Northwestern Medicine hopes to improve treatment for AFib using an Apple Watch
Right now, the industry standards call for AFib patients to take blood thinners for the rest of their lives.
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Right now, the industry standards call for AFib patients to take blood thinners for the rest of their lives.
Five years ago, Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Medical Intensive Care Unit was in the process of being transformed into a COVID ICU.
Tuesday marks the milestone of five years since the World Health Organization labeled COVID-19 a pandemic. Sara Machi talked with some Northwestern Memorial Hospital health care workers who were there for it all.
Chicago saw its own measles outbreak just last year — affecting in particular the migrant shelter in operation at the time in Pilsen.
Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program began 10 years ago.
Alex Timchak and his doctors agree that anyone facing a critical health issue should get a second opinion.
MaKenna Lauterbach developed a cough last December, and it continued to grow worse over the next few months.
The sisters share a special bond of getting a second chance at life, which they both received at the age of 38 years old.
Annesley Clark and Christine Corso were determined to say their vows before it was too late. So when Clark's nurses at Northwestern Medicine heard the couple's story, they jumped right into action.
Little Penelope Lo Destro's parents were about to start their family when there was a terrible diagnosis.
Cancer survivor Batbayar Tserendorj also ran the 2023 Chicago Marathon after delaying his liver transplant surgery, and giving the liver to someone else so he could run.
Doctors chose to keep Stackhouse awake during the transplant because he was at a higher risk of complications.
The list by U.S. News and World Report ranks hospitals based on several specialties.
The surgery took place back on May 24. The patient—John Nicholas, 28, of Chicago—was discharged to go home the day after the surgery. He said he felt no pain.
Arthur Gillespie, 56, discovered he had lung cancer while he was being treated for a severe case of COVID-19 in 2020.
Dr. Gary Gibbon is now cancer-free, six months after the first-ever lung-liver transplant on a cancer patient.
A California doctor who was battling advanced-stage lung cancer is now cancer-free, after surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital completed the first-ever lung and liver transplant on a cancer patient.
Shakira Sanchez-Collins is a determined pastor who can move a room with her words – and she touches hearts and minds as a physician.
Northwestern Medicine notes that people who are nonbinary, intersex, or transgender sometimes choose to use the "X" designation on government identification documents.
Davey Bauer, 34, vaped for years, and caught the flu, causing both of his lungs to become infected, requiring him to undergo a double lung transplant.
The new clinic aims to give Hispanic women critical access to care and treatment once they've been diagnosed.
Scientists at the Field Museum showed Josh Burton ways he can still have a career without digging in the dirt.
"It decreases the complications of the transplant. It tends to decrease the amount of time that a person has to stay in the hospital after a transplant."
Northwestern has been studying patients at its Comprehensive COVID-19 Center since May 2020.
"What didn't she know? Where did we fail? Did she not know that she could place this child in a loving home?" said Illinois State Sen. Sara Feigenholtz.
