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Six months after having a double lung transplant to replace his cancerous lungs, Chicagoan Albert Khoury has no signs of cancer left in his body. According to Dr. Young Chae, a medical oncologist with Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern Medicine, six months after the transplant, “We’re thrilled with Albert’s progress. He doesn’t require oxygen and is leading a normal life.”

Airlines want to drop the federal mask mandate on flights, arguing that they are no longer necessary because of dropping infection rates. Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said that for most healthy Americans who are vaccinated against COVID-19, eliminating masks on flights is unlikely to pose a serious risk. But the calculation changes if you’re seated near someone infected with disease.

A Chicago man underwent a seven-hour surgery to receive new lungs at Northwestern Medicine in September. According to Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine “For patients with stage 4 cancer, lung transplantation is considered a complete ‘no-no,’ but because [the patient’s] cancer was confined only to his chest, we were confident we could clear all the cancer during surgery and save his life.”

Moderna says early findings suggest the vaccine may protect against severe illness in kids just as it does in adults. According to Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, a lull in COVID cases could be “the best time to get immunized because then you’ll be protected by the time the next surge starts.” Muller is a researcher for Moderna’s pediatric studies.

Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double lung transplant on a man with terminal lung cancer. His new lungs are now working well, and he seems to be cancer-free. Lung transplants should not replace standard treatments for lung caner, which can include surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiation, said Dr. Ankit Bharat, Northwestern chief of thoracic surgery.

In a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, authors from Kaiser Permanente, the Permanente Medical Group, the University of California San Francisco and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said that from 2019 to 2020 the estimated age-adjusted mortality rate increased by 15.9%, largely due to COVID-19 mortality. Rates of stroke and heart disease also increased by 4.3% and 6.4%, respectively.

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers – the company announced Wednesday. Vaccinating the littlest “has been somewhat of a moving target over the last couple months,” Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, who is helping study Moderna’s pediatric doses.

Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Vaccinating the littlest “has been somewhat of a moving target over the last couple months,” said Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, who is helping study Moderna’s pediatric doses.

According to Moderna, the company’s COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, who is helping study Moderna’s pediatric doses, shared “There’s still, I think, a lingering urgency to try to get that [vaccinating young children] done as soon as possible.”

Permanently moving to daylight-saving time is likely to cause more harm than good when it comes to our health, according to sleep scientists. Because a human’s internal clock is tied to the sun, when the clock springs forward, internal clocks don’t change. According to Phyllis Zee, professor of neurology and director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, “Of the three choices – permanent daylight-saving time, permanent standard time or where we are now, which is switching between the two – I think permanent DST is the worst solution”