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A 59-year-old woman died Monday after being hit by a car a few days earlier in West Englewood on the South Side.
Shanda Monegan, of suburban Flossmoor, was walking about 11:10 a.m. Dec. 12 in the 6900 block of South Ashland Avenue when she was struck by a car, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Monegan was walking west on 69th Street when a 33-year-old man in a Dodge southbound on Ashland hit her, Chicago police said.
She was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition and died of her injuries at 4:26 p.m. Monday, the medical examiner’s office said.
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An 84-year-old man was fatally struck by a vehicle while crossing the street in his wheelchair Monday in Englewood.
About 11:40 a.m., a 29-year-old man was driving a Mercedes truck at high speeds in the 900 block of West 63rd Street when he struck Marvin Brown, 84, as he crossed the street in his wheelchair, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Brown was conscious when officers arrived at the scene but suffered a head injury and damage to his wheelchair, police said.
He was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead two hours later, police and the medical examiner’s office said.
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Dr. Sharon Robinson is a pediatrician with the NorthShore University HealthSystem where she also serves as a Physician Director of Primary Care. She lives just outside Chicago with her husband and her two daughters.
Dr. Tara Henderson is the Interim Chief, Section of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation University of Chicago Medicine. Director, Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Survivorship Center. She has a particular interest in the care of childhood cancer survivors.
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Advances in neuroscience and engineering have generated great hope for Luke Skywalker-like prosthetics: robotic devices that are almost indistinguishable from a human limb. Key to solving this challenge is designing devices that not only can be operated with a user s own neural activity, but can also accurately and precisely receive and relay sensory information to the user.
A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and Chalmers University of Technology, published on December 22 in the journal
Cell Reports, highlights just how difficult this may prove to be. In a cohort of three subjects whose amputated limbs had been replaced with neuromusculoskeletal prosthetic limbs, the investigators found that even after a full year of using the devices, the participant s subjective sensation never shifted to match the location of the touch sensors on their prosthetic devices.