A recent study led by Preeti Zanwar, PhD, MPH, MS, an adjunct research and teaching faculty and aging and health disparities researcher at Jefferson, sheds light on the prevalence of multimorbidity among aging adults in India and recommends how public health officials can prevent adverse effects.

In a recent study, Scott A. Waldman, MD, PhD, and his team discovered that a gut receptor protein called GUCY2C could prevent PD development by protecting against brain damage and toxic insult.

“Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (RDEB) is the worst disease you’ve probably never heard of,” says dermatology researcher, Andrew South, PhD. RDEB patients and their families know just how horrible it can be.

In a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examining how patterns of prenatal substance use impact attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses in children, researchers found that co-use of alcohol and tobacco, and use of cannabis alone, posed the greatest risk.

In a recent study, Jefferson researcher and first author Wookjin Choi, PhD, developed an artificial-intelligence algorithm that could re-analyze these PET/CT images and accurately predict patients with more inflammation in the heart – often a precursor of long-term damage.

Neuroscientist Manuel Covarrubias, MD, PhD and his research assistant Qiansheng Liang, MD led a study published in Nature Communications that focused on Kv3 channels, the subclass of voltage-gated potassium channels that selectively bind AUT5. 

A new study with senior author Marja Nevalainen, MD, PhD, a translational medicine physician-scientist, suggests that a clever trick of cell signaling may curbs tumor growth through a different route.

Using the creative problem-solving framework of design thinking, Drs. Rios-Vega, Fields and Schaaf analyzed healthcare environments and met with parents of autistic children, healthcare professionals and designers to collaboratively brainstorm how the experience could be improved.

A new study led by Thomas Jefferson University researchers has found that American currency carries much more than germs on its surface.