Category: Press Releases

Elmhurst Hospital’s Bariatric and Weight Management Center has been accredited as a Comprehensive Center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP), a joint program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA) today announced it is enrolling patients in a clinical study designed to evaluate a potential new treatment option for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. The hospital is the only center to offer the study north of Niles, Illinois, and is the closest location to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The randomized pivotal study, called HER2CLIMB, will evaluate the investigational medication tucatinib in combination with standard treatments for patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer, with or without brain metastases.

Seeking to counter opioid abuse, AMITA Health has taken steps to tighten the use of opioid painkillers in its emergency rooms and to communicate its pain medication policies to ER patients.

OSF HealthCare is pleased to announce it has signed a letter of intent with Dewberry for the design and engineering of its new downtown Peoria Ministry headquarters.

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has been working with the Bausch Foundation, the independent charitable organization of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (Valeant) to secure a donation of nearly 800,000 tablets of vitamin K. The tablets will provide treatment for people who have suffered severe bleeding after using synthetic cannabinoids (spice, K2, etc.) laced with rat poison. A chemical found in rat poison, brodifacoum, prevents blood from clotting, resulting in severe bleeding. High doses of vitamin K taken over several months can help restore the blood’s ability to clot.