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Undergrads in Health Sciences Go Bananas for Veterinary Experience
August 11, 2026 / News

Last month 12 members of the Medicina Scholars program at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) spent a day at our college’s Medical District Veterinary Clinic, getting a taste of a different pathway in medicine. “At…
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Unusual Surgery Helps BJ the Cat ‘Breathe Easy’

December 19, 2016 / Patient Stories

When Jan Jannusch noticed that her 13-year-old cat, BJ, was having trouble breathing, she took him to see a veterinarian. The cause of BJ’s problem turned out to be “idiopathic chylothorax,” a disease so rare…
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