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Learn about the first wound care center in Illinois to embrace autologous blood-based therapy.

Hip pain nearly benched former NBA player Ronnie Grandison from the active life he loves. Thanks to ultra-minimally invasive hip replacements at Endeavor Health, he’s walking, hiking, and playing…

Photo by: Ronit Bezalel When musician and audio-visual technician Jason Ledgard suddenly could not hear out of his left ear, he found a partner in healing at the Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center at…

Since receiving radiation therapy for prostate cancer in 2019, Kenneth Micetich, MD, a retired oncologist from Maywood, has remained cancer-free. However, in 2020, he began having episodes of blood in…

A self-proclaimed outlier in the world of metastatic ovarian cancer, Janice Aull had five “delightful, healthy and productive” years after her initial rounds of treatment before a recurrence sent her…

Nadia Sheehan, 38, of Naperville, was out for a run with friends one afternoon last year when she began to experience a lot of pain in the right side of her head. “At first I thought it was just…

The aches and pains of aging or overusing a joint in a sport or activity is something most can relate to. For Tony Scarpino, it was 30 years of golf that brought him into the office of Zahab Ahsan, MD…

Mary Keough Ledman got a do-over. The Illinois-based global dairy economist had the chance to undergo a nonsurgical weight loss procedure that ended up being truly life-changing. Previously battling…

All children are miracles in a way. Shelly Battista’s twins — who were born two years to the day after she celebrated becoming cancer free — are truly medical miracles. At 34, when Battista was still…

“Sciatic nerve pain is not something anyone wants to live with,” Tony Biondo, 56, of Naperville said. It took one final run for Biondo to realize he could no longer let it impact his quality of life…

In July 2022, Seth Hutchinson was going about his day when he noticed the right side of his body felt a bit heavy. “And not normal heavy,” Seth said.

In August 2022, Thomas Gilmore, of Naperville, was stopped due to heavy traffic on the Stevenson Expressway and was rear-ended by a car going approximately 40 miles per hour — an accident that left…