12/ 29/2008 - Former Head of Surgery Dr. Lloyd M. Nyhus, 1923-2008
Surgical pioneer Lloyd M. Nyhus died Dec. 15 at a nursing home in Glenview, Ill. He was 85. Nyhus, who developed and wrote extensively on hernia repair and surgical aspects of esophageal, gastric and duodenal diseases, was the Warren H. Cole Professor and Head of Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine for more than 20 years. more
12/19/2008 - UIC Surgeons Attempt to Restore Hearing to Patient with Rare Tumor
Physicians at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago performed a rare surgery this week to restore hearing to a deaf patient. Marisela Leon, 44, has neurofibromatosis type 2 -- a rare genetic condition that causes tumors to grow on nerves in the brain or spinal cord, but most commonly on the auditory nerve. Leon lost her hearing more than four years ago when surgery to remove a tumor damaged her auditory nerve. more
12/8/2008 - An Achilles Heel in Cancer Cells
[Embargoed for release: Monday, Dec. 8, noon EST] A protein that shields tumor cells from cell death and exerts resistance to chemotherapy has an Achilles heel, a vulnerability that can be exploited to target and kill the very tumor cells it usually protects, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago show in a new study published in the Dec. 9 issue of Cancer Cell. more