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Our talented faculty and broad curriculum of nearly 300 academic programs provide superior educational opportunities for academically talented and highly motivated students, without regard to their status or station in life. Temple?s richly diverse student population and the dramatic growth of our residential campus community of student scholars enrich the educational and extracurricular life of our people. While the University especially serves students from Greater Philadelphia, it is enlivened by a rapidly increasing number of students from across Pennsylvania, throughout the nation, and around the world.We maintain an international presence with campuses in Tokyo and Rome and programs in London, Beijing, and six other locations worldwide. A long-time leader in professional education, Temple prepares the largest body of practitioners in Pennsylvania; we are among the nation?s largest educators in the combined fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry and law. In addition, we offer more than four dozen doctoral and more than 100 master?s degree programs that contribute to research and scholarship. Temple seeks to create new knowledge that improves the human condition and uplifts the human spirit.To achieve this goal, we maintain our commitment to recruiting, retaining, and supporting outstanding faculty that prize diversity of thought, excel in scholarly endeavors, and support the aspirations of capable students.
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Crozer, Temple ally for kidney transplants
- 2008-01-31
Temple University Hospital and Crozer-Chester Medical Center announced yesterday an alliance they say will allow kidney-transplant patients who live in Delaware and Chester Counties to receive most of their care close to home. Under the agreement, people who need kidney transplants can receive their evaluation, pre- and postoperative treatment at...
Blacks receive unequal nursing-home care
- 2007-09-12
A new report reveals a system of separate and unequal nursing-home care for black Americans, one that could expose frail seniors to substandard care. The study, out in the September/October issue of Health Affairs, finds that 60% of blacks in nursing homes ended up in just...
Temple Health System to lay off 500 workers
- 2007-02-18
Temple University Health System said Friday that it would cut 500 jobs in a major reorganization attempting to restore financial health to the four-hospital network, which serves as the safety net for some of the city's poorest neighborhoods. In a city with no public hospital, Temple has, to a...
Temple Health System to cut 500 employees
- 2007-02-17
Temple University Health System said yesterday that it would cut 500 jobs in a major reorganization attempting to restore financial health to the four-hospital network, which serves as the safety net for some of the city's poorest neighborhoods. In a city with no public hospital, Temple has, to a...
A breath of hope on emphysema
- 2006-10-26
Researchers are finding innovative nonsurgical ways to combat the suffocating effects of emphysema, an incurable, progressive lung disease that afflicts nearly three million Americans. In Philadelphia, a hotbed of the research, Temple University Lung Center is testing an injectible gel that shrinks diseased lung tissue. The center's first two patients...
Ronnie Polaneczky | Docs should help Temple nurses
- 2006-09-26
YESTERDAY'S noontime rally at Temple University Hospital had almost everything you'd expect at a gathering of people on the verge of walking a picket line. There were hundreds of unionized nurses and other health-care workers issuing the ubiquitous "What do we want? (Patient Safety!)" and "When do we want it?...
Ronnie Polaneczky | Temple nurses are sounding an alarm that we all should listen to
- 2006-09-12
DURING college, I worked as a nursing-unit clerk in a Philly community hospital. The most important thing the experience did for me, besides pay my tuition, was to illustrate the truth of the saying, "Doctors may save patients, but nurses keep them alive." The saying isn't meant to offend physicians,...
PHT LogPad Enables Temple University to Examine Clinical Benefit of a Medical Call Center upon Patients with COPD; Novel Trial Aims to Reduce COPD-Related Deaths and Hospitalizations, Improve Quality of Life, Lung Function and Everyday Activity
- 2006-07-17
CHARLESTOWN, Mass. -- PHT Corporation, the market-leading provider of electronic patient reported outcome ePRO solutions used in a record 225 dedicated eDiary trials worldwide, is pleased to announce another first for its LogPadR System. Temple University School of Medicine has selected the LogPad for use in a novel study investigating...
Jill Porter | Shot, and shot again: Will Philly be a bounce-back?
- 2006-07-14
THE GUNSHOT victim was in dire condition - pale, bloodied, unconscious and already half-dead when the massive medical effort to save him got under way. "Part of the dictum is: Find all the holes and count them up," Dr. Kevin M. Bradley said of the protocol for gunshot victims....
Winning hearts
- 2006-07-10
It was a typical Friday afternoon for the heart program at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne: busy. Two patients were on a spiffy new floor recovering from heart bypasses done without stopping their hearts - a technique growing in popularity. Two floors down, a doctor had just...
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