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Study shows transplants boost survival for patients with terminal lung cancer Laura Rotunno in her Deerfield backyard on July 7, 2026, a year after receiving a lung transplant at Northwestern despite having stage IV lung cancer. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tr... See more

Trinity Audioplayer ready... Laura Rotunno didn’t think she had much longer to live. “My body has had enough,” Rotunno, of Deerfield, remembered thinking last year, under the weight of Stage 4 lung cancer. The color had drained from her face, she was on o... See more

Before she went into surgery, Elizabeth Wehrle knew that doctors wanted to transplant four new organs into her body. She didn’t know, at the time, that the operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital was potentially the first of its kind in the country — ... See more

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Some Illinois residents might find themselves running to the bathroom more often than usual this summer, amid higher numbers of cases of cyclosporiasis — an intestinal illness that can cause explosive diarrhea. kAmx==:?@:D 92D 925 `c` C6A@CE65 42D6D D@ 72... See more