With every cancer diagnosis comes many questions, including what treatment options the patient has. Surgery was the only option for Lori Isack when she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2020. But when her cancer returned earlier this year, Lori learned about an alternative. That alternative...
The Lewis family drives an hour-and-a-half from their home in Gary to Beacon Children’s Hospital at least once a month, oftentimes more, to receive lifesaving treatment for three of their five kids. “We shouldn’t have to drive 60 miles out of the way to get the...
If you have been feeling increased joint pain the past few weeks, you can blame it on weather. Falling temperatures can make your arthritis feel more painful and stiffness worsen. [caption id="attachment_53590" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Alyssa Erskine[/caption] Joint pain is fairly common, and it can happen at...
This week, we spoke with Beacon Medical Group President Dale Patterson and members of our Beacon Infection Prevention team about the status of COVID at Beacon and in our community. We have recently seen an increase in: COVID-related emergency department visits at Beacon Community flu-like illness...
RSV infections are increasing across the country, including here in our region. We sat down with Dr. Kate Dutkiewicz, Beacon Children’s Hospital medical director, to talk about the recent uptick in pediatric RSV cases and hospitalizations and explain how this year is the same or...
[caption id="attachment_53553" align="alignleft" width="317"] Steve Dewey and Tegan[/caption] It was in July of 2023 that Steve Dewey first began feeling a soreness in the back of his right leg. Over the course of just a couple weeks, it went from a sense of mild irritation to...
The fall and winter months can be tough on backs when many of us are outdoors doing chores like raking leaves and shoveling snow. At some point in our lives, most of us -- 84 percent, in fact -- will experience back pain. And while the...
Last week, a Miraculous Medal Ceremony took place at Memorial Hospital of South Bend to inspire the construction team to complete the new Memorial Patient Tower safely. The ceremony and medal tossing into the fresh concrete is a long-standing tradition for The Walsh Group at the...
[caption id="attachment_53510" align="alignright" width="480"] Lee Erdman (left), a South Bend Saint Joseph High School senior, Dr. Rajalakshmy Sundararajan, Emergency Medicine, and Dr. Scott Thomas, Emergency Medicine and Chief of Trauma Services, pose with their award-winning poster.[/caption] Award-winning and internationally recognized trauma center research led by Beacon...
[caption id="attachment_53489" align="alignright" width="426"] Credit: Laura Ault Photography[/caption] Drew Strasser, a healthy, athletic high school senior, was at tennis practice at his high school when he collapsed, no longer breathing. Practice had been indoors that day, a small detail that may well have saved Drew’s life. That’s...
