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/PRNewswire/ -- Jefferson Health and Temple Health announced today that they have finalized Jefferson's pursuit of Temple's ownership interest of Health...

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Jefferson Health and Temple Health announced today that they have finalized Jefferson's pursuit of Temple's ownership interest of Health Partners...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Jessica H. Beard, MD, MPH, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of Trauma Research at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. view more  Credit: Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA) - While the COVID-19 pandemic brought most of the country to a standstill in March 2020, Philadelphia trauma surgeons noticed an alarming trend in the incidence of firearm violence. Instead of decreasing with containment measures, firearm-injured patients were presenting at even higher rates to Temple University Hospital and other trauma centers a...

 E-Mail (Philadelphia, PA) - Like a failing fuel pump that causes a loss of engine power in a car, a diseased heart can take a serious toll on the body's performance. For some patients, tasks like walking up a flight of stairs or walking across a room eventually turn into exhausting endeavors. This is because, over time, regardless of the underlying cause, heart damage typically progresses, owing to a constant barrage of oxidative stress and toxic lipids that alter heart cell energetics and, ultimately, the ability of the heart to function normally. Oxidative stress occurs when harmful oxyge...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Daniel J. Rubin, MD, MSc, FACE, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Chair of the Glycemic Control Taskforce at Temple University Hospital... view more  Credit: Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA) - Each year in the United States, more than 1 million patients with diabetes make return trips to the hospital for diabetes-related illness, often being readmitted within 30 days of their initial hospitalization. The costs of these return visits add up, in terms of dollars and in terms of the toll on patien...