Rush COVID-19 Research in the News

September 24, 2020

• Patients with COVID-19 may have higher risk of kidney injury
  ScienceDaily
  
  According to Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, the Ralph C Brown MD professor and chairperson of Rush’s Department of Internal Medicine, patients with COVID-19 experience elevated levels of soluble urokinase receptor (suPAR), an immune-derived pathogenic protein that is strongly predictive of kidney injury.

June 25, 2020

• Researchers provide evidence-based review on COVID-19 respiratory transmission
  The Medical News
• Coughs, sneezes and talking can all spread the coronavirus - and some particles can spread more than EIGHT FEET through the air, study finds
  DailyMail Online

News features on a review of how coughing and sneezing affect respiratory transmission of viruses, coauthored by Jie Li, PhD, RRT, associate professor, Department of Cardiopulmonary Services, Division of Respiratory Care, Rush University Medical Center

June 11, 2020

• Health care workers at Rush invited to participate in national PCORnet study of hydroxychloroquine
  Science Magazine
  This feature on Rush’s Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes of Hydroxychloroquine (HERO-HCQ) Trial among health care workers (now closed for enrollment) quotes Yoona Rhee, assistant professor of infectious diseases and the primary investigator of the study.

May 22, 2020

• Asthma Tied to Longer COVID-19 Intubation Time
  Physician’s Weekly
• Asthma Tied to Longer COVID-19 Intubation Time
  Drugs.com
• Data Suggest Asthma Associated With Longer Time on Ventilators for Younger COVID-19 Patients
  Pharmacy Times
• COVID: Asthma Ups Ventilator Needs of Young Adults
  WebMD
  News features on a study that found young to middle-aged asthmatics hospitalized for COVID-19 are likely to be on a ventilator longer than patients without asthma. Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, MD, PhD, chief of allergy and immunology in the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, is quoted as the study’s lead author.

May 16, 2020

• Heart attacks, heart failure, stroke: COVID-19’s dangerous cardiovascular complications
  Science Daily
  Findings from a new paper that details serious cardiovascular complications of coronavirus, including heart failure, heart attacks and blood clots that can lead to strokes, co-authored by Michael Gottlieb, MD, RDMS, director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division of Rush University Medical Center.

May 14, 2020

• Low-Tech Way to Help Some Covid Patients: Flip Them Over
  The New York Times
  This exploration of proning to improve breathing in coronavirus patients quotes Sara Hanif Mirza, MD, MS on Rush’s clinical trial of the technique.
• Study suggests a protein may predict severe COVID-19
  Medical News Today
  Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, discusses findings by researchers at Rush University Medical Center and other institutions suggesting that a protein called suPAR could be predictive of which patients with COVID-19 might need breathing support from ventilators.

May 12, 2020

• How Hospitals Will Decide Who Gets Remdesivir
  WTTW
  Principal investigator Shivanjali Shankaran, MD, discusses Rush’s clinical trial of remdesivir among 50 coronavirus patients.

May 5, 2020

• Protein found in blood can predict which COVID-19 patients may need breathing support, new study shows
  Media, Entertainment, Arts Worldwide
  Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, discusses findings by researchers at Rush University Medical Center and other institutions suggesting that a protein called suPAR could be predictive of which patients with COVID-19 might need breathing support from ventilators.

April 25, 2020

• Antibody test study at Chicago’s Rush hospital seeks to understand COVID-19 immunity
  ABC 7 News
  Associate chief medical officer Bala Hota, MD discusses a trial study underway at Rush University Medical Center to determine if antibodies can be an effective treatment for COVID-19.

April 22, 2020

• ‘Proning’ Is a Promising Treatment for Coronavirus—Here’s How It Works
  Health.com
  A look at applications of the proning technique in treating COVID-19 patients, including the clinical trial currently underway at Rush.

April 14, 2020

• ‘Such a simple thing to do’: Why positioning COVID-19 patients on their stomachs can save lives
  CNN
  David Vines, chair of the cardiopulmonary sciences department, talks about a Rush University Medical Center study of how the stomach position can benefit patients who require supplemental oxygen.

April 10, 2020

• New study at Rush Medical Center will have coronavirus patients lie facedown with oxygen to see if it saves them from having to go on ventilators
  Chicago Tribune
  David Vines, chair of the cardiopulmonary sciences department at Rush University Medical Center, describes a clinical trial to improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients by placing them in a prone position.
• New Initiative Aims to Build a Model Open COVID-19 Patient Data Registry Network
  AcademyHealth.org
  Rush University Medical Center has been awarded a grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Data for Action program to build a shared database with other sites to understand the COVID pandemic in the U.S.

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