The UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Blog

The new year always brings a new opportunity for change, and this year more than possibly ever before, many of us feel there’s some room for improvement in our lives.

Here are some simple and effective...

Taking steps to improve your health before bariatric surgery can impact your overall weight loss and long-term wellness.

Here are four proactive strategies that you and your loved ones can use to keep you feeling your best:

Bariatric surgery is one of the few areas of medicine where people actively come to get well. Unlike appointments for the flu, acute gallbladder pain or a life-threatening diagnosis, seeing a medical...

Friday marked our last clinic day of the week. It seems impossible that a week has already gone by. Our team started the week as strangers and now we are like family.

On the fourth day of our mission trip to El Salvador, we set up our medical clinic at the Cooperativa de Pescadores Los Blancos, a fish market of sorts where vendors come to sell their goods. The...

We are seeing great partnerships evolve between our doctors, residents and medical student interpreters in El Salvador this week.