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Investigative journalist at Chicago @Suntimes. Expert in consumer issues. Left Twitter for bluer skies. Find me there: @szreports.bsky.social
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Hospital billing was supposed to be made simpler, but federal law has failed, Sun-Times investigation finds Original

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By Stephanie Zimmermann Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
Five patients are at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge for a diagnostic echocardiogram. For the same noninvasive test of the heart, the five patients could each get different prices — as little as $973 or as much as $1,721, depending on their insurance provider and plan. If a patient is uninsured, they’d get a “discounted cash price” of $1,155 — hundreds of dollars less than those with certain insurance plans, according to the hospital’s publicly posted data.
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Antagonizing NRG1-ERBB4 signaling pathway with spironolactone for the treatment of schizophrenia: results of a randomized controlled drug repositioning clinical trial

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By Alkomiet Hasan, Stefan Leucht, Astrid Roeh, Berthold Langguth, Isabel Maurus, Wolfgang Strube, Moritz J. Rossner, Michael Wehr, Ingrid Bauer, Peter Kreuzer, Stephanie Zimmermann Verified, Thomas Schneider-Axmann, Susanne Karch, Silvia Egert-Schwender, Christiane Blankenstein, Philipp Rothe, Elias Wagner, Peter Falkai, Maximilian Hansbauer, Tatiana Oviedo-Salcedo, Sophie K. Greiner, Irina Papazova, Lisa Löhrs, Stephan Heres, Thomas Görlitz, Anja Baumgartner, Zahra Aminifarsani, Claudia Leucht
| Nature Verified
Abstract The (NRG1)-ERBB4 signaling pathway has been identified to be pathophysiologically meaningful for cognitive impairments in schizophrenia. The in the 1960s approved mineralocorticoid antagonist spironolactone has been shown to be effective to modulate (NRG1)-ERBB4 signaling in preclinical and animal models. Thus, a proof-of-concept drug repurposing trial in patients with schizophrenia was justified. We conducted a multi-site proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial.
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Spiking gas prices spurs some Chicagoans to stop looking, amid rising food prices and inflation

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By Mariah Rush Verified, Stephanie Zimmermann Verified
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
Alejandro Vasquez was filling up his Toyota Prius Thursday morning at one of the priciest gas stations in Chicago. The Shell station at 130 W. North Ave. in Old Town was selling regular gas at $5.80 a gallon, one of the highest prices for a gallon of gas in the city, according to data from GasBuddy. But after months of climbing gas prices, Vasquez, who earns extra cash delivering groceries, and other drivers interviewed on Thursday said they are now resigned to the steep prices.
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