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Northwestern Medicine executive Kate Matousek has been named president of the health system’s Palos Hospital. “Kate is a highly respected leader who combines deep operational expertise with a genuine commitment to patients, physicians and team members,” Dr. Howard Chrisman, president and chief executive officer of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, said in a press release.
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Francesca Duncan’s team at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reports this month in Molecular Human Reproduction that the ovaries of old mice become infiltrated with immune cells and may secrete immune signals into the body. The consequences of these changes aren’t clear, but a similar transformation in humans could have health implications after…
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“The key plain takeaway: (This type of testing) may complement current screening by identifying lethal cancers that are otherwise undetected earlier and with limited downstream burden,” Dr. Mohamed Abazeed, chair and professor of radiation oncology at Northwestern University, who was not involved with the study, previously told USA TODAY.
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By 2040, 80 million American adults will be 65 or older. This massive shift threatens to overwhelm traditional hospital emergency rooms, which simply aren’t built for the unique needs of aging patients. To fix this, ER doctors like Scott Dresden, the director of Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations (GEDI) for Chicago’s Northwestern Medicine, are working to…
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In patients who take GLP-1s, many papers have found an association with a two- to four-fold increase in risk, which still makes the condition very rare, said Dr. Manjot Gill, a retina specialist and professor of ophthalmology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “The take-home message would be that while there…
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Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about the injury to Caleb Williams, if there is any difference between name-brand medicine or the generic version, the types of vaccines that are available right now, why he believes everyone should get a COVID…

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