Recent Research

Little Baby Twins Feet in parents hands. Parenthood, family, twins, children and love concept.
06.29.20

New evidence upturns long-held medical practice, showing the efficacy of an intervention to prevent premature labor and miscarriage for mothers carrying twins.

Asian doctor and an assistant in the operating room for surgical venous vascular surgery clinic in hospital.
06.25.20

Black patients with esophageal cancer are less likely to receive life-saving surgery for early-stage disease than white patients.

06.23.20

What lessons can we learn from art therapists in times of high uncertainty and stress.

Cameraman shooting crowd
06.11.20

When deficit-focused reporting fails to tell the full stories of communities of color, newsroom ethics are eroded. 

DNA Strand Artwork. Digital modern painting
06.09.20

What it means for men and their families

Transfusion of human plasma.
06.08.20

Clinical researchers are getting trials to patients with COVID-19 faster than ever. Here are the latest Jefferson trials testing potential COVID-19 therapies.

Catheterization. Cardiac ventriculography is a medical imaging test used to determine a patient cardiac function in the right or left ventricle
06.04.20

Preliminary observations suggest a high incidence of COVID-19 in stroke patients, including younger patients who were otherwise healthy. 

05.28.20

A new study finds that restoring the protein SV2 in a genetic form of ALS can correct abnormalities in transmission and even prevent cells from dying, providing a new target for future therapies. 

05.26.20

The discovery further challenges the accepted scientific dogma that the lens is shut out from the immune protection.

3D reconsructed heart from a male rat
05.26.20

An interdisciplinary research team establishes a new technological pipeline to build a 3D map of the neurons in the heart, revealing foundational insight into their role in heart attacks and other cardiac conditions

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