News
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Blood Test Spots Hidden Pancreatic Cancer After Treatment
A highly sensitive blood test can detect traces of pancreatic cancer missed by standard testing, potentially helping physicians identify patients whose disease is more likely to return even when scans appear reassuring.
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‘Leaky’ Muscle Fibers Drive Immune Response in Muscular Dystrophy
A Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered how chronic defects in muscle membrane repair can fuel harmful inflammation, according to the study published in JCI Insight.
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Daylight Saving Time Impacts Risk of Retinal Vascular Disease
For the first time, Northwestern Medicine scientists have detailed how autumn and spring daylight saving time transitions impact a person’s risk of developing retinal vascular disease, according to a recent study published in Scientific Reports.
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Immune Receptor Plays Dual Role in Promoting T-cell Exhaustion in Cancer
A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered how a key immunoregulatory receptor plays an unexpected dual role in promoting T-cell exhaustion during chronic infection and cancer, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Treating a Rare Form of Obesity Caused by Brain Injury
A rare condition that causes rapid, uncontrollable weight gain can now be treated, according to a recent phase 3 clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Center for Community Health Hosts 2026 Community-Engaged Research Conference
The 2026 Community-Engaged Research Conference drew scores of community leaders and their academic partners for a day-long exchange of stories and ideas cultivated in the pursuit of improving the health of all Chicagoans.
Media Coverage
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The Washington Post
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7 Things a Morning Headache Can Reveal About Your Health
Sometimes, head pain early in the day means you just slept wrong. Other times, it could be a sign of a health condition. “As a sleep doctor, we always ask, ‘Do you wake up in the morning with a headache?’” said
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CBS News Chicago
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Chicago air quality worst in the world as Canada wildfire smoke chokes skies; beaches closed, events canceled
Chicago air quality is now hazardous as Canadian wildfire smoke has settled in an acrid haze over the area Thursday morning. “The stuff that you’re seeing there on the images of the skyline are actually the less risky particles,” said Dr. Scott Budinger, chief of pulmonary and critical care at Northwestern Medicine.
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WGN
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Northwestern Thoracic Surgeon on Rare Quadruple-Organ Transplant
Dr. Chitaru Kurihara, thoracic surgeon and surgical director of the Lung Transplant Program at Northwestern Medicine, joins John Williams to share details surrounding the first known quadruple-organ transplant involving retransplanted lung that Northwestern surgeons performed.
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ABC 7 Chicago
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Chicago Weather: High Temperatures, Air Quality Alert for Area as Wildfire Smoke Approaches
Dr. Justin Fiala, a pulmonologist with the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute says because of high levels of ozone pollution, people with respiratory issues or ailments probably should stay inside. “So for people with asthma or COPD, they can end up with kind of an acute attack because of those things,” Dr. Fiala said. “Other…
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WebMD
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What Do the Daraxonrasib Study Results Really Mean, and What’s Next?
At the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting, doctors stood and applauded after researchers presented results from a major study on daraxonrasib for pancreatic cancer: a nearly doubling of median survival rates. Gladys Rodriguez, MD, an assistant professor and gastrointestinal medical oncologist at Northwestern Medicine, says most people with metastatic pancreatic cancer (cancer that’s…
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CBS News Chicago
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Iowa Woman Gets Rare Quadruple Organ Transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital earlier this year performed the nation’s first known quadruple organ transplant on a patient with a prior lung transplant. Following four months of recovery, Wehrle is now walking several miles a day. She personally thanked the doctors and her donors following this long journey.
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