July 15, 2021

Caring For the Physical Health of Those With Mental Illness

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

June 15, 2021

Why Telehealth is Not Meeting the Needs of African Americans with Diabetes

Mistrust in physicians kept some Black patients with diabetes from using these services during the pandemic.

June 2, 2021

How to Cope While Caregiving for a Stroke Patient

Occupational and physical therapy experts provide tips for balancing self-care with helping loved ones on their road to recovery.

April 14, 2021

What Does the J&J Vaccine Pause Mean for Me?

A physician who treats clotting disorders explains what to look out for.

March 23, 2021

Four Ways to Avoid Back Pain

Back pain can interfere with you doing what you enjoy. Thankfully, there are some things you can do each and every day to prevent it.

March 19, 2021

Why Wearing a Mask Can Be Controversial

Researchers investigate the social drivers of mask wearing during COVID-19.

March 3, 2021

Mind Over Matter

One stroke patient's journey to help researchers understand if brain implants connected to a robotic arm brace can help him…and eventually other survivors…restore movement.

February 17, 2021

MATER Staff Turns to their Mindfulness Therapy Research to Navigate COVID-19 Stressors

Proven to help moms in through opioid abuse disorder, mindfulness practice may also be helpful to others in crisis.

February 10, 2021

Investigating the Long-term Impact of COVID-19

Jefferson researchers join a CDC study to follow COVID-19 “long-haulers” and their symptoms.

February 2, 2021

To Sleep or Not to Sleep?

Neuroscience researchers study how fruit flies decide between sleep and other behaviors, like mating, and the factors that influence that decision.

January 26, 2021

A Margin of Error

College of Nursing assistant professor Karen Alexander, PhD, RN, talks candidly and bravely about her unconscious bias that crept into the care she had once provided as a nurse.