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Office of news communicationsTUSM in the NewsFollowing are highlights from recent stories about Temple University School of Medicine in the media. Links were active when these stories were compiled but can change over time. Some media outlets require paid subscriptions.
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April 27, 2013, Philadelphia Inquirer. Urgent-care centers are not new to the Philadelphia region, but there has been a burst of activity since last fall. In Southeastern Pennsylvania, Temple has recently opened two urgent-care centers, in Northeast Philadelphia and Jenkintown, and plans a third this summer in Fort Washington. "It's certainly our strategy to place more of these in strategic areas," said Larry Kaiser, CEO of Temple University Health System.
April 23, 2013, KYW News Radio, 6ABC, Fox29, CBS3. Temple’s Robotic Career Day held last week at Temple’s School of Medicine gave juniors and seniors from Archbishop Ryan High School a chance to interact with Temple robotic surgeons, learn more about robotic surgery, and get hands-on experience with a surgical robot. More than 40 students took turns doing simulation games to discover the robot’s capabilities and test how quickly they could learn how to operate its controls.
April 23, 2013, Philadelphia Inquirer. By repurposing an existing drug, researchers say that they can prevent seizures in an extremely rare form of epilepsy and possibly create future lines of attack against more common types of the disorder. The researchers previously had determined that the disease’s genetic mutation blocked the function of a protein that regulates cell growth and movement. "It is like a thermostat," said senior author Peter Crino, a professor of neurology at Temple.
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20130429_Researchers_report_preventing_seizures_
April 18, 2013, Reuters. Losing weight through exercise and healthier eating may have long-term benefits for people with mild sleep apnea, a new study suggests. "If you've lost some weight, four years later, even if you've regained some, there's still some significant benefit in terms of your apnea," said Gary Foster, Director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University.
April 13, 2013, Philadelphia Inquirer. In advanced emphysema, the lungs become progressively enlarged. Researchers have long tried to find ways to reduce lung volume and improve airflow without risky surgery. Now, three promising techniques are in or near clinical testing at Temple University and other medical centers. "They all have pluses and minuses," said Temple pulmonologist Gerard J. Criner, a leading emphysema researcher. "I foresee a day where a patient would have several of these techniques, based on their anatomy."
http://articles.philly.com/2013-04-14/news/38513512_1_frank-sciurba-lung-stents
April 9, 2013, Scientific American. New evidence is confirming that the environment kids live in has a greater impact than factors such as genetics or insufficient physical activity in efforts to control child obesity. In a Temple study, dishware size made a big difference. Doubling the size of the dishware, the Temple researchers found, increased the amount of food kids served themselves by an average of 90 calories. “This notion that children are immune to the environment is somewhat misguided,” says Jennifer Orlet Fisher of Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education. “To promote self-regulation, you have to constrain the environment in a way that makes the healthy choice the easy choice.”
April 9, 2013, Salon, HealthDay wire, KYW News Radio. Shrinking the size of kids' plates and bowls might help them eat less and keep off extra weight, new research suggests. Jennifer Fisher, a researcher at Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education and one of the study authors, said it was preliminary but could still inform parent choices. "For now, certainly it seems like something parents can easily incorporate into their daily lives without a lot of work and effort," she said.
April 8, 2013, Reuters, TIME, USA Today, more. Shrinking the size of kids' plates and bowls might help them eat less and keep off extra weight, new research suggests. Jennifer Fisher, a researcher at Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and one of the study authors, said it was preliminary but could still inform parent choices. "For now, certainly it seems like something parents can easily incorporate into their daily lives without a lot of work and effort," she said.
April 4, 2013, Bloomberg. Sequestration has cast a shadow of uncertainty over public funding for medical research. Steven Houser, Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Temple’s School of Medicine, said he fears the cuts will hamper research for years to come, shrinking the number of trainees hired or accepted into graduate programs, and causing still other students to question whether research is a viable career option. “The main thing that’s going to happen is people are going to lose jobs,” Houser said.
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Contact Information:Rebecca Harmon Assistant Vice President Department of Communications Temple University Health System 3509 N. Broad St., 9th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19140 T: 215-707-8229 Email: rebecca.harmon@tuhs.
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