Certifying Board for Dietary Managers Receives Re-Accreditation of its CDM Certification Program from the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA)
Under the joint Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL) initiative, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $200 million investment to deliver a next-generation supercomputer, known as Aurora, to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. When commissioned in 2018, this supercomputer will be open to all scientific users – drawing America’s top researchers to Argonne.
The Holometer experiment, based at the Department of Energy's Fermilab, is sensitive to gravitational waves at frequencies in the range of a million cycles per second. Thus it addresses a spectrum not covered by experiments such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which searches for lower-frequency waves to detect massive cosmic events such as colliding black holes and merging neutron stars.
“If your baby gets three ear infections in six months or four in one year, it may be time to consider ear tubes,” says Andrew Hotaling, MD, FACS, FAAP, pediatric otolaryngologist at Loyola University Health System. “It is unusual for chronic earaches to lead to temporary hearing loss or even deafness but other health maladies can occur.”
A system for classifying strokes, called TOAST, is effective and easy to use. It is employed in stroke studies around the world, neurologists report in the journal Stroke.
Kelly M. Feehan, JD, MS, has been named executive director of Research Administration and Business Development of Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division.
Every 10 seconds a report is made concerning a child being abused. Child abuse can lead to life-long physical, emotional and psychological conditions. Each year in the U.S., more than 1,600 children die from abuse or neglect. April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month and Loyola University Health System is working with physicians, nurses, parents and communities to help bring awareness to this preventable childhood danger.
Sachin Kheterpal, M.D., M.B.A., physician anesthesiologist and associate professor at the University of Michigan, has been appointed to a team of experts that will lay the groundwork for President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative formed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this week.
Last month, a new superconducting magnet developed and fabricated at Fermilab reached its design field of 11.5 Tesla at a temperature nearly as cold as outer space. It is the first successful twin-aperture accelerator magnet made of niobium-3-tin in the world.
With the Large Hadron Collider back in action, the more than 1,700 U.S. scientists who work on LHC experiments are prepared to join thousands of their international colleagues to study the highest-energy particle collisions ever achieved in the laboratory.
Palos Community Hospital and Loyola University Medical Center are joining together to create an innovative affiliation in Illinois. The affiliation presents a new way to build a network of care that doesn't involve mergers, acquisitions or consolidations, a trend in today’s evolving health care landscape.
New study in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology shows that children exposed to greater number of adverse childhood experiences had increased risk of asthma incidence.
Loyola University Medical Center has received the 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons.
Those in the Midwest with sensitive respiratory systems will find relief beginning Monday, March 16 as the Gottlieb Allergy Count kicks off its first report of 2015. The Gottlieb Allergy Count is the official daily allergy count for the Midwest. “I have conducted initial testing and am detecting pollen in the air, which may be triggering sneezing and itchy skin in allergy sufferers,” said Joseph Leija, MD, retired allergist who is solely certified by the National Allergy Bureau to conduct the official allergy count.
Advanced practice nursing students and a faculty member from University of Coventry, U.K., toured Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing last week.
Five tips from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology to help those with spring allergies avoid symptoms and enjoy the season.
It’s been 10 years since Andrew Gaumer received a life-saving heart and double-lung transplant at Loyola University Medical Center. “Every day since then has been a gift,” he said.
Four Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine students with deferred action for childhood arrival (DACA) status traveled to Washington, D.C. to address the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) delegate congress at its Annual Policy Summit, March 27-28. First-year medical students Diana Andino, Rosa Aramburo, Everado Arias and Manuel Bernal had the opportunity to be advocates on Capitol Hill concerning health care issues including access to care.
“Bottom line, early introduction of peanuts decreases the frequency of developing a peanut allergy,” says Dr. Shah, who treats many children as well as adults with peanut allergies in her Gottlieb Memorial Hospital practice. “The estimated prevalence of peanut allergy in America is 1.4 to 3 percent and the numbers are growing so this news offers a potential real solution to prevention.”
As baseball season opens many parents are concerned about their children’s exposure to the “peanuts and Cracker Jack” icons that many feel are a part of the baseball experience. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 4-6 percent of school-age children have a food allergy; one of the most common food allergens is peanuts. There has been a rise in the number of children with allergies and the cause is still unknown, but new research and techniques are providing hope to allergy sufferers, parents and physicians.
Tip sheet on best ways to combat symptoms of spring allergies.
Loyola University Health System's Sexual Wellness Clinic will offer another six-week session beginning Wednesday, April 8. It will run every Wednesday through May 13 from 6:30 – 9 pm in the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center located at 2160 S. First Ave. in Maywood. The program will combine the expertise of various specialists to address common emotional and physical challenges that couples face in their sexual relationships.
A history of depression may put women at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to research published in the latest issue of the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing by researchers from Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON). This study also pointed to how common depression is during pregnancy and the need for screening and education.
Loyola University Medical Center is conducting a clinical trial on two physical therapy regimens to treat plantar fasciitis, which causes stabbing heel pain. Hand manipulation therapy is being compared with instrument-assisted therapy (Gaston technique).
If a lump is found in the breast of an adolescent girl, she often will undergo an excisional biopsy. However, breast cancer is rare in adolescents, and the vast majority of teenage breast lumps turn out to be benign masses that are related to hormones and often go away over time.
Bacteria have been discovered in the bladders of healthy women, discrediting the common belief that normal urine is sterile. This finding and its implications were addressed in an editorial published by researchers from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) in the latest issue of European Urology.
Early surgery may not be the best treatment option for patients with Type V AC joint injuries, according to new research from Tripler Army Medical Center. The study, presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s (AOSSM) Specialty Day, showed military personnel returned to duty faster when surgery was not performed.
Delaying rotator cuff surgery on patients with shoulder stiffness may not be necessary, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s (AOSSM) Specialty Day.
How best to treat and recover from complicated hip injuries is a growing field in orthopaedic medicine. While diagnostic hip injections are commonly performed for patients with labral tear to confirm the pain etiology, research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s (AOSSM) Specialty Day suggests that pain relief from this diagnostic injection may not predict better outcomes following arthroscopic hip surgery.
An individual’s meniscus (cushion in the knee) is one of the most important ligaments in the leg providing stability, load bearing and preservation of the knee joint. It is also one of the most easily injured areas and difficult to fully heal. Researchers presenting their study at today’s Specialty Day meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) utilized MRI data to determine the potential for biologic healing following a meniscus tear.
One in three young athletes who undergo ACL surgery experiences re-injury, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s (AOSSM) Specialty Day. The study examined the long term success of surgery for patients aged 18 years and younger.
Pitching speed, player’s height, and pitching for multiple teams may correlate with a history of shoulder and elbow injuries, according to new research released today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s (AOSSM) Specialty Day.
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) are using supercomputing resources at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, to shed light on the mysterious nature of high-temperature superconductors.
Following the example of Pope Francis and commemorating one of the most poignant acts of Jesus’s ministry, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine students washed the feet of the marginalized at the Sole Care Foot Clinic in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood.
The long-baseline neutrino experiment formerly known as LBNE has a new name, new members and new leaders. It will be based at Fermilab and send neutrinos 800 miles through the earth to a detector at the Sanford Underground Research Lab in South Dakota.
Jorge Parada, MD, hospital epidemiologist and medical director of the Infection Prevention and Control Program at Loyola University Health System, will receive the Implementation Science Award at the Association for Prevention and Infection (APIC).
Angelica Gierut, MD, has joined Loyola University Health System as a rheumatologist and as an assistant professor of rheumatology at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. She sees patients at the Loyola Outpatient Center and the Loyola Center for Health at Oakbrook Terrace.
A rare and potentially deadly lung disease called Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) strikes women during their childbearing years. Symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain, chronic cough and lung collapse. Many patients must go on oxygen, and some require lung transplants.
Four Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine students with deferred action for childhood arrival (DACA) status will address the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) delegate congress at its Annual Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., March 27 and 28.
In certain stroke patients, a new device called a stent retriever can reverse symptoms and limit stroke damage. The "stentriever," deployed with a catheter, restores blood flow and retrieves a blood clot from the brain.
Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON) is offering an online oncology nursing certificate program for nurses who are interested in advancing their oncology knowledge and skills.
Kathy Albain, MD, FACP, FASCO, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO). The fellow designation is bestowed on ASCO members who have demonstrated extraordinary dedication through volunteer efforts that benefit the society, the specialty of oncology and the patients whom the organization serves.
Children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a common virus that infects the lungs and breathing passageways, has been on the rise across the nation for the last several years. Though it may only produce minor cold symptoms in adults, it can lead to serious illness in young children and those with compromised immune systems.
Having a strong sense that your life has meaning and direction may make you less likely to develop areas of brain damage caused by blockages in blood flow as you age. This research is reported in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke.
People who suffer migraine headaches with auras are at roughly double the risk of suffering the most common type of stroke. The risk is more than tripled in migraine sufferers who smoke. And migraineurs who smoke and use birth control pills are seven times more likely to suffer strokes.
No cures are possible for most patients who suffer debilitating movement disorders called cerebellar ataxias. But in a few of these disorders, patients can be effectively treated with regimens such as prescription drugs, high doses of vitamin E and gluten-free diets.
A list of foods and supplements recommended by James McDonnell, MD, ophthalmologist at Loyola University Health System.
The 10-meter SPT, which maps the cosmic microwave background, is the largest telescope ever to make its way to the South Pole. A major upgrade will help scientists to determine the masses of neutrinos and further study cosmic inflation.
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