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  • Expert: Vaccinations, Information Key to Combating Intense Flu Season

    The current flu season appears to be one of the worst the U.S. has seen in years. Between Oct. 1 and Feb. 8, there were between 29 million and 51 million influenza cases in the U.S., according to a preliminary assessment by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tina Tan, MD – a professor…

  • Game-changing lung refrigerator serves transplant patients at Northwestern Medicine

    The lungs that Ankit Bharat, MBBS took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we’ve ever seen,” said Bharat, a thoracic surgeon and director of Northwestern Medicine’s Canning Thoracic Institute. A technology the institute adopted just months ago was…

  • AI-powered fitness revolutionizing workouts with adaptive equipment

    The age-old commitment to fitness is sprinting into new territory with the addition of artificial intelligence to gym equipment and apps. But there could be risk in racing toward the future of fitness, overcomplicating something that — for most people — should be simple. “I think that AI has a lot of potential and a…

  • Flu Cases Are Surging

    The high case counts right now are striking, given that this is the time of year when flu typically starts to slow down, said Susan R. Russell, MD, medical director at the medical intensive-care unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and associate professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care) at Northwestern University Feinberg School…

  • Effect of Behavioral Intervention on Reducing Care Overuse in Seniors Not Sustained

    Clinical decision support (CDS) aimed at reducing overuse of care in seniors does not yield durable changes in terms of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in older men, but is durable for reducing urinary overtesting, according to a research letter published online Feb. 11 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Lucia C. Petito, PhD, from the…

  • Juice Cleanses May Disrupt Gut Bacteria

    They may sound delicious and colorful, but there’s new evidence that juice cleanses can have negative health consequences — particularly due to a lack of an important kind of fiber. Researchers at Northwestern University found significant differences in gut and mouth bacteria between people following a juice-only diet versus diets that included whole foods. They…