- August 5, 2013
Tags: heart attack, Advocate Health, AMG, Advocate Medical Group, health enews, Heart, Valve Replacement, Advocate Christ Medical Center Heart and Vascular Institute, mechanical assist devices, heart failure, heart transplant, heart valve replacement, CPR, VAD, ventricular assist device, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Read the touching story of a patient who reunites with the nurse who helped save his life.
- July 22, 2013
Tags: heart attack, health enews, Advocate Health Care, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, heart disease, running, marathon, Chicago Marathon, young hearts, half
A 33-year-old Chicago man shares how he is preparing to run the Chicago Marathon after surviving a heart attack last year.
- July 10, 2013
Tags: PTSD, Advocate Condell Medical Center, traumatic brain injury, art, war, post-traumatic stress disorder, TBI, art therapy
An art exhibit in suburban Chicago offers an artistic way for veterans to heal.
- June 20, 2013
Tags: Advocate Children’s Hospital, Chicago Cubs, baseball, Wrigley Field, Emily Beazley, pediatric patients
Fifteen pediatric patients from Advocate Children’s Hospital in Illinois got a chance to spend Father’s Day on the field of dreams.
- June 10, 2013
Pediatric and oncology patients get lots of love from some very special four-legged friends.
- May 24, 2013
Tags: Advocate Health, AMG, Advocate Medical Group, health enews, Heart, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Aortic Stenosis, Bypass Surgery, Valve Replacement, Minimally Invasive, TAVR, Advocate Christ Medical Center Heart and Vascular Institute, heart health, Advocate Christ Medical Center
TAVR: It may sound foreign, but it’s the next big thing in heart care and it’s helping to heal plenty of hearts.
- May 21, 2013
Tags: health enews, Advocate Children’s Hospital – Oak Lawn, heart defect, congenital heart defect, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, HLHS
Ian McDonagh was one of the first infants in North America to survive surgery for two extremely rare heart defects. A decade later, Grey’s Anatomy recaps his miraculous story.
















