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Kids Swimming
Children’s Health

Summer Safety Tips for Kids

How to keep children safe all summer long

The U.S. Supreme Court Building
Women’s Health

Rush’s Commitment to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care

Rush University Medical Center will continue to legally provide abortion care following Supreme Court ruling

Couple looking out window
Waterford Place

Keeping a Cancer Diagnosis Private

Choosing to keep her cancer diagnosis from friends and family, Anita and her husband found the support they needed at Waterford Place Cancer Resource Center

Ellen Bintz Meuch and her Swim Across America team gather for a photo
Cancer

‘We Must Never Give Up Hope’

Ellen Bintz Meuch supports RUSH cancer research annually through Swim Across America in honor of her late husband, aunt

Frank Mullally

Frank's Story

Celebrating over 20 years with a successful liver transplant

Woman boxing
Brain Health & Conditions

Study: Boxing May Ease Parkinson's Symptoms

Results highlight importance of exercise in treating the disease

Ernest Willingham
Community

Medical Assistant Addresses Senators on Gun Violence

'Our youth are terrified,' Ernest Willingham tells Senate Judiciary Committee

Cancer

Dad Inspired RUSH Doctor to Become a Surgeon

Gillian Alex, MD, whose father died of lung cancer, now cares for others with the disease

Urmeka T. Jefferson, PhD, RN
University

Nursing Faculty Member Receives Award for Excellence in Research

The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses honored Urmeka Jefferson, PhD, RN for her work to improve breastfeeding among Black mothers through app-based technologies

Locked-In Syndrome
Brain Health & Conditions

Life After Locked-In

Indiana woman moving, talking again after suffering rare, stroke-related paralysis