| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.07.2026 | TramutoPorter Foundation to Celebrate 25th Anniversary with Gala at Camp Sunshine on July 30, 2026 | Co‑Founder Donato J. Tramuto Announces Multi‑Million‑Dollar Endowment Commitment to Advance Global Compassionate Leadership, Education, Health Equity and Human Rights
OGUNQUIT, ME / ACCESS Newswire / July 14, 2026 / The TramutoPorter Founda... |
| 25.05.2026 | Senolytic Drug Combination Delays Early Intervertebral Disc Degeneration in Mice | Gene expression analysis of nucleus pulposus tissues reveals that dasatinib–quercetin treatment alters key pathways, including cell cycle, RNA, and protein regulation, associated with reduced senescence and disc degeneration in SM/J mice.
T... |
| 04.04.2026 | 4 things ophthalmologists wish you knew about your eyes | To make sure I’m doing everything I can to take care of my eyes, I decided to talk to ophthalmologists. Here is what they want you to know about your eyes.YOUR EYES CAN GET SUNBURNED
When you expose your eyes to prolonged or intense UV ligh... |
| 09.01.2026 | Canopy Raises $22M in Series B Funding | Canopy, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a connected safety platform for U.S. health systems, raised $22m in Series B funding.
The round was co-led by 111° West Capital and ACME Capital, with participation from all existing investors.
... |
| 15.12.2025 | The Chuck Noll Foundation Honors Allegheny Health Network neurosurgeon Donald Whiting with Prestigious 'Legends Award' | The Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research has presented its "Legends Award" to Dr. Donald Whiting, Chair of the Neuroscience Institute at Allegheny Health Network (AHN). Dr. Whiting is recognized for his expertise in usi... |
| 29.09.2025 | A New Era at Rothman Orthopaedics: Christian Ellison Named CEO to Lead Nation's Largest Musculoskeletal Practice | Ellison will oversee strategic growth, operational performance, and community impact for the largest private musculoskeletal practice in the U.S.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Rothman Orthopaedics, a global leader in mu... |
| 18.02.2025 | AstraZeneca's Board Transformation: A New Era in Cancer Care | AstraZeneca is undergoing a significant transformation. The biopharmaceutical giant is set to welcome Karen Knudsen as a Non-Executive Director. This move is more than just a boardroom shuffle; it’s a strategic play in the complex game of c... |
| 18.02.2025 | Directorate Change | Directorate Change
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Non-Executive Board Changes
AstraZeneca PLC announced today that Karen Knudsen will be proposed for election as a Non-Executive Director at the Company's An... |
| 14.11.2024 | Little Giraffe Foundation Names 2024 NICU Support Grant Recipients | Little Giraffe Foundation
The nonprofit donates a total of $20,189 in grant money to 21 medical institutions and non-profit organizations to support NICU patients and their families
CHICAGO, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Little Giraff... |
| 06.08.2024 | Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health study published in the journal Cancer finds outpatient supportive oncology programs improve care and reduce costs | PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Results from a study published in the journal Cancer by Independence Blue Cross (IBX) and Jefferson Health show positive outcomes to having supportive oncology programs. The study found that these ... |
| 01.08.2024 | Jefferson, Lehigh Valley Health Network Complete Combination | Now a top 15 not-for-profit health system in the U.S., combined organization will increase access to care, clinical research and health plan offerings in Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey
PHILADELPHIA and LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Aug.... |
| 15.07.2024 | HanAll Biopharma Appoints Christopher W Slavinsky as Chief Business Development and Legal Officer | ROCKVILLE, Md. and SEOUL, South Korea, July 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HanAll Biopharma (KRX: 009420.KS) announced today the appointment of Christopher W. Slavinsky as Chief Business Development and Legal Officer.
HanAll Biopharma Appoints Ch... |
| 15.05.2024 | Jefferson, Lehigh Valley Health Network sign a definitive agreement to combine | This agreement is a significant milestone in the organizations coming together as a top-tier, nationally leading integrated academic health care system, research university and expanded not-for-profit health plan.
PHILADELPHIA and LEHIGH VA... |
| 14.05.2024 | Slone Partners Places Dr. Eugene P. Kennedy as Chief Medical Officer at Carisma Therapeutics | Slone Partners Places Dr. Eugene P. Kennedy as Chief Medical Officer at Carisma Therapeutics
Industry veteran brings expertise in oncology and immuno-oncology and a strong track record of advancing programs through clinical development
SOUT... |
| 07.05.2024 | Susan C. Aldridge, Ph.D., Appointed President of Thomas Jefferson University | Dr. Aldridge is an accomplished higher education leader who has been serving as the University's interim president since July 2023
PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan C. Aldridge, Ph.D., an accomplished and widely recognized hig... |
| 30.04.2024 | NIIMBL announces 63 students for the 2024 NIIMBL eXperience | NEWARK, Del., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) is pleased to announce 63 students from 41 academic institutions have been selected to take part in the 2024 NII... |
| 16.04.2024 | Finding Wawa super fans beyond Philadelphia | I have a deep, dark family secret: My pops is a Wawa "stan."
Threat level: He's so obsessed with the convenience store that, a couple of months ago, he texted my sister after she landed in Philly for the first time to ask whether ... |
| 01.08.2022 | Jefferson Lands New CEO From One Of The Country’s Largest Health Systems | Dr. Joseph Cacchione will be the next CEO of Jefferson, effective Sept. 6.
Cacchione is executive vice president for clinical and network services at Ascension Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country. St. Lou... |
| 24.05.2022 | Telehealth’s Newest Frontier: Emergency Medicine | Telehealth has been a prominent buzzword for the last few years. With the emergence of Covid-19 and a newfound respect for remote healthcare services, telehealth/telemedicine have been a large focus of healthcare organizations and physician... |
| 04.04.2022 | Thriving Alumni Businesses Succeeded After Finding Support at Temple | The companies have another thing in common: They were started in North Philadelphia by Temple students.
Both Zimri T. Hinshaw, CLA ’20, of Bucha Bio and Jared Cannon, FOX ’16, of Simply Good Jars got their business ideas off the ground with... |
| 08.12.2021 | Jefferson Partners with NeuroFlow to Support Holistic Health of Employees and Students | PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB) December 08, 2021
NeuroFlow, the market leader in technology and services for behavioral health integration, is now available to 42,000 employees of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health.
The initiative will ... |
| 27.07.2021 | careNext : Launches Doc360°, Consumers' Source of Truth for Grading Providers | careNext, a healthcare disruptor guiding consumers of healthcare (careSumers™) to the most appropriate healthcare provider whenever they need it, wherever they need it, is proud to introduce Doc360°™, a healthcare provider grading system wi... |
| 20.05.2021 | A Thomas Jefferson University Employee Was Fired Over Medical Marijuana Use. So She Fired Back. | May 20, 2021 3 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
A former employee of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia has sued the school for wrongful termination. She claims to have been using medical mari... |
| 03.12.2020 | How Jefferson Health is caring for chronic disease patients amid a pandemic | Jefferson has since purchased iPads (with data service for six months), as well as Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as blood pressure cuffs and scales, which can transmit data directly to platforms used by health system providers. The device... |
| 28.01.2019 | Dr. David Nash: “No outcome, no income” should be basis for pop health’s transformation | Dr. David Nash, a board-certified internist, is the founding dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health, and as such he advocates for better clinical outcomes and social determinants of health. In a phone interview, Nash weighed in ... |
| 06.07.2017 | What does the PhilaU-Jefferson merger mean for startups? | Looks like there’s a new “new Jefferson” in town.
After officially gobbling up East Falls’ Philadelphia University last week, the medical college has a spiffy new logo and everything:
In case you missed it, we launched the #NewJefferson wit... |
| 29.03.2017 | For truly affordable health care, we need to pay for outcomes, not services | Health insurers and hospitals have talked a lot about their successful forays into value-based care. But the broader shift from volume to value needs to accelerate if we are to finally tame the increases in health care costs that threaten l... |
| 27.12.2016 | Thomas Jefferson University Receives $3 Million Marijuana Research Grant | December 27, 2016 3 min read
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With a $3 million grant from Australian philanthropists Barry and Joy Lambert, Thomas Jefferson University has established a new medical center for ... |
| 27.12.2016 | Thomas Jefferson University Receives $3 Million Marijuana Research Grant | - |
| 26.09.2016 | 10 DesignPhiladelphia events for the tech design nerd in you | At this year’s DesignPhiladelphia, you can experience a self-assembling structure at Jefferson University’s public plaza, watch Klip Collective take on interior design and preview Penn’s new incubator space on Gray’s Ferry.
That’s just a ta... |
| 02.06.2016 | (Q&A) Dreamit Ventures has added a bunch of healthcare partners to its accelerator | Can you give me a better sense of how these “customer immersions” work on the healthcare side?
There are hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, integrated systems, and others in the healthcare space that are interested in see... |
| 23.05.2016 | CloudMine Named a Cool Vendor in Mobile App Development by Gartner |
CloudMine launched the Connected Health Cloud in March 2016 at the HIMSS Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Leading healthcare organizations, such as Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, are deploying the Connected Health Cloud to connect to a... |
| 01.04.2016 | Philly universities about to get a DOD windfall for smart fabrics |
Holding court Friday morning at MIT, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is announcing $75 million in funding for the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, a nonprofit billed as “a revolutionary fibers and textiles manufacturing innovatio... |
| 15.03.2016 | Can Philadelphia transform itself into a national center for health IT innovation? |
This month, the Health Care Innovation Collaborative will announce winners from among 115 applicants for projects to improve patient care and outcomes for chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes and high blood pressure. Those selected wi... |
| 07.03.2016 | Phila. medical app firm takes a Vegas visit |
He was bound for HIMSS, the conclave of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which McCorkle calls “the biggest health-care technology meeting of the year,” collecting hospitals, drugmakers, drug researchers, cost acco... |
| 11.08.2015 | La Salle professor out to ‘change the standard’ of cancer care | Name: David Zuzga
Title: Co-founder and CEO of BioDetego
Other title: Faculty member in the biology department at La Salle University
His company: BioDetego was founded three years ago to commercialize cancer diagnostic technology Zuzga dev... |
| 10.06.2015 | New Philadelphia collaboration promotes innovation in health care |
The partners in the project — Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Drexel University, Independence Blue Cross, Safeguard Scientifics Inc. (NYSE:SFE... |
| 13.07.2012 | Message to healthcare innovators: reduce waste and improve value to advance healthcare reform (video) | For startup companies hoping to be healthcare innovators leading the wave of healthcare reform ushered in by the Affordable Care Act, the dean of the school of population health in Philadelphia has a message for you: focus on reducing waste... |
| 03.05.2012 | Nanotherapeutic targets tumors in lung cancer patients, saves healthy cells | Nanobiotix’s lead nanoXray therapeutic, NBTXR3, is injected into the tumor or the region of it and activated by radiation therapy. The nanoparticles are designed to strategically destroy tumors in soft tissue sarcoma patients by accumulatin... |
| 12.12.2011 | Tech transfer competition awards 3 early stage life sciences teams $200K | The Philadelphia University team, consisting of principal investigator Alex Messinger, Diana Cundell, Brian George and D.R. Widder, developed a new biocidal textile technology for hospitals and will look at technology to address market need... |
| 16.11.2011 | Israeli health IT companies pitch to the Philadelphia healthcare community | Dr. David Nash, the Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health, is also is a professor of health policy and shared his perspective of the event.
Mediviz Systems’ software manages the schedules of a healthcare facility’s surgery by re... |
| - | How Jefferson Health is caring for chronic disease patients amid a pandemic | As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage across the country, it has complicated care delivery in a myriad of ways. In particular, it has stymied efforts to provide chronic disease care for disadvantaged populations. But health systems, li... |
| - | Israeli health IT companies pitch to the Philadelphia healthcare community | The uncertainty of what a post healthcare reform landscape will look like in the United States is not deterring companies from other countries from pitching for business. At a conference hosted by the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce with... |
| - | (Q&A) Dreamit Ventures has added a bunch of healthcare partners to its accelerator | Dreamit Ventures has added several corporate partners who will work with its accelerator startups. Although it has worked with Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross ever since it launched a health tech accelerator, it has taken a more l... |
| - | Message to healthcare innovators: reduce waste and improve value to advance healthcare reform (video) | For startup companies hoping to be healthcare innovators leading the wave of healthcare reform ushered in by the Affordable Care Act, the dean of the school of population health in Philadelphia has a message for you: focus on reducing waste... |
| - | Dr. David Nash: “No outcome, no income” should be basis for pop health’s transformation | There are plenty of colleges offering medical degrees, nursing degrees and physician assistant degrees. But a degree in population health? That’s rare. Yet it’s exactly what the Jefferson College of Population Health offers.
Founded in 2008... |
| - | Tech transfer competition awards 3 early stage life sciences teams $200K | Bacteria-resistant textiles for hospitals to ward off hospital-acquired infections, a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer and a portable oxygen system were the winning technologies proposed by teams from three Pennsylvania universities co... |
| - | Emergency doctors share 7 longevity foods they eat to stay ‘healthy, full and energized’ every day | Most people assume doctors have perfect eating habits. But our days are busy and we rarely, if ever, have scheduled breaks. Many of us go entire shifts without sitting down to eat a full meal.
To avoid the vending machine or cabinets stocke... |
| - | Nanotherapeutic targets tumors in lung cancer patients, saves healthy cells | A French nanomedicine company developing a novel cancer therapeutic to strategically destroy tumors in lung cancer patients to improve survival rates has forged a research collaboration with an East Coast hospital.
Nanobiotix’s two-year res... |
