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Jefferson Launches Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities
by Brian Hickey
 

To become a world-renowned leader in climate change, social inequity, rapid urbanization and health disparity, three Jefferson colleges teamed up to launch the Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities.

 
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Caring For the Physical Health of Those With Mental Illness
by Edyta Zielinska
 

Researchers look into methods to reduce the early mortality in those with serious mental illnesses.

 
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New Differences in Male vs. Female Hearts
by Edyta Zielinska
 

Neurons that control every heartbeat are organized differently in male and female rats, opening new pathways for studying heart disease across sexes.

 
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Stephen Thomas
Stephen Thomas
What Causes Range of Motion to Deteriorate in Baseball Players?
by Karuna Meda
 

Understanding muscle adaptations in the shoulder to repetitive motion and stress.

 
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Swell close up
Designing a Prosthetic to Help Surfers Catch a Wave
by Mike Bederka
 

Two industrial design students create a low-cost, waterproof prosthetic that increases ankle mobility for adaptive surfers.

 
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Chris Harnish
Chris Harnish
How Can Interdisciplinary Collaboration Best Serve the Growing Healthcare Needs of Africa?
by Patrick Monaghan
 

Bridging the gap between the medical and design professions.

 
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Twitter Spotlight
 
Support Your Colleagues via Twitter
 

Explore studies from Julie Barta, and collaborators, who looked at why patients choose to forgo lung-cancer screening, and Yohei Kirino's group, which investigated how cells keep "jumping genes" from taking over the genome. Like and share their work with your networks!

 

 

 
Julie Barta, Yohei Kirino
Julie Barta, Yohei Kirino
 

Always wanted your own SAS (Statistical Analysis System)? Now it's available for you to download for free at the Jefferson library. Learn more here.

 
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