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Recent News About Loyola Health System
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Loyola Medicine Offering Scalp Cooling Treatment to Reduce the Risk of Chemotherapy Hair Loss
Loyola Medicine is offering cancer patients a treatment that reduces the risk of hair loss by cooling the scalp.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Gastroenterologist, Charles McMahon, MD, Joins Loyola Medicine
Charles McMahon, MD, who specializes in treating gastrointestinal disorders, has joined Loyola Medicine.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Rethinking the Stroke Rule "Time is Brain"
Loyola Neurologist Who Coined Phrase Says Message Is Not So Simple Anymore
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Loyola Reverified as Level 1 Trauma Center
Loyola University Medical Center has been reverified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma as a Level 1 Trauma Center.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Loyola Offering Latest Technologies to Treat Bladder Cancer
Loyola Medicine uses the latest technologies to diagnose and treat bladder cancer, the fourth most common cancer in men.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Depression Screenings for Adolescents Included in Back-to-School Physicals at Loyola Medicine
With 20 percent of adolescents having experienced a depressive episode by the age of 18, Loyola Medicine pediatricians and primary care physicians will now screen patients ages 12-18 for depression during back-to-school physicals and routine office visits.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Only 10 Percent of Non-dialysis Kidney Patients Ever See a Dietitian
In patients with chronic kidney disease, medical nutrition therapy can slow the progression and significantly reduce healthcare costs.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Loyola Offering Intraoperative Radiation Therapy to Broad Range of Cancer Patients
Loyola Medicine is among the select centers that offer a broad range of cancer patients a leading-edge form of radiation therapy that is delivered during surgery.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Intractable Hiccups May Be More Common Than We Think
Everyone gets hiccups, but some people suffer intractable hiccups that last longer than a month, according to two Loyola Medicine neurologists.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Loyola Medicine, Palos Health First in Illinois to Offer MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy
The Loyola Center for Cancer Care & Research at Palos Health South Campus in Orland Park is the first center in Illinois – and only the fifth in the country – to offer a groundbreaking MRI-guided radiation therapy that targets tumors with millimeter precision.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Tendon Transfer Surgery Restores Hand and Arm Functions to Spinal Cord Injury Patient
After suffering a severe cervical spinal cord injury from a bad fall at work, Scott McConnell had little function remaining in his hands and arms. Loyola Medicine orthopaedic surgeon Michael Bednar, MD, was able to restore key functions with a series of operations called tendon transfers.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Loyola to Pursue NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center Designation
Loyola Medicine's Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine are expanding their renowned cancer program to advance the pursuit of National Cancer Institute designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM; José Biller, MD, is Co-Editor of New Textbook on Uncommon Causes of Stroke
Loyola Medicine neurologist José Biller, MD, is co-editor of an authoritative new textbook on uncommon causes of stroke.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Study Finds Robotic Surgery is as Effective as Open Surgery for Bladder Cancer
Robotic surgery is as effective as traditional open surgery in treating bladder cancer, according to a landmark study published in the journal Lancet.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: A Study on Bacteria in Female Bladders Could Lead to Improved Treatment of UTI's
Scientists and physicians at Loyola University Chicago and Loyola Medicine were the first to publish groundbreaking research that debunked the common belief that urine in healthy women is sterile.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: President-elect of Orthopaedic Nurses Certification Board is Loyola Medicine's Dorothy Pietrowski, MSN
Loyola Medicine's Dorothy Pietrowski, MSN, RN, ACNP, ONC, has been selected to serve as president-elect of the Orthopaedic Nurses Certification Board (ONCB).
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Floppy Eyelids May Be Sign of Sleep Apnea, Loyola Study Finds
A Loyola Medicine study is providing further evidence that floppy eyelids may be a sign of sleep apnea.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Loyola Medicine Kidney Specialist Receives Award in Humanities and Medical Ethics
Loyola Medicine kidney specialist Susan Hou, MD, who co-founded a clinic that provides free medical care to indigent people in the Bolivian rain forest, is co-recipient of the 2018 American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Excellence in Humanities and Medical Ethics Award. The other recipient is Dr. Hou's husband, Mark Molitch, MD, who co-founded the Centro Medico Humberto Parra along with Dr. Hou and a Bolivian physician, Douglas Villarroel, MD.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Kathy Kujawa, MD, PhD, Specialist in Movement Disorders, Joins Loyola Medicine
Kathy Kujawa, MD, PhD, a neurologist who specializes in treating Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, has joined Loyola Medicine.
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LOYOLA HEALTH SYSTEM: Loyola Medicine 5K Raises $135,000 for Pediatric Care and Research
On Sunday, June 3, more than 1,400 runners and walkers gathered for the seventh annual Loyola Medicine 5K Supporting Pediatric Care and Research, raising more than $135,000.