On Monday, September 22nd Rush University Medical Center and The Larrry King Cardiac Foundation will host a symposium on "Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Warning Signs, Detection and Prevention" featuring a panel of America's most distinguished physician thought leaders.
As testosterone progressively dominates the hormonal milieu during the menopausal transition, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome increases according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. The study suggests this may be a pathway by which cardiovascular disease increases during menopause.
Inhibiting the proton currents in basophils, a rare type of white blood cell, can stop the release of histamine and could provide a new target for allergy and asthma drugs according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center in Baltimore.
Difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep increase as women go through menopause according to research by Rush University Medical Center. Waking up earlier than planned also increases through late perimenopause but decreases when women become postmenopausal. The study is published in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP.
A novel cell therapy using retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells attached to tiny gelatin bead microcarriers implanted in the brain can improve the symptoms of patients with moderate to advanced Parkinson's disease (PD).
Interventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center now offer a minimally-invasive transcatheter valve replacement procedure for patients with congenital heart disease that doesn't involve open heart surgery.
A new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center supports the idea that depression is truly a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease rather than a subtle early sign of its underlying pathology. The study found no evidence of an increase in depressive symptoms during the prodromal phase before the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
Neurons grafted into the brain of a patient with Parkinson's disease fourteen years ago have developed Lewy body pathology, the defining pathology for the disease, according to research by Jeffrey H. Kordower, PhD, and associates and published in the April 6 issue of Nature Medicine.
Women and men experience a similar prevalence of adverse drug reactions in the treatment of coronary artery disease; however, women are significantly less likely than their male counterparts to be treated with statins, aspirin, and beta-blockers according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center.
A research study by orthopedic spine, back and neck surgeon at Rush University Medical Center Dr. Howard An and colleagues found that patients who underwent surgery for spinal stenosis showed significantly more improvement in all primary outcomes than did patients who were treated nonsurgically.
A research study by orthopedic spine, back and neck surgeon at Rush University Medical Center Dr. Howard An and colleagues found that patients who underwent surgery for spinal stenosis showed significantly more improvement in all primary outcomes than did patients who were treated nonsurgically. The study findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, February 21.
Advancements in technology and new techniques are allowing wrist fracture patients to resume their normal day to day activities even while their fractures are healing. This evolution of care is thanks to smaller implants known as locking plates. Newer plates designed specifically for the wrist eliminate the need for larger incisions and allow early return to function.
For the first time in a large-scale study, transcranial magnetic stimulation has been shown to be an effective, non-drug treatment for major depression. Current antidepressant therapies are not beneficial for at least a third of depressed individuals, leaving many with a lack of adequate treatment options. This study will be published in the December 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry
Researchers have successfully used a peptide to reverse biochemical, cellular and anatomical changes that occur in the brains of mice with Parkinson's disease (PD), and report success in preventing the disease from progression.
Findings from two large, international clinical trials show "unprecedented" survival for patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that occurs in the blood-making cells of bone marrow. The findings demonstrate that with Revlimid, an oral cancer drug, all measures of myeloma showed significant improvement in patients where previous treatments had failed. Rush University Medical Center took part in the U.S. study. Results of the study were published November 21 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Moderate, long-term pain medication use does not impair a person's ability to drive safely, according to a study by Dr. Asokumar Buvanendran, associate professor, Department of Anesthesiology at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. The study was presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting in San Francisco on October 13.
The drug pregabalin administered before and after knee replacement surgery, significantly decreased patient pain while increasing and expediting mobility after surgery, according to a study by Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, director of Orthopedic Anesthesia and associate professor of Anesthesiology at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.
Interventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center are investigating whether a heart procedure may be the key to relieving migraines in patients with severe headaches.
Heart attack patients who received an new intravenous adult stem cell therapy, Provacelâ„¢, experienced a lower number of adverse events, such as cardiac arrhythmias, and had significant improvements in heart, lung and global function compared to those who received a placebo, according to six-month Phase I study data presented at the American College of Cardiology's Innovation in Intervention: i2Summit in New Orleans on March 25.
Rush University Medical Center is one of the first medical centers in the country, and currently the only site in Illinois, participating in a novel clinical trial to determine if a subject's own stem cells can treat a form of severe coronary artery disease.
An easy-to-use in home monitoring device for patients is changing the way doctors monitor the health of patients with implanted defibrillators. Rush University Medical Center is participating in a pilot study of the LATITUDE® Patient Management system to determine if the wireless home monitoring system can decrease hospitalizations for heart failure.
An important indicator of a more aggressive form of breast cancer appears to be present in less aggressive breast cancers in many women who have used hormone replacment therapy, according to researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago.
A monoclonal antibody may allow more patients withh a common type of leukemia to use their own bone marrow to treat the disease and prolong their disease-free survival. An in-vivo purging process using Rituxan rids blood stem cells of leukemia in autologous transplants.
A new device that increases the effectiveness of angioplasty to re-open blocked heart bypass grafts offers patients an alternative to open-heart surgery. About 25 percent of bypass grafts that become blocked require additional open-heart surgery to replace the graft.
A quiet night of quality, restful sleep and dreaming can help both depressed and non-depressed individuals work out their negative feelings and problems, according to sleep researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, who conducted two long-term comprehensive studies of how dreams and sleep restore psychological balance after a "bad day."
A new ultrasound technique known as contrast echocardiography has been found to safely and consistently diagnose blood flow abnormalities in the heart muscle, according to researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. LukeÃs Medical Center, Chicago.
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