Cultural Cancer Care
Northwestern Medicine’s new breast cancer clinic focuses on Hispanic women Erika Aleman, of Berwyn, was diagnosed in 2022 with triple negative breast cancer — a particularly aggressive form of the disease. She received care at the Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern Medicine, where Spanish-speaking nurses and doctors helped her better understand the treatment process. Aleman […]
Same-Day Brain Surgery
Brain surgery is highly complex. But now, some people may be able to have brain surgery and go home the same day, says Osaama Khan, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Medicine. Khan, who spent several years developing the outpatient brain surgery protocol at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, saw the time was right to launch […]
New gene shown to cause Parkinson’s disease
Source: Northwestern University Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new cause of Parkinson’s disease: mutations in a gene called TMEM230. This appears to be the third gene definitively linked to confirmed cases of the common movement disorder. Scientists provided evidence of TMEM230 mutations in patients with Parkinson’s disease from both North America and Asia. They […]
