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Released: 10-Dec-2018 10:20 AM EST
New Rush Oak Brook Outpatient Center Brings Nationally Ranked Programs to Western Suburbs
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Rush will expand access to academic health care for people living in the western suburbs of Chicago with the opening of a new, medical professional building in Oak Brook in January 2019.

Released: 7-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
Rush Acts Locally, Leads Nationally
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Rush University Medical Center is working to improve population health by focusing the economic impact of how it hires, purchases and invests towards the local communities it serves

Released: 3-Dec-2018 10:05 PM EST
Can Sudden Weather Change Cause Strokes?
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Dramatic changes in barometric pressure may increase the incidence of a type of stroke known as spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, a study found.

Released: 26-Nov-2018 6:30 AM EST
Rush Opens Chicago’s First Center for Airway Diseases
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Rush University Medical Center has opened a center for airway diseases, a comprehensive program to treat people with interrelated chronic conditions such as sinusitis, allergies, asthma and sleep apnea, which affect millions of people. It is the first program of its kind in Illinois.

Released: 19-Nov-2018 11:05 AM EST
Susan Crown Appointed Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of Rush University Medical Center and of the Rush System
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The Board of Trustees of Rush University Medical Center has appointed Susan Crown its new chairman, effective Nov. 14. She also will serve as chairman of the Rush System board.

30-Oct-2018 7:00 AM EDT
Dr. Sherine E. Gabriel Selected as Next President of Rush University
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Sherine E. Gabriel, MD, MSc, has been named as the new president of Rush University. She is currently is the dean of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and former dean of Mayo Medical School. She will succeed Dr. Larry Goodman, who remains CEO of Rush, an academic health system comprising Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Copley Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital.

Released: 24-Oct-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Rush Receives $5 Million Gift for Cancer Immunotherapy Research
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Rush University Medical Center has received a $5 million donation from Chicago philanthropists Robert and Emily King that will accelerate blood cancer immunotherapy research and the development of new treatment options. This transformational gift to the Rush University Cancer Center is expected to heavily increase much-needed early-stage clinical trials at Rush over the next five years, the kind of research that is essential in developing lifesaving treatments or even a cure.

Released: 15-Oct-2018 12:00 PM EDT
Rush University Receives HEED Award for Excellence in Diversity
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Rush University has received the 2018 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine demonstrating an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Released: 15-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Mia Levy, MD, PhD, Appointed Director of the Rush University Cancer Center
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Mia Levy, MD, PhD, a practicing oncologist and nationally-recognized leader in biomedical informatics, has been appointed director of the Rush University Cancer Center.

Released: 12-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Rush Transplant Survival Rates Above Expectations
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Adult patients who received liver and kidney transplants at Rush University Medical Center had better-than-expected one-year survival rates, according to the most recent transplantation on the 5-tier system report by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), which was released on Oct. 9.

Released: 12-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Potential Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Hypothyroidism Proves Effective in Lab Study
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A new "metal-coordinated" drug-delivery technology potentially could be used to supplement the standard therapy for hypothyroidism, which affects nearly 10 million Americans, and many more patients worldwide, according to results of a study published in the journal Thyroid this month.

Released: 5-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Study Ranks Rush No. 2 Among 99 Leading Academic Medical Centers
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Rush University Medical Center ranked second among 99 leading academic medical centers in the United States in a study conducted by the health care services company Vizient. The study is based entirely on objective data related to patient outcomes for all inpatients regardless of insurance.

Released: 24-Sep-2018 4:00 PM EDT
Rush Opening State-of-the-Art Outpatient Center to Increase Access for Adults and Children in the South Loop
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The Rush System is expanding its network of outpatient care centers with a new location in Chicago’s South Loop. Located at 1411 S. Michigan Ave., the newly constructed, 40,000-square-foot center occupies two floors. Rush South Loop will begin seeing patients on Oct. 1.

14-Sep-2018 5:00 PM EDT
Aspirin Found Not to Prolong Healthy Aging
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Taking a low-dose aspirin daily does not prolong healthy living in older adults, according to findings from the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) trial published online Sept. 16 in three papers in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Released: 14-Sep-2018 3:05 PM EDT
Rush Expert Chosen to Serve on National Academies Committee to Advance a Healthier Nation
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Robyn Golden, LCSW, associate vice president of population health and aging at Rush University Medical Center, has been selected to serve as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee on Integrating Social Needs Care into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Nation’s Health.

Released: 13-Sep-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Rush Clinical Trial Testing Vaccine for Glioblastoma Brain Cancer
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Rush is testing whether a vaccine can help people’s own immune system slow the spread of glioblastomas, a deadly form of brain cancer.

11-Sep-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Chicago Sudden Infant Death Cases Never Make the News
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While news media reporting traffic crashes and fire-related deaths of infants and children is routine and often leads to preventative measures to reduce these deaths, there is little or no news coverage of sleep-related or sudden infants deaths, which contributes to the lack of efforts to prevent these deaths, according to a Rush physician.

Released: 29-Aug-2018 3:05 PM EDT
Rush Ear, Nose and Throat Program Ranked Highest in Three-State Area
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Rush University Medical Center’s Ear, Nose and Throat program was ranked higher than any other similar program in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, and 24th in the nation, in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals” issue, published in July.

Released: 27-Aug-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Innovative Freezing Device Offers Relief from Sneezing and Running Nose—Symptoms of Chronic Rhinitis Affecting more than 24 million Americans
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A new treatment that delivers a freezing or near-freezing temperature to the back of the nose of patients can offer relief to people suffering from chronic rhinitis.

Released: 22-Aug-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Rush University Medical Center Launches Angelman Syndrome Clinic
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Rush University Medical Center and the Angelman Syndrome Foundation (ASF), a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Aurora, Ill., announced the official opening of the Angelman Syndrome Clinic at Rush Children’s Hospital. The Angelman Syndrome Clinic at Rush is the first and only in Illinois and one of only eight in the U.S.

Released: 21-Aug-2018 5:05 PM EDT
Standard Hypothyroidism Treatment Falling Short
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A research team headed by Elizabeth McAninch, MD, a assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, found higher cholesterol levels in the blood of hypothyroid patients treated with appropriate doses of levothyroxine (LT4)—a synthetic version of the human thyroid hormone that is the standard treatment for hypothyroidism—than in healthy control subjects.

Released: 17-Aug-2018 2:55 PM EDT
Rush Brings Leadership in Health Care IT to White House
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At a recent White House event designed to engage more application developers, Rush University Medical Center CIO Dr. Shafiq Rab and chief application architect Modi Boutrs presented an app for mobile phone that provides patients with access to their electronic medical lets them better communicate with their doctors.

Released: 8-Aug-2018 5:05 PM EDT
Rush Plans Major New Outpatient Care Center at Ashland Avenue and Harrison Street
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Rush University Medical Center has submitted plans to construct an eleven-story, 530,000 square foot state of the art outpatient care center at the northeast corner of Ashland Avenue and Harrison Street on the near west side of Chicago.

Released: 1-Aug-2018 5:05 PM EDT
William G. Mcgowan Charitable Fund Invests in Reversing Metabolic Syndrome Through Six-Year, $9 Million Grant to Rush University Medical Center
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After a successful, two-year pilot project that helped patients reverse their metabolic syndrome with lifestyle changes, the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund is expanding the Eat, Love, Move (ELM) program to five cities through a six-year clinical trial, totaling $9 million in grants to Rush University Medical Center.

Released: 1-Aug-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Intensive Outpatient Therapy Shows Rapid Reduction of Veterans’ PTSD Symptoms
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Research conducted by clinicians at Rush University Medical Center's Road Home Program for veterans showed that combat veterans who received 3 weeks of intensive outpatient therapy had significant and rapid reduction in measurable PTSD symptoms. The findings add to the growing body evidence that several hours of therapy over several consecutive days could be an important step in addressing the unmet mental health needs of tens of thousands of military veterans.

2-Jul-2018 1:00 PM EDT
Can Aspirin Treat Alzheimer’s?
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A regimen of low-dose aspirin potentially may reduce plaques in the brain, which will reduce Alzheimer’s disease pathology and protect memory, according to neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center, who published the results of their study today in the July issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.

Released: 21-Jun-2018 4:40 PM EDT
Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: A Wake-up Call
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Dr. Kyran Quinlan and colleagues at Rush issue an urgent call for prevention strategies for sleep-related infant deaths in his viewpoint, “Protecting Infants From Sleep-Related Deaths” published in the June 18 online issue of JAMA Pediatrics.

Released: 6-Jun-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Early Indicators of Bone Loss After Hip Replacement Discovered
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A research team at Rush University Medical Center has identified a pair of biomarkers that indicate which hip replacement patients are likely to develop osteolysis, the destruction of bone tissue around a replacement joint that is a leading cause of failed hip replacements.

Released: 5-Jun-2018 9:00 PM EDT
Rush Receives $45 Million Grant from Wounded Warrior Project to Expand Care for Military Veterans and Their Families
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Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) will provide $45 million to Rush University Medical Center to substantially grow its Road Home Program for military veterans. Most of the money will be used to expand a program that provides three weeks of concentrated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment that has been proven to significantly reduce PTSD symptoms.

Released: 5-Jun-2018 4:55 PM EDT
Chicago Magazine Names Cardiologists at Rush Among Top Heart Doctors
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Chicago Magazine Names Cardiologists at Rush Among Top Heart Doctors

Released: 29-May-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Genes Found Related to the Reduction of Proteins That Contribute to Alzheimer’s Onset
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In the ongoing quest for a successful treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, a team of scientists from several leading research institutions have created a map of the molecular network in the aging brain.

24-May-2018 5:00 AM EDT
South Asian-Americans at Higher Risk for Heart Disease and Stroke
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South Asians living in the United States are more likely to die of heart conditions caused by atherosclerosis, such as heart attacks and strokes, than East Asians and non-Hispanic whites in the U.S.

Released: 11-May-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Rush is First to Use Microburst Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
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Epilepsy patients who have not responded to standard drug treatments may benefit from a new therapy that delivers high frequency bursts of electrical stimulation, called microbursts, to the brain. Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is the first health care provider in the world to provide this treatment, known as microburst vagus nerve stimulation.

Released: 11-May-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Multi-Drug Resistant Infections Rising in Children
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Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections, one of the most common hospital-acquired infections in children across the United States, are on the rise, according to results of a recent study published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society on March 22.

Released: 11-May-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Exploring the Connection Between Diet, Gut Microbes and Cognitive Decline
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Are abnormal intestinal microorganisms a risk factor for developing cognitive impairment? Researchers at Rush University Medical Center are trying to answer that question with a new study that will explore how the intestinal microbiota – the bacteria in the intestine –influence the progression of cognitive decline and the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Released: 25-Apr-2018 9:00 AM EDT
Rush University Celebrating 46th Commencement
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Rush University will recognize more than 800 graduating students at its 46th commencement ceremony Saturday, April 28, from 2-4 p.m. at the UIC Pavilion (525 S. Racine Ave., Chicago).

Released: 12-Apr-2018 3:05 PM EDT
Focus on Epilepsy in Older Adults
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Rush has launched the first comprehensive epilepsy clinic in Chicago dedicated to treating epilepsy in older adults, serving a population that is often not optimally treated.

Released: 6-Apr-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Expanded Rush Program Provides Relief from Pelvic Floor Conditions
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Newly expanded, the Program for Abdominal and Pelvic Health at Rush brings together a team of experts to address the complexity of pelvic health conditions and treat men and women suffering from them.

20-Mar-2018 12:05 AM EDT
U.S. News Ranks Rush University Programs Among Best in the Nation
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Rush University received high marks in the 2019 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings released March 20, with eight College of Nursing programs and one College of Health Sciences program ranked in the top five in the country.

   
Released: 13-Mar-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Thyroid Gene Variation May Increase Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans
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African Americans with a common genetic variation are at increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, while European Americans with the same variation are not, according to a study led by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. They published the study results in the February 22 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Released: 13-Mar-2018 3:45 PM EDT
Rush is First in Illinois to Offer Novel Treatment for Neuroendocrine Tumors
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Patients with metastatic neuroendocrine cancer no longer have to travel abroad or out of state for a sought-after targeted therapy called peptide receptor radionuclide therapy, or PRRT. Rush University Medical Center is one of the few health care providers in the United States to currently offer this therapy.

7-Mar-2018 4:00 PM EST
Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Expert Awarded Top Prize for Dementia Research
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Dr. David Bennett has been awarded the 2018 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Brain Foundation. Sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of Alzheimer’s research, the Potamkin Prize is an internationally recognized tribute in the field.

Released: 1-Mar-2018 5:05 PM EST
New Procedure Brings Chemo to Melanoma
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Surgical oncologist Dr. Cristina O’Donoghue is one of less than 30 surgeons in the country to trained to perform isolated limb infusion, which delivers high doses of chemotherapy to an affected arm or leg but not the rest of the body

Released: 28-Feb-2018 3:05 PM EST
Rush Leads Multi-Sector Partnership Build Community Health
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6 hospital, Multi-NGO efforts seeks to improve health by healing neighborhoods

Released: 26-Feb-2018 4:45 PM EST
DASH-Style Diet Associated With Reduced Risk of Depression
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Eating a diet that emphasizes vegetables, fruit and whole grains it may lead to a reduced risk of depression, according to a study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. Study author Dr. Laurel Cherian will present a preliminary study abstract with these conclusions during the American Academy of Neurology’s 70th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles from April 21 to 27, 2018.

Released: 20-Feb-2018 4:05 PM EST
Study Finds Protein Levels in Spinal Fluid Correlate to Posture and Gait Difficulty in Parkinson’s Disease
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Levels of a protein found in the brain called alpha-synuclein (α-syn) are significantly lower than normal in cerebrospinal fluid collected in Parkinson’s disease patients suffering from postural instability and gait difficulty, a study led by movement disorders experts at Rush University Medical Center has found.

Released: 14-Feb-2018 2:05 AM EST
Everyday Activities Associated with More Gray Matter in Brains of Older Adults
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Higher levels of lifestyle physical activity – such as house cleaning, walking a dog and gardening, as well as exercise – are associated with more gray matter in the brains of older adults, according to a study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center.

Released: 1-Feb-2018 4:00 PM EST
Study: Chaplains Crucial for Advance Care Planning in Medical Practice
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In a study, 80 percent of participants completed an advance directive after meeting with a chaplain as part of a doctor’s appointment

24-Jan-2018 11:05 AM EST
MIND Diet May Slow Cognitive Decline in Stroke Survivors
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A diet created by researchers at Rush University Medical Center may help substantially slow cognitive decline in stroke survivors, according to preliminary research presented on Jan. 25, at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2018 in Los Angeles. The finding are significant because stroke survivors are twice as likely to develop dementia compared to the general population.

12-Jan-2018 9:45 AM EST
The Joffrey Ballet Selects Doctors at Rush University Medical Center to be Company Physicians
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The internationally-acclaimed Joffrey Ballet has chosen Rush University Medical Center as the Company’s preferred medical center for treatment.



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