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Featured March 29, 2012
Dr. Scott Goldstein, director of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, talks about one such patient who was just 25 years old when she was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Featured March 28, 2012
Drs. Dodson, Vaccaro and Mehallo from the Rothman Institute at Jefferson are interviewed about recent sports-related injuries.
Featured March 27, 2012
Jefferson pediatrician Dr. Gary Emmett writes about the importance of letting kids play.
Featured March 26, 2012
Dr. David Cognetti, otolaryngologist and co-director of the Jefferson Center for Head and Neck Surgery, explains minimally invasive procedure offered at Jefferson to remove salivary stones.
Featured March 22, 2012
Jefferson dermatologist Sergio Jimenez discusses the autoimmune disease, scleroderma, in Delaware's News Journal.
Featured March 21, 2012
Dr. Eugene Viscusi, director of Acute Pain Management at Jefferson, talks about the role opioids may play in cancer growth.
Featured March 20, 2012
Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson, led by Dr. Alexander Vaccaro, have shown that patients who receive surgery less than 24 hours after a traumatic cervical spine injury suffer less neural tissue destruction and improved clinical outcomes.
Featured March 19, 2012
Dr. Richard Rothman, orthopedic surgeon and founder of the Rothman Institute at Jefferson, talks about the benefits of knee replacement surgery.
Featured March 19, 2012
Dr. Jack Jallo, neurosurgeon at Jefferson, explains that researchers paid little attention to concussions until recently.
Featured March 19, 2012
Jefferson dermatologist Dr. Laurel Schwartz answers a question about hair loss in women.
Featured March 19, 2012
Jefferson pediatrician Esther Chung says that the first few weeks of breastfeeding are generally the most challenging.
Featured March 16, 2012
Jefferson plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Copit comments on the injections in an interview.
Featured March 16, 2012
Kristen Radcliff, MD, of the Rothman Institute at Jefferson discusses epidural injections for patients being treated for lumbar stenosis.
Featured March 16, 2012
Leaders in the field of geriatric oncology gathered at Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center Symposium to address the need for specialized care for elderly cancer patients.
Featured March 15, 2012
Dr. Javad Parvizi, orthopedic surgeon at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson, explains that infections are a risk during surgery itself but may also occur a decade after a knee or hip replacement.
Featured March 13, 2012
Dr. David Fischman, co-director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Jefferson, comments on new research showing that medications are just as good as stents in the treatment of coronary artery disease.
Featured March 13, 2012
Dr. Richard Rothman, orthopedic surgeon and founder of the Rothman Institute at Jefferson, talks about how he stays fit while keeping busy.
Featured March 13, 2012
Dr. Kathleen Squires, director of Jefferson's Division of Infectious Diseases, advises people of the best way to prevent the spread of the Norovirus.
Featured March 13, 2012
According to a new study led by Dr. Scott Waldman, chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Jefferson, a leaky gut may be the root of the formation of certain cancers in the rest of the body.
Featured March 13, 2012
Jefferson dietician Cheryl Marco, RD, CDE, talks about the new science behind diets and exercise.
Featured March 13, 2012
A $240,000 grant from Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health has resulted in a mental health collaborative, organized by Jefferson and Liberty Lutheran Family Service.
Featured March 12, 2012
Jefferson cardiologist Dr. Danielle Duffy talks about new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the difference in heart attack symptoms and outcomes in men versus women.
Featured March 12, 2012
Jefferson pediatrician Dr. Gary Emmett discusses the latest Infant Tylenol recall due to faulty flow restrictors on some bottle tops.
Featured March 12, 2012
Dr. Edith Mitchell, director of the new center, hopes to raise awareness through public and professional education about what resources are available to groups in their fight against cancer.
Featured March 09, 2012
Dr. Cataldo Doria, director of the Division of Transplantation at Jefferson, along with kidney transplant patients featured in FOX 29 story about the largest-ever kidney transplant chain in the United States.