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Being Empathetic May Take the Sting out of Blood Draws

October 29, 2019

Empathetic and courteous health care providers may help decrease patients’ experience of pain, especially pain during blood draws, according to researchers at Rush University Medical Center.
Combination of More Hospitalizations and Brain Pathologies Linked to Faster Cognitive Decline

October 22, 2019

Older people who experienced more hospitalizations and also had more Alzheimer’s pathology in their brain experienced the fastest rates of cognitive decline, according to study results published in the Oct. 15 online issue of the Annals of Neurology.
Two Rush Hospitals Among 'Most Wired' in U.S.

October 7, 2019

Rush University Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital were both recently ranked among the "Most Wired" in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare magazine and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.
Providing Help for Young Minds at Risk

September 19, 2019

Rush has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to increase access to high quality early mental health interventions for children on Chicago's West Side.
Pain Relief Without Opioids

September 9, 2019

In an effort to decrease opioid use and curb the current trend of opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose deaths, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have developed a strategy of implementing opioid-sparing multimodal analgesia to manage pain in surgical patients.