Boosting Emotional Intelligence In Physicians Can Protect Against Burnout

A Loyola Medicine study demonstrates that an educational curriculum for resident physicians improves their emotional intelligence, which may help protect against burnout. Physician burnout has reached alarming levels, with one study finding it...
20-Sep-2018 7:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Loyola Medicine Pediatric Cancer Patient Drafted by Chicago Cubs

Teen baseball players overcomes cancer to see his dream of being drafted come true.
11-Sep-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Study Identifies Three Factors that Predict Life-threatening Respiratory Disease in Burn Patients

For the first time, researchers have devised a model to predict burn patients who are most likely to develop life-threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
28-Aug-2018 10:20 AM EDT Add to Favorites

As Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Cases Climb, Loyola Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist Offers Tips

Nadia Qureshi, MD, offers information about hand, foot and mouth disease.
23-Aug-2018 9:50 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Scalp Cooling Treatment Reduces Risk of Chemotherapy Hair Loss

Loyola Medicine is offering cancer patients a treatment that reduces the risk of hair loss by cooling the scalp. During chemotherapy sessions, the patient wears a silicone cooling cap. The cap contains a circulating coolant that reduces the...
17-Aug-2018 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

One Antiplatelet Drug After Heart Valve Replacement Works as Well as Two, with Fewer Complications

Treatment guidelines say patients who undergo minimally invasive aortic heart valve replacements should receive two antiplatelet drugs to reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots. A Loyola Medicine study has found that a single antiplatelet drug...
13-Aug-2018 6:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Rethinking the Stroke Rule "Time is Brain"

In 1993, neurologist Camilo Gomez, MD, coined a phrase that became a fundamental rule of stroke care: "Time is brain!" The longer therapy is delayed, the less chance it will succeed. But the "time is brain" rule is not as simple as it once seemed,...
13-Aug-2018 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Only 10 Percent of Non-Dialysis Kidney Patients Ever See a Dietitian

In patients with chronic kidney disease, medical nutrition therapy can slow the progression and significantly reduce healthcare costs.But 90 percent of non-dialysis kidney disease patients never meet with a dietitian, according to a report in the...
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