January 29, 2007
Steven B. McMahon, Ph.D., has been named associate professor in the Department of Cancer Biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson.
January 23, 2007
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has opened a new center that will provide patients access to the most advanced technologies available in the treatment of aortic aneurysms, dissections and other maladies anywhere in the body.
January 17, 2007
Building on the success of its Center for Translational Medicine, the Department of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University has created the Center for Novel Therapies for Kidney Disease, a program to combine basic research, clinical research and care for patients suffering from diabetic kidney disease.
January 17, 2007
Gastroenterology researcher Satish Rattan, DVM, professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has been awarded $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular mechanisms involved in maintaining smooth muscle tone of the internal anal sphincter (IAS), which is crucial for normal bowel functioning.
January 15, 2007
The FDA recently approved Radiesse for the long-lasting correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds. The product has been used by the Head and Neck Surgeons at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital since 2002 to help patients with vocal fold paralysis. By augmenting the vocal fold, speech and voice deficits improve.
January 15, 2007
The Tobacco Intervention Program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is offering a free group quit-smoking program in North Philadelphia for adults. The program will be held on Wednesdays, noon to 1 p.m., from February 7 to March 14. It will be held at the Nicetown-Tioga Library at 3720 N. Broad Street.
January 12, 2007
Preconceptional Counseling--a new program for women who are considering becoming pregnant--is being offered by the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University.
January 08, 2007
Unexplained chest pain after a heart attack might be more dangerous than many physicians originally think.
January 08, 2007
Mindfulness Meditation, the popular course that helps participants learn to relieve pain, reduce stress and enhance wellness, is once again being offered at two locations by the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
January 05, 2007
A new study shows that pancreatic cancer patients 65 or older who live at least five years after surgery have nearly as good a chance as anyone else to live another five years.
January 05, 2007
Thomas Eakins’ 1875 masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, goes on public view at 4 p.m. today at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and in early March will hang at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It is on loan to the Museum from Thomas Jefferson University until it is sold later this month by the University to the Museum and the Academy, which have joined in an extraordinary ongoing fundraising effort.
January 04, 2007
Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have uncovered a novel pathway by which the anti-cancer gene p53 springs into action, protecting a damaged cell from becoming cancer. The gene can either halt the cell’s growth or send it spiraling toward certain death. How this choice is made, the researchers say, could have implications for future strategies in chemotherapy drug development.
January 03, 2007
First there was the swallowed camera, a device to take doctors on an incredible journey through a patient’s small intestine. Now, at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, another innovation lets them make a stop along the way.
January 02, 2007
Thomas J. Lewis, president and chief executive officer of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has named Geno Merli, MD, FACP, as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer.