Articles tagged with 'Northwestern Memorial Hospital' | Northwestern Medicine

Patients in suburban Chicago now have better access to world-class liver transplant care through a new department at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. It is the first time Northwestern Medicine has extended inpatient transplant care beyo...

Lurie Cancer Center held the first celebration in 1993

Community members will receive free kidney and diabetes screenings and learn more about issues that affect their health at the Celebrating the Health of Mothers and Families Health Expo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 13 at Imani Village, 901 E....

Physicians who performed colonoscopies assisted by artificial intelligence achieved a 13 percent increase in the detection and removal of colorectal polyps, according to new research by Northwestern Medicine shared May 9 at the Digestive Diseases Wee...

It’s hard to say who was more taken aback by Chicago pastor Brenda Bravatty’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis: Brenda or Rajesh Keswani, MD, MS, an interventional gastroenterologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Brenda felt perfectly healthy when sh...

When Kathy Fiandaca and Daniel Ganger, MD, met nearly 35 years ago, she was a single mom who had been told her liver would fail by the time she was 30. He was a young transplant hepatologist who looked her in the eye as she shared her worst fear, tha...

Patients previously hospitalized for COVID-19 pneumonia showed broad cognitive impairment, while those with mild initial infection not requiring hospitalization mainly had difficulties with attention tasks...

CHICAGO – April 6, 2023 – Every day as a nephrologist at Northwestern Medicine, Aleksandra Gmurczyk, MD, sees patients who are suffering from kidney failure. She encourages them to take their medications as prescribed, go to all their dialysis appoin...

The outcomes of the program’s first 75 patients will also be tracked in a new research registry

Northwestern Medicine is one of only 46 sites worldwide to participate in the pivotal study of Medtronic’s Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

When medications and breathing machines aren’t enough, ECMO can serve as a ‘bridge’ to medical improvement or a lung transplant

A fleet of four robots is at work to automate tasks for laboratory and pharmacy professionals

CHICAGO, Ill. – Jan. 30, 2023 – New data confirms Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s standing among the top abdominal organ transplant programs in the country. Based on one-year survival, information released by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Re...

In February 2020, Shelly Battista of Arlington Heights, Ill., was breastfeeding her newborn daughter, Emilia, when she felt a lump. She thought it was a clogged milk duct, but when it didn’t get better, Shelly went to the doctor and received a shocki...

The 32-year-old received a “Christmas miracle” last year when she walked into one of the few hospitals in the U.S. to offer specialized surgery for CTEPH (chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension)...

Northwestern Medicine “Secret Shopper” study is the first to identify guideline-discordant practices among online men’s health providers

Born in the Philippines, Patricio Collera moved to the United States and worked as a Northwestern Medicine nurse for several years. On Aug. 24, he received the call that organs were available. Thanksgiving Day marks three months since receiving the l...

CHICAGO -  Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Ill., and Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill., have earned a prestigious recognition from the Parkinson’s Foundation. The two suburban hospitals are now...

Donor heart is kept pumping outside of the body until it can be transplanted

Erika Aleman ran the marathon on Sunday, had breast cancer surgery on Friday

Dr. Johnston will serve as chief of cardiac surgery and surgical director of Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute

Jason DePetris of Long Beach, California, set a personal record at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 9, and was reunited at the race with his Northwestern Medicine neurosurgeon

Itasca firefighters transported 34-year-old Frank Nunez home to Crystal Lake, Illinois, along with his fiancé and family dog

CHICAGO, Ill. – Sept. 26, 2022 – A new Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA Pediatrics is the first of its kind to show that gender-affirming top surgery (mastectomy) is associated with significant improvement in chest dysphoria, gender cong...

Just three days after donating 60 percent of his liver to a complete stranger, Chris Staehlin had his first opportunity to joke around with the recipient, Dan Droszcz. The men met Aug. 27, hours before Staehlin was discharged from Northwestern Memori...

Chicago, IL – As Grace Hinchman returns to school this fall, the Loyola University Chicago volleyball player is literally “one in a million.”In June, the 20-year-old from Geneva, Ill., was diagnosed with an extremely rare and catastrophic epilepsy co...

Trial will investigate if Apple Watch can reduce reliance on blood thinners

CHICAGO – When Tokoya Williams, MD, found a lump in her breast, the 30-year-old medical student didn’t realize her breast cancer journey would help her find a new path in medicine. Her experience as a patient led her to Northwestern Medicine for care...

After being hospitalized for 422 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 57-year-old Colette Hurd of Chicago is heading home after receiving Northwestern Medicine’s first positive crossmatch lung and kidney transplant.“I now call myself ‘Colette 2.0’...

Northwestern Medicine hospitals are among “America’s Best Hospitals” in annual rankings