South Side resident takes part in rare sickle cell disease clinical trial through UChicago Medicine

After managing sickle cell disease (SCD) throughout her life, Lyric Porter became the first patient in Illinois — and the third in the world — to participate in an SCD gene therapy clinical trial at UChicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital.

Hospital at Home: New Program Brings the Hospital to Patients' Homes

The University of Chicago Medicine successfully enrolled and treated the first patient in its Hospital at Home program. This initiative, supported by decades of research to be beneficial to patient experience and care outcomes, brings hospital-level treatment to a patient's home.