Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

April 2005

Jefferson Live Webcast Will Bring Visitors into Virtual World of Computer Assisted Partial Knee Replacement
(Published 4-5-2005) Virtual reality is aiding orthopaedic surgeons at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in replacing arthritis-stricken single compartments of a knee without the patient having to endure a long surgery and recovery involved with a total knee replacement.

Local Mural Arts Program Director Jane Golden Presented with Community Service Award by Thomas Jefferson University Students
(Published 4-5-2005) Jane Golden, director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program will be presented with the Second Annual Excellence in Community Service Award by Jefferson’s Safety Awareness and Public Health Education (SAPHE), a Thomas Jefferson University student organization.

Jefferson’s Acute Stroke Center Will Try to Block “Brain Attacks” With Free Stroke Risk Assessments
(Published 4-6-2005) The Acute Stroke Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital will provide free screenings to identify people at risk for stroke on Wednesday, April 27, in the lobby of Jefferson’s Gibbon Building S. 10th Street between Chestnut and Sansom streets, Philadelphia.

Today’s Woman: Her Health, Her Life, Her Spirit - A Celebration
(Published 4-6-2005) An exciting one-day event designed especially to meet the needs of women will be held Saturday, April 23, at Thomas Jefferson University.

“Cancer and Fertility” Workshop for Young Adult Cancer Survivors at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson
(Published 4-11-2005) The Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson will hold a workshop for young adults with cancer on Thursday, May 5, as part of a new support program, Navigating the New Normal.

Rats with Migraines Provide Jefferson Scientists Insights to Improved Drug Strategy
(Published 4-12-2005) When Michael Oshinsky, Ph.D., gives his rats a headache, he has good reason. The animals are helping Dr. Oshinsky, assistant professor of neurology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, study how migraine treatments work.

Jefferson Researchers Find Timing of Post-Epilepsy Surgery Seizures Predicts Subsequent Seizures, Outcome
(Published 4-13-2005) A multicenter study led by researchers at Jefferson Medical College has found that patients who had an initial seizure within the first four months of surgery were less likely to do as well in the long term as those individuals who did not.

Jefferson Neurologists Find Botulinum Toxin Type A Treatment Effective for Chronic Daily Headache Sufferers with Migraine
(Published 4-14-2005) Neurologists at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, have had success in preventing and treating Chronic Daily Headache, or CDH, in migraine sufferers with injections of botulinum toxin type A, popularly known as “Botox.”

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Offers Free Skin Cancer Screening
(Published 4-18-2005) Summer is coming and before that happens, the skin experts at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital recommend that you have your skin checked for moles or irritations.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Author, to Present Benefit Lecture and Special Workshop
(Published 4-18-2005) For two days in May, the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital will present pioneer Mindfulness Meditation teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. in a benefit lecture and full-day workshop.

Jefferson Launches Urban Campus Transformation with a Lead Gift from Dorrance H. Hamilton
(Published 4-21-2005) Jefferson’s new educational facility, with its associated campus green, will be the “new heart of the campus,” setting the standard for Jefferson’s educational vision and for its interaction with the surrounding community, says Thomas Jefferson University President

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul H. O’Neill Presents Jefferson’s 14th Annual Dr. Raymond C. Grandon Lecture on “Aspiring to Be Perfect.”
(Published 4-22-2005) Paul H. O’Neill, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, will give the 14th annual Dr. Raymond C. Grandon Lecture at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.

Jefferson Doctor Warns: Recognize and Treat Heart Failure---it is All Around Us
(Published 4-29-2005) All of sudden, it seems, we are hearing about heart failure. People we know, or grandparents and parents of friends, who attribute their tiredness, shortness of breath or even swelling around their ankles to signs of getting older, are being told--when they finally mention these symptoms to a physician--that they may be suffering from heart failure.