For the fourth year in a row, RUSH is among the nation’s best on U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospitals Honor Roll. In the annual evaluation of more than 4,500 hospitals, U.S. News & World Report again placed RUSH University Medical Center among the nation’s top hospitals.
New research shows the importance of long-term commitment to the MIND diet for reaping the greatest benefit to brain health.
Research results, published July 17 in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, show the first-ever county-level estimates of people living with Alzheimer’s disease in all U.S. counties.
The secret to protecting your memory may be a staple of a bodybuilder’s diet. RUSH researchers recently discovered that a muscle-building supplement called beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate, also called HMB, may help protect memory, reduce plaques and ultimately help prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
Chicago health systems RUSH and UChicago Medicine are making available a free self-assessment tool that uses a race-conscious approach to help hospitals benchmark health equity efforts for all patients. Created after the COVID 19 pandemic revealed disproportionate racial and ethnic mortality rates, the effort is supported by a Commonwealth Fund grant and was piloted at hospitals across Illinois.
New research from RUSH University reveals pathways to reducing organ injury caused by severe COVID-19 infection. What began as a study of how the common cold affected patients with certain types of kidney disease evolved to mitigating myocarditis, liver injury and severe kidney injury from COVID-19.
Four RUSH respiratory specialists have been named top doctors by Chicago magazine.
Rush University System for Health has submitted a certificate of need to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board for a RUSH Lisle location at 2455 Corporate West Drive, an approximately 55,000-square-foot comprehensive cancer center in the western suburbs.
On Friday, Jan 13, at 8:30 a.m., RUSH leaders and U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin officially unveiled the Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building and explained how the 10-story, $450 million outpatient facility embodies the future of health care: convenient, life-saving care delivered in an outpatient setting for cancer, neuroscience and digestive diseases patients.
Fifteen primary care physicians from Rush University System for Health were named “Top Primary Care Doctors” in the January issue of Chicago magazine.
For the sixth year in a row, the MIND diet has been recognized as a Best Diet for 2023 by U.S. News & World Report.
Under a four-year $2 million contract awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, scientists from RUSH and the Discovery Partners Institute will test wastewater from long-term care facilities to identify antibiotic-resistant organisms.
The NIH has honored RUSH physician scientist Faraz Bishehsari, MD, PhD, with the Director’s Transformative Research Award for his innovative pancreatic cancer research. The award, one of the NIH’s most prestigious and exclusive, is given to "exceptionally creative" scientists proposing high-risk, high-impact research. His research focuses on developing new methods to discover treatments for pancreatic cancer.
Newly published research from RUSH in the journal SLEEP sheds light on how adolescents can get more shut-eye.
Rush University System for Health (RUSH) and Medtronic will partner to create an Innovation Hub designed to bring together the brightest minds from industry and academic medicine to lead research and develop technology and treatments for patients with complex digestive diseases, along with enhanced fellowship training at RUSH.
Apprenticeships - trainees being employed while receiving hands-on training —are uncommon in healthcare. But this RUSH pilot program is an innovative approach that could be an overlooked strategy in connecting workplaces with workforces.
Chicago-based Rush University System for Health and Franciscan Alliance, Inc., are partnering to jointly develop and provide clinical services to improve the availability of health care to patients in Northwest Indiana, giving patients streamlined access to subspecialty care in their own communities.
Regular treadmill exercise helped improve Parkinson’s disease symptoms in mice in a recent study by researchers at RUSH.
RUSH researchers found that a bioactive compound found in strawberries called pelargonidin may be associated with less neurofibrillary tau tangles in the brain.
For the third year in a row, RUSH is ranked among the nation’s best on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-2023 Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Of more than 4,500 U.S. hospitals evaluated, RUSH ranked 20th in the nation, with 10 specialties rated among the country’s top 50.
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