With a lack of validated rehabilitation interventions for people with long COVID, occupational therapy could help patients get their lives back to normal.
Working with communities to develop high-quality outdoor spaces that improve environmental, social and physical health.
How does cannabis cause allergic reactions, why do people with HIV experience cognitive decline, and how can internal scarring be reduced after rotator cuff repair.
Light pollution at night is getting worse. How can people maintain good sleep hygiene when brightness seeps in through the windows?
How to build more efficient, passive homes – those that take advantage of natural and recycled warming and cooling through design and engineering – for the masses.
Does discrimination slow recovery from brain trauma, can patients with long-term pain use cannabis to reduce opioid use, will blocking blood flow to cancer slow its growth?
Researchers will develop prototype modular panels and test for energy savings, resistance to weathering and market feasibility.
Exploring computer learning to predict Parkinson's disease progression, how the immune system becomes exhausted in HIV, and how to offer patients better diabetes care.
The latest on sustainability in fashion, studying what curbed the spread of COVID-19 best, and working with patients toward better assistive devices
From detective shows to decoding genetic data - how a Jefferson alum found her way to the world of computational research.
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer subtype that often fails to respond to treatments. Researchers at Jefferson Health's Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) have developed a novel therapeutic strategy that could revolutionize its treatment – and are challenging scientific beliefs in the process.
Understanding generational trauma and how therapists can be trained to help individuals cope.
Read the latest on the barriers to life after prison, a new treatment avenue for visceral pain, and how older people were cared for during the global pandemic.
Jefferson’s CEO Joseph G. Cacchione, MD is pleased to announce that John P. Mordach, has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Jefferson, which consists of Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Health and Health Partners Plans. Effective March 20, 2023, Mordach will join the organization from Duke University Health System (DUHS) where he served as Senior Vice President, CFO and Treasurer for the $4.5 billion academic health system since 2020.
With a projected 2.5 billion more people living in cities by 2050, the need to design sustainable cities has never been greater.
Researchers discover a potential therapeutic avenue against an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
New research into making asthma and COPD medication more potent could also improve how long they work in patients who need frequent doses.
Exploring the ways technology can improve collaborative treatment approaches for patients with opioid use disorder.
This year marks five years since the historic merger of two celebrated Philadelphia institutions — Thomas Jefferson University (Jefferson), a health sciences university that was founded in 1824 as the Jefferson Medical College, and Philadelphia University, a regional masters university and the nation’s first textile school founded in 1884.
The device improves upper limb function for patients with disability after stroke by stimulating the vagus nerve during rehab training.