Identifying Immune Pathways Driving Aggressive Brain Cancers

A new study has uncovered a key mechanism that helps one of the deadliest brain cancers evade the immune system, according to the study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Understudied Enzyme Helps Pathogen Prosper, Study Finds

A new study has offered insight into how Staphylococcus aureus, a major human pathogen, fine-tunes its internal RNA degradation machinery to survive stress and potentially cause infection.

New Oral GLP-1 Drug Promotes Weight Loss in Obesity

A new strategy for delivering GLP-1 drugs to patients with obesity or who were overweight resulted in up to an 11 percent reduction in body weight after 36 weeks, according to a randomized phase II clinical trial.

Cryoprobe Improves Diagnostic Accuracy and Safety in Lung Biopsies

Transbronchial lung biopsy procedures performed with a 1.1 millimeter cryoprobe demonstrated higher diagnostic accuracy and safety than two-millimeter forceps in patients with lung nodules or masses and lung transplant, according to a recent trial.

Telestroke Program Provides Patients Faster Critical Care When Minutes Matter

The program features a two-way video and audio system and allows board-certified neurologists from the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to meet virtually with patients having strokes.

Monahan Named North Region Medical Director of Breast Surgery and Breast Health

Denise Monahan, MD, who joined Northwestern Medicine in 2016, was recently appointed Northwestern Health Network Medical Group director of Breast Surgery and Breast Health North Region.

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