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September 02, 2010
Doctors from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University have written and published a new, comprehensive guide on heart care titled: Jefferson Heart Institute Handbook of Cardiology. The medical textbook is geared toward medical students, residents and fellows, internists and cardiologists, offering a concise guide of cardiac disorders and how to treat them. The book will be available in September, 2010.
August 27, 2010
Scientists at Jefferson Medical College have received a four-year, $3 million National Institutes of Health grant funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study variations of platelet function, specifically, the genetics of platelet gene expression. The study aims to find data that can be translated into novel therapeutic strategies and develop better predictors of cardiovascular disease.