First Demonstration of New Hair Follicle Generation in an Animal Model Implications for Treating Hair Loss, Skin Disorders, According to Penn Study; Live Webcast -- Fox Chase Cancer Center Hosts “Toward a Future Without Cancer: Goals for the 21^st Century;” Symposium Features Heads of NCI, FDA, ACS, BIO and the CEO Roundtable on Cancer; Bare-Metal Stents are Better for Some Heart Patients, Jefferson Scientists Find

Children’s Hospital To Open World’s First Comprehensive Medical Unit for Mothers Carrying Fetus with Known Birth Defect; Fox Chase Cancer Center Offers da Vinci Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery for Gynecologic Cancers; Jefferson Scientists in Nationwide Trial to Study Creatine for Parkinson’s Disease; Penn:  First Demonstration of Muscle Restoration in an Animal Model of Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy

Fox Chase Cancer Center Taps National Leader as Next President and CEO; Fox Chase Cancer Center Offers GPS-like Tracking Technology During Prostate Cancer Treatment; Surgeons at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are First in Pennsylvania to Implant Jarvik 2000 Heart Assist System in Heart Failure Patient; A Closer Look Inside Our Lungs: Penn Researchers Develop Two Novel Imaging Techniques Aiming for Earlier Detection of Disease

Temple University Hospital Establishes Clinical Hub to Study Neurological Emergencies, Treatments as Part of NIH Grant; CHOP’s Dr. Meadows Pioneer in Field Studying Childhood Cancer Survivors; Jefferson Oncologists Show Less Radiation Just as Effective in Fighting Brain Tumor, Saving Hearing; Fox Chase: Largest Study to Evaluate PSA “Bounce” Shows Overall Survival Is Not Affected

Three Vaccine Scientists Honored With The Gold Medal of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Department of Defense Awards $10.7 Million Center of Excellence Grant to Fox Chase Cancer Center’s V. Craig Jordan for Research on New Breast Cancer Treatment; Temple University Hospital Lung Center Awarded JCAHO Certification; Among First in the Nation to Earn Gold Seal of Approval in Lung Volume Reduction Surgery

Wills Eye at Jefferson, one of the top three ophthalmology hospitals in the United States, is joining the Philadelphia International Medicine network for international patient care.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Philadelphia International Medicine (PIM) hospitals among the nation’s best in all 16 specialty listings, headed by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) which was again ranked as the best pediatric hospital in America.

Most Advanced Proton Therapy Treatment Facility To Be Constructed by University of Pennsylvania; Will Decrease Destruction of Surrounding Normal Tissue;
Study by Jefferson Surgeon Shows Age May Not Have To Be Deciding Factor in Cancer Surgery;
With Approval of Second Cancer Vaccine, Fox Chase Cancer Center Recalls Role in Discovery and Development of First Vaccine

Procedure for Patients at Risk for Esophageal Cancer being studied at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital;
MossRehab Physician Among Philadelphia’s “Top Docs”;
Penn Researcher Receives First Annual Prize for Scientific Contributions to Women’s Health from the Society for Women’s Health Research

Live on the Web--Jefferson Surgeons Perform Leading Edge Minimally Invasive Surgery to Remove Pituitary Tumor;
Therapeutic Prospects Beyond Vioxx: Penn Study Suggests New Class of Anti-inflammatory Drugs that Might Lessen Chance of COX-2 Cardiovascular Problems;
New Rotavirus Vaccine Traced Back to Three Scientists Associated with Children’s Hospital

Strokes in Children Need to Be Recognized Quickly ;
Jefferson Offers Minimally Invasive Surgery for Removing Brain and Skull Base Tumors; Breakthrough allows doctors to remove brain tumors through nose and nasal sinuses;
Crozer-Chester Medical Center Opens ‘Acute Care of Elders’ Unit;
Penn Researcher Christopher M. Clark, MD, Selected for National Task Force on Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease

Fox Chase Cancer Center Begins Ovarian Cancer Proteomics Study To Identify Biologic “Fingerprint” of the Disease;
Penn Researchers Create Technique to Engineer Nerve Tissue “Jumper Cables” to Repair Spinal Cord Injury, in Animal Model; Technique Holds Promise for Spinal-Cord Repair in Humans;
Experts Head New Jefferson Program Specializing in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Disorders

MossRehab Adds Top Brain Injury Program to Suburban Philadelphia Campus;
Independent National Study Recognizes Crozer for Excellence in Cardiac Care;
Obesity Increases Endometrial Cancer Risk, but Minimally Invasive Surgery Offers Hope

Live Webcast Will Give Close-up View of Robotic Surgery for Prostate Cancer Offered by Jefferson’s Multidisciplinary Urologic Cancer Team;
Crozer Physician to Chair State Cancer Advisory Board;
The Children’s Hospital Marks 150th Anniversary

Trial at Jefferson Shows New Drug May Help Cancer Patients in Need of Stem Cell Transplants;
Penn Surgeons Use Completely Robotic Surgery To Treat Prostate Cancer;
Fox Chase Researchers, Others, Say They Have Identified a Biomarker That Indicates a More Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer

Fox Chase-Temple Bone Marrow Transplant Program Increases Capacity, Services;
Jefferson Neurosurgeons, Radiation Oncologists Wrap Radiation Around Spine to Provide Cancer Pain Relief ;
Jefferson Surgeons to Perform Immediate Breast Reconstruction Surgery Live on Internet Sept. 29;
MossRehab Welcomes Michael F. Saulino, MD, PhD and Theera Vachranukunkiet, MD as Attending Physicians;
Penn Study Finds a New Role for RNA in Human Immune Response Penn Findings Could Lead To New Types of Therapeutic RNAs for Cancer, Genetic Diseases

PIM Member Hospitals Rated Among Best by U.S. News & World Report

Report Says New Focus Needed to Produce New Drugs for Children with Cancer ;
Jefferson Researcher’s Results Show Promise for Metastatic Eye Melanoma;
“Laser Tweezers” Permits Penn Researchers to Describe Microscopic Mechanical Properties of Blood Clots

Fox Chase Cancer Center Study Finds Prostate Cancer in 25 Percent of High-Risk Men with “Normal” PSA Levels;
Jefferson Vascular Surgeons Go on Web to Demonstrate Less Invasive Treatment than Vein Stripping for Varicose Veins;
PENN Researchers Use Completely Robotic Surgery to Dramatically Reduce Physical Trauma for Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Penn Researchers Determine Structure of Binding Site of Colon-Cancer Drug and Its Protein Target;
Children’s Hospital Identifies Abnormal Brain Tissue Associated with Perception Problems;
Temple’s New Knee Replacement Procedure and Implant Offer Longer Lasting Results

2005 Continuing Medical Education Video Conference Services

MossRehab Opens New Center; 30-bed Stroke Unit and 20-bed Spinal Cord Injury Rehab Unit;
Penn Researchers Identify Link between Critical Cancer Pathway and Epstein-Barr Virus Protein ;
Children’s Hospital Study Suggests Efforts to Prevent Obesity Should Focus on Children with Overweight Mothers ;
Temple University Hospital’s Innovative Rapid Response Team Improves Patient Outcomes; Reduces Patient Mortality and Morbidity

Jefferson Live Webcast Will Bring Visitors into Virtual World of Computer Assisted Partial Knee Replacement;
Father of the Breast Cancer Drug Tamoxifen Joins Fox Chase Cancer Center;
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Expands Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Again Named Best in US ;
Jefferson Scientists Find Zinc May Help Prevent Esophageal, Oral Cancers ;
Can The Standard Course of Radiation Therapy Following Lumpectomy for Breast Cancer Be Shortened Without Increasing Side Effects? ;
Penn Creates Three Biomedical Institutes Harnessing over $100 Million in Research Funding

Newborns with Heart Defects Have Low Blood Flow in Brain Before Surgery, Say Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia;
Jefferson Using Shaped Beam Surgery to Sculpt Therapy for Hard-to-Treat Brain Tumors;
Fox Chase Cancer Center Nurses Receive Magnet Re-Designation;
New Penn Surgical Suites Outfitted with Robotic, Fluroscopic Technology

Crozer-Keystone and Fox Chase Cancer Center Create Clinical and Research Partnership;
Jefferson Research Shows Red Wine Is Heart Healthier;
Penn Researcher Receives $1 Million Grant for Cancer Gene Therapy Research

Vector Insertion is Viral Specific: Mapping integration sites has implications for better-engineered gene therapies and new HIV drugs;
Molecular Therapeutics Advance Fight Against Brain Cancer;
Children's Hospital Doctor Named Head of Gene Therapy Society;
MossRehab Study: Ritalin Helps Individuals Recovering From Brain Injury;
Jefferson Researcher Planning New Trial Testing Targeted Agent for High-Risk Prostate Cancer

Continuing Medical Education listing for summer/fall 2004

Philadelphia International Medicine (PIM) hospitals and physicians ranked among the best in the United States in the annual "Best Hospitals" edition of U.S. News & World Reports.

Minimally Invasive Vascular Surgery was Last, Best Hope for Life-Threatening Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm;
MossRehab Joins Multi-National Clinical Study of Medication to Treat Severe Traumatic Brain Injury;
Adrenaline Packs a Powerful Punch in the Use of Antidepressants, According to an Animal-Model Study at Penn

Colon Cancer from Prevention to Treatment: A Live Discussion on the Web at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital;
Research at Fox Chase Targeting Tumor Cell Invasion; Focus Is on Biological Target Directly Connected to Cancer Progression;
Innovative Research Methods at Children's Hospital, Drexel Discovered Gene for Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, Disabling Genetic Disease;
Heart Failure and Transplant Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Evaluates Heart Failure Treatments for Landmark Nationwide Study

Fox Chase Cancer Center Research Reveals How COX-2 Causes Ovarian Cancer; Finding Helps Understand How COX-2 Inhibitors May Prevent This Lethal Disease;
MossRehab Offers First Neurological Physical Therapy Residency;
Temple Celebrates Two Decades of Leadership In Heart Care;
Penn ICUs to be Linked Through Smart Technology;
Increasing the Body's Good Cholesterol May be a Pill Away; Penn Study Pinpoints Protein Inhibitor that Raises HDL Levels

Failure of DNA Repair Mechanism Precedes Final Stage of Deadly Leukemia, New Penn Study Shows;
New Advancements In Treatment of Vocal Cord Paralysis at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Help Patients Speak Up;
Children's Hospital Study Focuses on Circulation Abnormality That Can Target Pregnant Women Carrying Twins

Jefferson Researchers Find Immune Response and Dosing Keys to Vaccine's Success Against Melanoma;
University of Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Vaccine Study Supported by Unique "Progress for Patients" Grant from Avon and National Cancer Institute;
Fox Chase Cancer Center "Tailors" Radiation Therapy To Help Reduce Erectile Dysfunction in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer

Temple Doctors Use Removable Filter Device to Prevent Life-Threatening Blood Clots;
Fox Chase Researchers Demonstrate Ability to Detect Kidney Cancer through Urine;
New Drug May Help Cancer Patients in Need of Stem Cell Transplants, Jefferson Trial Shows;
Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Program Established at PENN Medicine with a $6 Million Gift

Temple’s Pulmonary Hypertension Program Improves Diagnosis and Treatment;
Penn Study Finds Physicians Should Prescribe Cholesterol-lowering Medicines More To Select Patients While Still Hospitalized;
Nation’s First Hospital Opens 21st Century Critical Care Complex

Philadelphia International Medicine Listing of CME and other Course Offerings

Innovative Procedure for Treating Uterine Fibroid Tumors Will be Demonstrated on the Web at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital;
Temple Gastroenterology Investigates New Treatment for Gastroparesis;
Pennsylvania Hospital Awarded Joint Commission Accreditation and Top-tier Reviews

Philadelphia International Medicine and Clinica Indisa Sign Health Gateway

Philadelphia International Medicine Wins 2003 Governor's Export Excellence Award in Services

Temple Gastroenterology Investigates New Treatment for Gastroparesis;
Men At Greater Risk of Developing Prostate Cancer When A Brother Has the Disease; Fox Chase Cancer Center Study Finds Risk is Increased Nearly Three-Fold;
Burn Treatment Center at Crozer Marks 30th Year

Crozer Fertility Center Offers New Option for Patients;
Procedure at Jefferson Can Allow Some Transplants from Incompatible Living Donors;
New Tool Helps Doctors Predict PTSD Following a Child Traumatic Injury

Fox Chase Cancer Center Physicians Study Breast Cancer Vaccine;
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Researchers Conclude That Ultrasound Can Help Detect Ligament Wear and Tear in Athletes;
Breakthrough Partial Surgical Approach Cured 91 Percent of infants of Hyperinsulinism;
Penn Named One of Best in Nation at Incorporating Internet and Web Technology

PIM Hospitals Ranked Among Best in America; The Children's Hospital Ranked Number One

Children's Hospital Team Successful in Treating Focal Congenital Hyperinsulinism;
Temple Study: Rb2 Gene May Play Significant Role in Determining Effectiveness of Drug Therapies Against Breast Cancer;
Penn Researchers Breed Most to Model "Jumping Genes"

PIM/Jefferson Internet Webcast to Highlight Diagnostic Technique for Lung Cancer ;
MossRehab Conducts Video Seminar with Italy Rehabilitation Hospital ;
Crozer-Keystone Presented Leadership Award for Work in Evidence-Based Medicine

Fox Chase Cancer Center Offers "Personalized Vaccines";
Jefferson Study Indicates Diagnostic Ultrasound Can Help Detect Wear in the UCL;
Esquenazi Named Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at MossRehab

Philadelphia International Medicine is proud to announce an 
up and coming Webcast entitled "Current Issues in the Management of Multiple Sclerosis" for May 8, 2003 at 1:00 p.m. US EST.

"Mini-Transplants" Offer New Hope for Older Cancer Patients;
Cardiac Resynchronization: Crozer-Chester Medical Center Offers Heart Failure Patients a New Therapy;
CHOP Study Shows Children with Heart Defects Benefited from Milrinone After Surgery

Philadelphia International Medicine Signs Marketing Agreement with China Trade Center

Renowned Liver Transplant Surgeon Named Director of Jefferson Program;
MossRehab Gains $2 Million Grant for Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury;
Advanced Radiation Technique Minimizes Side Effects in Breast Cancer Treatment

Philadelphia International Medicine (PIM) and Chowgule Mediconsult Private Limited (CMPL) have jointly established a medical second-opinion program that will provide benefits to patients in India as well as the Philadelphia medical community.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Again Ranked Number One in the U.S.;
Magee Physiatrists Earn Subspecialty Certification in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine;
Penn Center for Human Appearance Helps Train Physicians Worldwide in Plastic Surgery

Research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Can Open Door to Prenatal Treatment of Genetic Diseases;
Fox Chase Cancer Center Looks to the Sea to Develop Future Cancer Treatment;
Temple University Hospital Team Treats Cervical Cancer While Preserving Ability to Give Birth

Penn Study Looks at Weight Gain as a Result of Diabetes Treatment;
Fox Chase Offering Free TRAM Flap for Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy;
Combining Two Types of Radiation Therapy Better for Treating Brain Cancer

Philadelphia International Medicine educational sessions available to international physicians and other health care practitioners.

PET/CT Scanning Available at Fox Chase Cancer Center Aiding Physicians in Detecting and Accurately Diagnosing Cancers;
More Than 100 Physicians at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Make Best Doctor's List;
Stealth Surgery Available at Jefferson; Use of Infrared Optics Allows for Less Invasive Procedures;
Allogeneic Stem Cell Mini-transplants at Temple University Hospital Show Great Promise Health Systems

Philadelphia International Medicine To Host Middle East Medical Exchange;
New Jefferson Research to More Accurately Picture Extent of Colorectal Cancer;
Temple University Hospital GI Department Offers Innovative Treatments;
Crozer-Keystone Health System Again Named One of the Top Integrated Health Systems

The hospitals and physicians that make up Philadelphia International Medicine (PIM) once again scored impressively in the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital's issue.

Penn Researchers Determine Urine Test Can Predict Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease; Temple Interventional Cardiologists Implanting Stent That May Dramatically Lower Risk of Subacute Stent Thrombosis;
Jefferson Trial Looks to Improve Diagnosis of Prostate Canceron;
Children's Hospital Hematologist Recognized For Patient-Oriented Research

Philadelphia International Medicine (PIM) recently signed agreements with key health care organizations in Brazil; Hospital Anchieta, Ltda., Brasilia and Johnson & Johnson, Brazil.

Children's Hospital Work Can Lay Groundwork for Controlled Trial of Fetal Study for Spina Bifida;
Temple University Hospital Establishes Aortic Surgery Center;
Outcomes at Crozer's Burn Center Enhanced by Team Approach; One of First To Gain Accreditation