Hospitals in Oak Lawn, IL - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Advocate Christ Hospital & Medical Center
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 4440 W 95th Street, Oak Lawn, Illinois 60453
Ratings: Phone: (708) 684-8000

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MusculoskeletalNetwork features special coverage of sessions from ACR annual meeting

UBM Medica US announces that MusculoskeletalNetwork features special coverage of sessions from the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), including the latest information about new FDA processes for approval of biosimilars that are like generic versions of expensive medications now used to treat painful rheumatologic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Study highlights need for increased vigilance when using GFAP, UCH-L-1 as potential biomarkers of mTBI

In patients who suffered acute orthopedic injuries, two proposed biomarkers for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) were not able to distinguish between patients who did or did not have mTBI.

Lancet experts call for evidence-based approach to drug policy

Fifty years of drug policies aimed at restricting and criminalizing drug use and minor possession have had serious detrimental effects on the health, wellbeing and human rights of drug users and the wider public, according to a major new report by The Lancet and Johns Hopkins University in the US

Gamma Knife vs. craniotomy to treat epilepsy

For about 25 percent of patients suffering from epilepsy, medications do not effectively control the disease and stop seizures. For some, epilepsy surgery is the best answer. In the past, epilepsy surgery meant a craniotomy, which requires a surgeon to open the patient's skull to remove the brain lesion causing epilepsy.

Chemotherapy drugs can induce mutations that lead to relapse in pediatric ALL patients

Chemotherapy has helped make acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) one of the most survivable childhood cancers.

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