Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files. “We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & The Capitol Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” The inside story 🧵

Congratulations to Stritch School of Medicine Loyola Chicago MS2 students Joseph F Zywiciel Jr and Aimee Thomas showing use of coronary interventions before 🫁 transplant at #ISHLT2023 Krishnan Warrior @BBPulmDoc Chirantan Mangukia

CAR T cell therapy + CellCept leading to durable myositis control in a patient with antisynthetase syndrome. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Born with cystic fibrosis, at 26 Michele received a lung transplant. Now she can conquer mountains. “There are not enough words to describe how grateful I am for my donor,” she says. #GivingTuesday #DonateLife Help make more futures possible 🔗: bit.ly/46ybuAK

NEW! In collaboration with the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, we’ve developed a new Position Statement on pulmonary hypertension and interstitial lung disease. Read it now at pulmonaryfibrosis.org/positionstatem…

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Please help us welcome Krishnan Warrior, MD as he joins our Pulmonary & Critical Care team as an Assistant Professor of Medicine! NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery #welcome #northwesternmedicine #internalmedicine #nmim

Pulmonologist: do you have any exposure to wild birds? Patient: umm…

🫁 PRESS RELEASE: Northwestern Medicine performed 148 lung transplants in 2024, becoming the highest volume lung transplant center in the United States. NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery also achieved the shortest wait time for a lung transplant, with a median wait time of four days. buff.ly/3CEbaa1

By combining cutting-edge technologies such as “lungs in a box” and “lungs in a fridge,” Northwestern Medicine's NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery was able to widen the donor pool and shorten the wait time for 🫁 patients, including those with advanced-stage #cancers. PRESS RELEASE: buff.ly/3CEbaa1

Join us in congratulating Chitaru Kurihara, MD (Chitaru Kurihara, MD), for receiving an R01 award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute titled, “Pathological activation of integrated stress response as a driver of Chronic allograft dysfunction after lung transplant." Congrats

In this period of uncertainty, the University will fund research that is subject to stop-work orders or the federal funding freeze, President Schill and Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris announced today. ▶️ spr.ly/60152zZAv

I’ve published in Chest. This is blatant political intimidation of our medical journals, this is absolutely Orwellian stuff.

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A man battling stage 4 lung cancer was preparing to fly across the country for a life-changing double-lung transplant when his insurance company denied him coverage. abc7.la/4d8mWaq

She left her life in #Germany for a second chance at life. After being added to the transplant waiting list NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery on Christmas Eve, Cornelia received new lungs two days later. #lungcancer #lungtransplant #MothersDay #Chicago PRESS RELEASE: buff.ly/8UhqZTa

From the SOLSTICE study, Maribavir shows effectiveness for post-transplant CMV viremia clearance and fewer treatment discontinuations due to adverse events, as compared to investigator-assigned treatments. 🔗: jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

The Northwestern Memorial Hospital Pulmonology and Lung Surgery Program has been ranked No. 7 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, 2025 – 2026. Thank you to NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery team for your commitment to advancing lung health. breakthroughsforphysicians.nm.org/pulmonary