All obesity

October 1, 2012

$4M Grant to Study Impact of Policy, Environment on Kids’ Health

UIC’s ImpacTeen project to study influences on youth nutrition, physical activity

August 31, 2012

First Simultaneous Robotic Kidney Transplant, Sleeve Gastrectomy Performed

A 35-year-old Chicago woman is the first patient in the world to have a combined procedure that offers new hope for obese kidney patients.

April 4, 2012

Chicago Man Receives Robotic Kidney Transplant After 17 Years

Robotic surgery permitted surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System to transplant a kidney into a morbidly obese Chicago man — who had survived 17 years on dialysis waiting for the procedure.

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