April - June 2003 Media Coverage
Jefferson Heart Doctors are Among First in U.S. to Use Coated Stents
(Aired 4-25-2003, NBC10) Just one day after it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson cardiologists
were among the first in the United States to use coated stents to help their patients suffering from blockage in their coronary
arteries. Coated stents are a major improvement over traditional stents because they contain a drug to prevent scar tissue
from forming in the newly opened artery.
NBC10 Health Reporter Cherie Bank interviewed Cam DiGregorio of Northeast Philadelphia as he was being prepped to receive
the new device to help relieve chest pain.
Vandross remains in a coma
(Published 4-29-2003, The Philadelphia Inquirer) Thomas Jefferson University Hospital physicians Bryan O'Neill, MD and Robert T. Sataloff, MD comment on this case.
She's Tops in Patient Support
(Published 5-1-2003, Philadelphia Daily News) Philadelphia Daily News Profiles Laura Nash, Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hospital Social Worker
Newborn abandoned by Mother
Jefferson Psychiatrist Dr. Catherine Piontek discusses postpartum depression issues related to case of mother convicted of
abandoning her newborn in a trash can, immediately after childbirth.
Make Pain Go Away, Naturally
(Published 5-7-2003, NBC10) Paula Rubicki's life was a mass of pain, operations and pharmaceuticals following an automobile accident eight years ago.
Then she was referred to the Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and, as she told NBC10
Health Reporter, Cherie Bank, "the pain is going away."
Jefferson Marks 50th Anniversary of Gibbon Heart-Lung Machine
News media reports on Thomas Jefferson University's symposium to honor invention of heart-lung machine by Jefferson surgeon
John H. Gibbon and the first surgery, using his invention, performed at Jefferson Hospital.
Formal dedication and opening of the Farber Institute for Neurosciences of Thomas Jefferson University
(5-19-2003) CBS3 (Ch.3), NBC10 (Ch.10), 6ABC(Ch.6), WB17 (Ch.17), KYW newsradio(1060AM) WHYY-FM (90.9) news come out for dedication of Farber Institute and speak with its director, Sam Gandy,
M.D., Ph.D, associate director Lorraine Iacovitti, Ph.D., and special guests Patti Davis and actor David Hyde Pierce.
Benefits of Using Lithium in Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Dr. Sam Gandy, director of the Farber Institute for Neurosciences of Thomas Jefferson University, discusses with the Associated
Press, the New York Times and other news media the possible benefits of using lithium in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Hormone Use Found to Raise Dementia Risk(Published 5-28-2003) Dr. Sam Gandy, director of the Farber Institute for Neurosciences of Thomas Jefferson University, discusses
with the New York Times in a Page 1 article, and with other news media new study just released that indicates that women over
65 who take hormone replacement therapy are at increased risk of developing dementia.
Center for Integrative Medicine featured in O, the Oprah Magazine
(Published 6-2003) The July issue of O, the Oprah Magazine, features an interview with Ian Cyrus, MS, RAc, Dipl. AC, of the
Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as part of "Energy Makeovers" for several women.
Cyrus, who is staff practitioner of acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Center for Integrative Medicine says: "Most of
us are so used to being on edge and stressed, we don't know what it's like to achieve a baseline of deep relaxation. After
a few treatments, patient's systems learn to develop a different frame of reference. They know the difference between what
they've grown accustomed to and what they should feel like."
O, the Oprah Magazine, is read by more than two million people each month.
