The Forefront

Brain tumors are rare, scary and can be quite serious. UChicago Medicine experts Bakhtiar Yamini, MD, and Lauren Singer, MD, discuss how brain tumors and brain cancer are diagnosed and treated.

By offering optional syphilis tests to most patients in the emergency department (ED), researchers were able to dramatically increase testing and diagnosis rates, particularly among pregnant people and those without symptoms.

John Ashcroft recently came to UChicago Medicine for the removal of a papillary fibroelastoma, a growth on his aortic valve that put him at risk for a heart attack or stroke.

Gage Wimmer lost more than 60 pounds after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. When his doctors ran out of treatment options, they referred the teen and his family to the inflammatory bowel disease specialists at the University of Chicago Medicine. They immediately got his disease under control with a new diet, different medication and disease monitoring using their state-of-the-art intestinal ultrasound. Today, the 18-year-old weighs 180 pounds, is back to playing lacrosse and attending the College of DuPage.