After semitrailer crash, a trucker receives life-changing brain tumor diagnosis and 'awake' operation
After Donald Schwartz's semitrailer crashed, doctors performed brain surgery on him while he was awake to remove a cancerous tumor.
Patients with diabetes insulin-free for years after islet transplantation
Advances developed at UChicago Medicine — the most active islet transplant center in the U.S. — allow patients long-term freedom from diabetes following a single islet transplant procedure.
New data: UChicago Medicine’s Heart Transplant Program earns country’s highest marks for success
New data show UChicago Medicine's heart transplant program has the best one-year survival rate and the fastest time to transplant, while also transplanting the highest percentage of African American patients in the U.S.
