Featured in the Media
Featured August 31, 2011
Dr. Stephen Silberstein, director of the Headache Center at Jefferson is interviewed by Self magazine about common types of headache and possible treatment options.
Featured August 29, 2011
Medical oncologist, Dr. Edith Mitchell, talks to WHYY Radio about African Americans in medicine and the diversity efforts at the Kimmel Cancer Center.
Featured August 29, 2011
Dr. Matthias Schnell, director of the Jefferson Vaccine Center, successfully tests a single vaccine in mice for both rabies and Ebola.
Featured August 26, 2011
One day each week, a volunteer dog visits patients in the Emergency Department at Jefferson to help them cope with the stress and nervousness associated with being in the emergency room.
Featured August 24, 2011
Andrew Newberg, MD, director of research at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, talks to WBUR about how spirituality affects the brain.
Featured August 24, 2011
Dr. Mijail Serruya is interviewed by CBS3 about the signs and symptoms of dementia and how physicians diagnose the disease.
Featured August 22, 2011
New research from the Jefferson Heart Institute, led by Dr. Arnold Greenspon, shows an increase in infection rates among patients with cardiac electrophysiological devices (CIEDs), including permanent pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).
Featured August 22, 2011
Jefferson physical therapists were interviewed about providing pro bono care to the homeless men served at Jefferson's Hands of Hope Clinic.
Featured August 19, 2011
Jefferson cardiologists, Drs. Shipon and Ho participated in a press conference to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes.
Featured August 18, 2011
New research conducted by Jefferson obstetricians Drs. Jason Baxter and Vincenzo Berghella reveals that a woman's cervical length can be a predictor of preterm birth.
Featured August 17, 2011
Jefferson anesthesiologist Dr. Eugene Viscusi talks to ABC News about unintended intraoperative awareness and the measures being taken to monitor and manage patient awareness in the operating room.
Featured August 17, 2011
Vincent Armenti, MD, talks to the Associated Press about the overall health impact of pregnancy on liver transplant patients.
Featured August 16, 2011
The Kimmel Cancer Center's Senior Adult Oncology Center takes a unique approach to senior cancer care, offering patients a customized course of treatment.
Featured August 14, 2011
D. Craig Hooper, MD, director of the Center for Neurovirology at Jefferson, was interviewed by KYW Newsradio about the NIH grant his team received to study a new rabies vaccine.
Featured August 13, 2011
A new study by Dr. Hwyda Arafat suggesting a potential target Angiotensin II type 2 receptor for chemopreventive agents to fight pancreatic cancer is highlighted in MedPage Today.
Featured August 11, 2011
Gary Emmett, MD, director of inpatient pediatrics at Jefferson, gives student athletes some back-to-school advice about how to prevent sports injuries.
Featured August 10, 2011
Jefferson neurosurgeon Pascal Jabbour, MD, discusses implanting a pipeline brain stent into a patient's brain to help alleviate two aneurysms.
Featured August 10, 2011
The primary care physician talks about the effectiveness of behavioral therapy for male sexual dysfunction.
Featured August 09, 2011
Jefferson patient and member of the clinical trial for the occipital nerve stimulator, led by Dr. Stephen Silberstein, is featured on the Today Show.
Featured August 05, 2011
In an effort to help new moms learn their child's feeding cues, Jefferson now suggests that moms room-in with their baby.
Featured August 04, 2011
Dr. Rosenwasser discussed the signs, symptoms and treatment options for AVMs.
Featured August 04, 2011
George Brainard, PhD, director of Jefferson's Light Research Program, talked about the health concerns consumers have about the transition from old-fashioned light bulbs to more energy-efficient ones.
Featured August 03, 2011
Mijail Serruya, MD, PhD, was surprised to learn of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' appearance on the House floor.
Featured August 03, 2011
In this segment, "Beyond Belief: The Atheist and Her Brain," Dr. Newberg explained how our beliefs play a role in what we experience at near death.
Featured August 03, 2011
In an NBC interview, Dr. David Cognetti discusses the rise of HPV-related head and neck cancer, particularly in men.
Featured August 03, 2011
A multidisciplinary research group, led by Isidore Rigoutsos, director of the Computational Medicine Center at Jefferson, was awarded a $1 million medical research grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study the human genome and the role it may play in the onset and progression of various diseases.
Featured August 01, 2011
In a Q&A section of the August issue of Philadelphia magazine, Dr. Steven Greenbaum, answers “How can I reverse summer skin damage?”