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Featured June 29, 2011
The results of a study involving 53,000 current and former smokers who were screened with low-dose CT scans showed that lung cancer deaths can be cut by 20 percent compared to using standard X-rays.
Featured June 29, 2011
Jefferson University Hospitals recently took part in an effort to lower the incidence of wrong-side, or wrong-site, procedures.
Featured June 28, 2011
A rare skin disease known as epidermolysis bullosa (EB) can leave a baby with missing or fragile skin and blisters on the skin and inside the mouth. Dr. Uitto is one of the first doctors to describe Bart's syndrome, a variant of EB.
Featured June 27, 2011
The article discusses an occupational therapist in Bucks County who is using techniques learned at the Mindfulness Institute to teach students in his summer program tools to control their anxiety and frustration.
Featured June 25, 2011
With additional comment given on other injured members of the Phillies pitching staff.
Featured June 23, 2011
Researchers at Jefferson found during a study that receiving radiation therapy immediately after a radical prostatectomy is a cost-effective treatment for prostate cancer patients when compared with waiting and acting on elevated PSA levels.
Featured June 23, 2011
Kathleen Begley's life turned upside down when her healthy husband told her that he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at age 62. Seven months later, Kathleen said goodbye to the love of her life. Kathleen writes about her experience in an op-ed piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Featured June 22, 2011
The story is about the running community's ability to raise millions of dollars each year to fight cancer.
Featured June 21, 2011
D. Craig Hooper, PhD, and Bernhard Dietzschold, DVM, of Thomas Jefferson University have been conducting research on the brains of mice to see how the rabies virus attacks immune cells.
Featured June 20, 2011
The Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and other area hospitals such Fox Chase Cancer Center and University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center are conducting research genetic mutations so that doctors can provide more precise treatments.
Featured June 18, 2011
He recommends that all men at the age of 50 get screened for prostate cancer, unless you have a family history, in which you should be screened at 40 or 45.
Featured June 15, 2011
For years it's been difficult for the average person to comprehend what the various sunscreen labels mean. The FDA hopes to fix that with its new requirements to provide simpler but adequate information on how to avoid painful sunburns and increasing your risk of skin cancer while out in the sun.
Featured June 08, 2011
Exercising in the heat puts extra stress on the heart and lungs as your body tries to regulate its temperature, so hydrating and sweating are critical for exercising safely in the heat.
Featured June 07, 2011
Dr. Gomella tells Everyday Health that the PSA (prostate-specific antigen), which measures the level of PSA in the blood, is a great test but it's not perfect to detect prostate cancer.
Featured June 06, 2011
Many women struggle with the demands of juggling work and raising a family. For female physicians, decisions about having children can be extremely difficult, depending on what they specialize in, how many patients they have and whether they will lose their career footing by becoming a mother.
Featured June 06, 2011
Many soldiers who return from Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. They will use medication or talk therapy to relieve their symptoms, but sometimes that just doesn't help. One soldier turned to transcendental meditation.
Featured June 06, 2011
Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson discovered what makes a tumor grow — and how to make it stop.
Featured June 03, 2011
Children at the event video-Skyped with Nobel Prize winner Joseph Edward Murray, 92, the first person to successfully perform a kidney transplant, in 1954.
Featured June 03, 2011
Called a "miracle baby" by physicians, nurses and her family, Rebecca Kamens returned to Jefferson as a healthy 16 year-old to volunteer on the floor as part of a Special Studies program at the Agnes Irwin School.
Featured June 01, 2011
Jefferson is the first in Pennsylvania to offer this device, and Michael Weinstein, MD, of Jefferson's Department of Surgery, is among the first surgeons in the United States to implant the NeuRx DPS.