ChicagoLOW-BIRTH-WEIGHTBLOOD-LEADUNITED-STATESGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSISHEALTH DISPARITIESSOIL LEADLead poisoning remains a major environmental health threat and a persistent source of health disparities in the United States, particularly in large cities such as Chicago. However, little research has considered the...
If asked to quickly come up with a list of things that grow, many people would most likely either name some living things like weeds, children and mushrooms or things associated with living things like hair, fingernails and beards. This makes sense, since things that can change their size wi...
1. It is both intriguing and historically significant that the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century was associated with an urge to re-think what kind of language communication is ...
Religious institutions are huge urban landowners. For instance, across Cook County, Illinois (home of Chicago), the Roman Catholic Archdiocese owns a staggering 5,500 acres; 880 within the city. Two-thirds of these acres are situated in areas zoned exclusively for single-family homes. Historicall...
from what they’re doing and reach for the stars in this auspicious debut picture book. Honored as a Chicago Public Library 2019 Best of the Best Book!A comet will be visible tonight, and Rocket wants everyone to see it with her–even her big brother, Jamal, whose attention is usually ...
would be required to account for fatal morbidity. Given such a high number of false positives, it might be concluded that the observed virus played no role whatsoever in progression to EHF. Hence defining ‘Ebola’ as causally responsible for human fatalities associated with haemorrhagic fever is ...
"I have confidence in my game where if they are backing up on me I will shoot," said Rose, who finished with 29 points. "If they are on me, I came into this league because of driving (to the basket)." Rose helped Chicago overcome a poor game from Carlos Boozer, who sat the ent...
we remember the Milton Friedman article in the New York Times trashing the notion of corporate social responsibility and the so-called Chicago School of Law and Economics that achieved intellectual dominance in legal scholarship in the 1980s. Moreover, the scholarly work of economists Alchian, Demse...
put Louis Vuitton on a global brand. It his during his tenure as leader of the fashion house that Louis Vuitton participated in New York, Buenos Aires, Washington, Alexandria, London, Bombay, Philadelphia and Chicago. The most notable store opening of that time was the 1913 Champ-Elysees Loui...
The so-called “concrete jungle” is part of the specific stressors associated with the term “urban psychiatry.” As we go along with this post, let’s try to discover the solutions for this including the vital role of green spaces as adviced by the psychiatrist downtown Chicago. Urban ...