News Releases
July 23, 2008
Mathew Thakur, Ph.D., professor of radiology and radiation oncology/nuclear medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, has been awarded the 2008 Cassen Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the science and practice of Nuclear Medicine.
July 22, 2008
Theodore A. Christopher, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, has been elected President of the Philadelphia County Medical Society.
July 21, 2008
Vijay M. Rao, M.D., F.A.C.R., professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, has been named to the first endowed chair in the department’s history. This endowment honors the former chair of the department, David C. Levin, M.D., who led the department for 16 years. New York businessman, Arthur S. Penn, bestowed a generous gift to Jefferson to create the chair honoring Dr. Levin.
July 18, 2008
Chest pain is the second most common complaint when patients go to the emergency room, accounting for six million visits annually. Determining the cause of patients’ symptoms whether it be a heart attack or some other life-threatening entity like a blood clot in the lungs is challenging since the symptoms often overlap.
July 18, 2008
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals has again been ranked as the top hospital in Philadelphia for orthopedics and rehabilitation medicine by U.S. News & World Report in their 2008 Best Hospitals survey. This ranking translates into the 15th best hospital in the nation for orthopedic surgery and the 12th best in the U.S. for rehabilitation medicine.
July 15, 2008
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the first hospital in Philadelphia to offer the next generation of drug eluting stents for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD). Recently approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration, the XIENCE V Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System, has proven to be more effective in reducing adverse cardiac events in recent clinical trials of patients with previous cases of CAD.
July 15, 2008
The Neurosurgery team of the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience has passed a major milestone in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms.
July 08, 2008
Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have made a key discovery about the mechanism of breast cancer metastasis, the process by which cancer spreads.