University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Does lack of paid sick time make US susceptible to global health crisis? Lack of paid sick time makes the U.S. acutely susceptible to a global health crises like COVID-19, and is part of the larger problem of tying health care to employment, says U. of I. labor expert Robert Bruno. A new paper co-written by Yilan Xu, a professor of agricultural and... consumer economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, shows that the growing traffic burden in shale energy boomtowns resulted in a surge of road fatalities and severe accidents. A firms decision on where to locate its branch offices has reverberations in higher education and students post-graduation upward income mobility, according to new research from U. of I. labor economist Russell Weinstein. Hospital-level policies key to maximizing benefits, managing costs of robot-assisted surgery Robot-assisted surgery is a major advancement in minimally invasive surgical care delivery, making it imperative for hospitals to codify policies that leverage the quality benefits while managing the cost, says Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee, a professor of business administration at the Gies College of Business at Illinois who studies innovation in health care. Are there alternatives to declining, disappearing newspapers? As many newspapers decline and disappear highlighted by two Chicago Tribune reporters recently sounding the alarm about a perceived threat to the Trib a journalism professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign touts the growth and viability of nonprofits and other alternatives. Targeted ads are coming to mainstream media. Should we care? Targeted advertising is coming to mainstream media, says an Illinois professor of digital media, bringing concerns about equality, division and total surveillance. Scholars from the Gies College of Business at Illinois from left, Julian Reif, Tatyana Deryugina, David Molitor and Nolan Miller studied the effects of acute fine particulate matter exposure on mortality, health care use and medical costs among ...Read More