Jeffersonians in the News

Recent Print Coverage

• Sleep specialist Karl Doghramji, MD, explained the influence food and drink can have on sleep patterns in First For Women magazine (circulation 1,500,000) on October 28.
  
  
• Efforts by Eric Kmiec, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, to find a synthetic molecule to correct the gene mutation that causes sickle cell anemia appeared in the November issue of Scientific American (circulation 634,974).
  
  
• Robert L. Comis, MD, Clinical Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center, commented on a study showing cancer death rates declining for the first time this century in the Philadelphia Inquirer (circulation 504,903) on November 14.

Recent Television and Radio Coverage

• Yedy Israel, PhD, professor of pathology, anatomy and cell biology discussed his new screening/counseling method for problem drinkers on local, national, and international outlets including: WTXF-TV (Ch. 29), WPVI-TV (Ch. 6), Reuters, NTLI-TV (Cable outlet in New York), WRC-TV (NBC in Washington), KTVK-TV (Ch. 3 in Indiana), WHP-TV (Ch. 21 in Harrisburg), WNYW-TV (Fox in New York), WFXT-TV (Fox in Boston), KDFW-TV (Fox in Dallas), WKYC-TV (NBC in Cleveland), KING-TV (NBC in Seattle), WSVN-TV (Fox in Miami), KCRA-TV (NBC in Sacramento), KUSA-TV (NBC in Denver), KGW-TV (NBC in Portland), WFLX-TV (Fox in West Palm Beach), WAND-TV (ABC in Springfield), KNWS-TV (Independent news outlet in Houston), KSAT-TV (ABC in San Antonio), CNN, MSNBC, Today, Conus, Global News, Cox Broadcast, Medill News Service, Standard News Service, Radio Free Europe, AP Radio, Burns News Bureau and Tokyo Broadcasting System.
  
  
• In-vitro Fertilization Director Gregory Fossum, MD, performed and explained a zygote intrafallopian tube transfer (ZIFT) on WPVI-TV (Ch. 6), WTXF-TV (Ch. 29) and Inquirer News Tonight (Ch. 17) on November 22.
  
  
• George Davis, DO, Obstetrician/Gynecologist, discussed how inserting a shunt into the chest of a baby girl in-utero allowed fluid to be drained and her lungs to develop on WCAU-TV (NBC 10) on November 14 and WNBC-TV (NBC in New York) on November 25.
  
  
• Sergio Jimenez, MD, Director of the Division of Rheumatology, discussed the autoimmune disease scleroderma on WPVI-TV (Ch. 6) on November 15 and 17.