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WBEZ: How One Chicago-Area Family Survived COVID-19

Sandy Wilson-Muriel and her mother Gladys Wilson were the first in their family to get sick with COVID-19 in mid-March.

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Specialized Immune Cells May Improve Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease

The elevated presence of specialized immune cells called alpha-synuclein reactive T-cells found in patients prior to developing motor symptoms and receiving a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, suggests that increased reactivity of these cells may be present long before clinical diagnosis.

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Battling COVID-19: Filmmaker Spends Month in Hospital, Weeks in Rehab

Gordon Quinn couldn’t speak. But he desperately needed to tell his doctors something.

The 77-year-old world-renowned documentarian was finally off a ventilator, for the second time.  He had just been helped into a sitting position for the first time in weeks. But now they were talking about putting him on a ventilator for a third time. 

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Gordon Quinn gets rehab after COVID-19

‘It’s one thing to survive the infection, but what’s next?’ Some COVID-19 patients need rehab to walk, talk and problem solve

Quinn, like many severely ill COVID-19 patients, found that surviving the disease was merely the first leg of the journey to overcoming it.

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Chicago Pain Center’s Multidisciplinary Program Sees the Whole Patient, ‘Not Just a Back or Arm’

The AbilityLab Pain Management Center treats patients with a multitude of pain conditions, including low back, neck and arthritis pain, fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome.

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Dr. Monica Rho, Team Physician for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team

Keeping the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team Healthy and Injury Free

Staying healthy and injury-free is a critical role, tasked to team physician Dr. Monica Rho, the chief of musculoskeletal medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

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Woman struck by stray bullet during West Englewood drive-by released from hospital

She was taken to Christ Hospital in critical condition and then treated at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab. She had to re-learn how to walk and talk.

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Chicago Health: Controlling Chronic Pain

“…we want to put the patient in control and teach them how to better manage their pain,” says Dr. Shana Margolis, attending physician at AbilityLab.

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Dr. Monica Rho, Chief of musculoskeletal medicine at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Dr. Monica Rho Named to Crain's Chicago Business' 2019 40 Under 40

Dr. Monica Rho, Chief of musculoskeletal medicine at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, named to Crain's Chicago Business' 2019 40 Under 40.

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Joanne C. Smith, MD, president and CEO of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Homewood Mayor Rich Hofeld and Illinois State Senator Napoleon B. Harris, and others cut the ribbon at the new Homewood DayRehab Center

Ribbon-cutting Opens New Shirley Ryan AbilityLab DayRehabCenter®

New Shirley Ryan AbilityLab DayRehab Center®

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A Day in the Life: Performing Arts Physician Saves Careers by Fine-tuning Artists’ Form

Maria Reese, MD, still remembers landing in a Tennessee emergency department with a knee injury as a young dancer. The prognosis was grim: she would never dance again. Reese recently recalled “being devastated and thinking I'll prove that to be wrong, I'll get back to dancing.” And she did.

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Former College Hoops Star Fights MS: 'She's Not Going To Give Up'

After insurance refused to pay for six-figure stem-cell transplant, Jasmine Matthews kept fighting, launching a Go Fund Me campaign.

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