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CHICAGO — Delaying vending machines’ delivery of tempting, high-calorie snacks can shift people’s choices to less popular but healthier options, a first-of-its-kind, National Institutes of Health-funded study has foun…
Careers
We conduct frontline research across the spectrum of bioengineering, brain research and neuroscience, new advances in pharma, and big data approaches to solving critical health challenges. Our students go on to jobs r…
Innovation, Patient Care
CHICAGO — Code, an innovator in mobile enterprise data capture and leader in image-based barcode scanning technology, is adding to its impressive health care product portfolio with an industry first, “mobile HIS barco…
Research
Experts discuss stem cell treatments for cancer, neurosurgery, orthopedics, pediatrics The use of stem cells in medical treatments already is yielding exciting results and may yield greater medical advances in the fu…
Student Stories, RUSH Medical College
A gap year wasn’t part of Emil Maric’s original plan. Rather, Maric — who received his bachelor‘s degree from Illinois Wesleyan, in Bloomington, Illinois, last spring — hoped to jump right into medical school after gr… Related News View All News…
Innovation, Patient Care
The choice between saving one’s limb or one’s life may seem obvious. However, surgical oncologist Cristina O'Donoghue, MD, MPH, knows the decision is emotionally wrenching for patients with advanced melanoma or sarcom…
Community
CHICAGO - West Side United, a group of Chicago health care institutions, residents, civic leaders and health care professionals that includes Rush University Medical Center, today outlined a broad series of healt…
Alumni, College of Nursing
Spring is a time for renewal and growth. I’m proud to report that Rush is embarking on a renewal of its own through the Rush System for Health. We are uniting clinical, research and education endeavors in a new way. L…
Student Stories, College of Health Sciences
As the excitement of graduation fades away, the reality of making big life decisions looms ahead. For Bethelhem Markos, the best decision-making strategy for moving forward after earning her undergraduate degree: step…
Research, RUSH Medical College
Weightlessness takes a paradoxically heavy toll on astronauts who spend extended periods of time in zero gravity. A researcher at Rush is helping lead a National Institutes of Health-sponsored study that’s trying to h…
