglect themselves, risking their own health and safety, tend to be individuals with limited social networks and little social engagement, according to a study by Rush University Medical Center.

Children pose next to a wax figure of U.S. President Barack Obama at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Shanghai on Nov.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 4:50 pm US/Central Reporting Mai Martinez 1 of 1 U.S. Army medics undergo training for the battlefield through a program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on Nov.

We recently took Andrew, 8, on our annual pilgrimage to visit Dr. Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, one of the world's leading researchers on Fragile X. Kravis sees patients on days when she is not working on numerous basic science and clinical Fragile X research projects at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

The goal is to spare these areas, which are responsible for short-term memory, as well as emotions, motivation, and a range of executive functions, such as planning and decision-making. Cranial radiation is used to destroy tumors that have spread to the brain, which happens in 20 to 25 percent of all cancer patients.

Failing muscle power could be linked to Alzheimer's in older adults, say researchers.

Individuals with weaker muscles appear to have a higher risk for Alzheimer's disease and declines in cognitive function over time, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Neurology , one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

A pregnant woman has died of pneumonia due to the swine flu. The flu victim, identified as Carrie Brinsen, was 25 years old and lived on Chicago's South Side.

Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment.

Rush University Medical Center is declaring the end of the first phase of a $1 billion campus renovation with the opening this month of its orthopedic building.

Radiation oncologists at Rush University Medical Center are intent on finding ways to avoid damage to the critically important hippocampus and limbic circuit of the brain when cranial radiation is required to treat existing or potential metastatic cancers.

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage often experienced by breast cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy.

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A pregnant South Side woman died Friday in part from the H1H1 virus, making her the 12th person to die from the virus in Chicago.

The Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force has announced the 56 participating hospitals , medical centers and mammography providers that are partnering to share quality data in order to identify deficits and implement strategies to improve breast cancer screening and treatment and reduce breast cancer mortality disparities.

Rush University Medical Center received a $750,000 Grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to chart the presence of microorganisms in the gut and determine how microbial imbalances might impact diseases.

The human body contains billions of microorganisms, and microbial cells found in the human gut are estimated to outnumber human cells by ten-to-one in healthy adults.

When physicians treat their patients, they can write prescriptions, recommend surgery, order physical therapy - " or call upon the services of a professional chaplain .

Mike Ditka has a message for the NFL and Congressional leaders: More action, not studies.