Valley West Medical Center
Recent News About Valley West Medical Center
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Earns Prestigious Lantern Award
The Emergency Nurses Association will bestow the Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Emergency Department with its prestigious Lantern Award.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: “Kicking it for Cancer” Donates over $6000 to Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital Cancer Center
More than 50 Taekwondo students symbolically and benevolently targeted cancer at the recent “Kicking it for Cancer” break-a-thon at Sycamore High School.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Top 10 Finish for Northwestern Medicine in Chicago’s Bike to Work Challenge
Northwestern Medicine finished sixth place in the annual Bike to Work Challenge, organized by the Active Transportation Alliance (ATA).
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Clinical Trials Show Promise in Leukemia
Two drugs that target different mutations showed encouraging results in treating leukemia, according to recent clinical trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and The Lancet Oncology.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Mapping Calcium Channels Provides New Insights into Disease
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the inner workings of an important calcium channel, with implications for the treatment of disease, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Leading World-Class Investigations Into Infectious Diseases
Growing threats of antimicrobial resistance. Emerging diseases like dengue and Zika. Complications of aging with HIV/AIDS — and the continued quest to develop a cure.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Novel App Switches You to Healthier Food Options
App rates nutritional value of packaged foods, suggests better products, includes optional salt filter.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Men With Aggressive Prostate Cancer May Get New Powerful Drug Option
Drug delays metastasis and/or death in men with rising PSA despite hormone therapy.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Medical Student Helps Shape Curriculum and Wellness
Even as a busy medical student, Sean Jenvay takes time to play an active role in helping to shape Feinberg’s curriculum and community.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Memorial Hospital First in Illinois to Complete Robotic Tracheoplasty on Patient with Tracheobronchomalacia
Minimally invasive procedure only second in the country performed on life-threatening airway disorder.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Medicine Receives Grant to Lead Research into Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke
The American Heart Association recently selected Northwestern Medicine as one of six centers to be part of a new, grant-funded national network dedicated to researching and understanding the causes of atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular heartbeat.