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2023
May
30,
2023
| 14:14 PM America/Chicago
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...
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May
25,
2023
| 12:45 PM America/Chicago
Lurie Cancer Center held the first celebration in 1993
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May
11,
2023
| 12:07 PM America/Chicago
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....
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May
10,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Chicago
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...
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April
27,
2023
| 14:55 PM America/Chicago
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...
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April
26,
2023
| 15:44 PM America/Chicago
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...
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April
19,
2023
| 05:02 AM America/Chicago
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...
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April
06,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Chicago
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...
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February
28,
2023
| 11:16 AM America/Chicago
Northwestern Medicine is one of only 46 sites worldwide to participate in the pivotal study of Medtronic’s Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
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February
15,
2023
| 08:10 AM America/Chicago
When medications and breathing machines aren’t enough, ECMO can serve as a ‘bridge’ to medical improvement or a lung transplant
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February
14,
2023
| 10:30 AM America/Chicago
A fleet of four robots is at work to automate tasks for laboratory and pharmacy professionals
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January
30,
2023
| 13:03 PM America/Chicago
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...
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January
11,
2023
| 11:00 AM America/Chicago
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...
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2022
December
20,
2022
| 14:23 PM America/Chicago
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)...
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December
05,
2022
| 10:01 AM America/Chicago
Northwestern Medicine “Secret Shopper” study is the first to identify guideline-discordant practices among online men’s health providers
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November
23,
2022
| 09:55 AM America/Chicago
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...
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November
09,
2022
| 17:16 PM America/Chicago
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...
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October
26,
2022
| 16:21 PM America/Chicago
Erika Aleman ran the marathon on Sunday, had breast cancer surgery on Friday
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October
12,
2022
| 16:32 PM America/Chicago
Dr. Johnston will serve as chief of cardiac surgery and surgical director of Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
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October
10,
2022
| 14:27 PM America/Chicago
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
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September
27,
2022
| 17:20 PM America/Chicago
Itasca firefighters transported 34-year-old Frank Nunez home to Crystal Lake, Illinois, along with his fiancé and family dog
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September
26,
2022
| 10:00 AM America/Chicago
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...
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September
23,
2022
| 09:34 AM America/Chicago
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...
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September
06,
2022
| 16:30 PM America/Chicago
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...
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August
31,
2022
| 10:59 AM America/Chicago
Trial will investigate if Apple Watch can reduce reliance on blood thinners
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August
26,
2022
| 17:05 PM America/Chicago
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...
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August
11,
2022
| 20:01 PM America/Chicago
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’...
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July
25,
2022
| 23:05 PM America/Chicago
Northwestern Medicine hospitals are among “America’s Best Hospitals” in annual rankings 
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