Governor Christie, Officials Break Ground for KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joined other officials on March 5, 2014,  as ground was broken for the state’s first renaissance school, KIPP Co...

Cooper Executives Among “New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business”
Adrienne Kirby, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cooper University Health Care, and Susan Bass Levin, President and Chief Executive Offic...

Snow Alert: Monday, March 3, 2014
Due to the inclement weather that is impacting our area, Cooper Physician Offices, Laboratory, and Radiology Services will be closed on Monday, March...

Your Daughter’s First Gynecologic Visit
By scheduling your “tween” or teenage daughter for her first gynecologic visit, you are crossing a bridge that acknowledges her change from a litt...

Arthritis: Rheumatism or Rheumatoid?
Most of us know a family member who has complained of joint pain. Patients often have a family history of arthritis, but not all types of arthritis ar...

Sibling Torment: “In-House” Bullying
Parents regularly come in to my office reporting about the challenges they have in dealing with their children’s behavior. When asked about how the...

From Texas to New Jersey – One Couple Finds Leading Cancer Care
A diagnosis of cancer is always frightening. For Ted and Marianne Colanduno, it was double the anxiety. Within the span of three years, both husband a...

TAVR at Cooper: A minimally invasive way to heal the heart
William Pinto had been in and out of hospitals for over a year for various ailments that included pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs due to heart fai...

Melvin’s Story: The Smallest Grip, The Biggest Heart
Melvin was born at Cooper nine weeks premature, weighing only 2.9 pounds. He spent his first few weeks of life under the watchful eyes of the staff in...

From Skiing to Tennis to Break Dancing, Cooper Bone and Joint Keeps Graham Going
As a successful business man, 55-year-old Steve Graham believes in maintaining a sound mind and sound body. That positive energy has translated into h...

Courier-Post: Ravitz Family Foundation Winter Event Featured in Courier-Post
The Ravitz Family Foundation’s annual Winter Event at Catelli Duo on December 18 was featured in the Courier-Post. The Cooper Foundation Board Membe...

Cooper Orthopaedic Oncology Center First of Its Kind in South Jersey
The Cooper Cancer Institute and Cooper Bone and Joint Institute partnered to open the Orthopaedic Oncology Center, a multidisciplinary program dedicat...

Cooper Cardiologists Discuss Women’s Heart Month With WXPN
Heart disease kills one in three women every year. Cooper cardiologists Andrea M. Russo, MD and Kathleen M. Heintz, DO, FACC joined WXPN morning show...

Menopause and Women’s Heart Disease Risks – Know the Facts
Joanne Mazzarelli, MD While menopause is a natural part of aging for women, it’s important for women to consider this along with the aging process i...

The Mediterranean Diet…too good to be true? Find out!
ave you already concluded that those unwanted pounds are not coming off in 2014? Do you imagine going on a “diet” that requires you to eat delicio...

Meniscal Transplant
Lawrence S. Miller, MD Director, Cooper Bone and Joint Institute What is a meniscus? The meniscus is a fibrous cartilage tissue that sits between the...

Nicaragua 2014: First Day in the OR
Our day began at 5:30 a.m. with Nicaraguan coffee and white pineapple for breakfast – delicioso. Our first case was a 12-year-old boy who had a...

Nicaragua 2014: Healing soles – one foot at a time
Day 1: Philly to Managua My team and I departed from Philly, 3 a.m. and 15 degrees with pending Nor’easter and arrived in Managua, Nicaragua 12:37...

PREVENTION GUIDELINES
Since its inception in 1979, The Skin Cancer Foundation has always recommended using a sunscreen with an SPF 15 or higher as one important part of a c...

WHAT IS SKIN CANCER?
Skin cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal skin cells. It occurs when unrepaired DNA damage to skin cells (most often caused by ultraviolet ra...

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
A Message From The President – Fall 2013 As the end of summer vacation nears and most of us return to our regular daily routines, it’s easy to...

The Cooper Movement Disorders Center – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Care
At the Cooper Movement Disorders Center, our multidisciplinary team uses the latest treatments, technology, and research to help patients suffering fr...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Protection . . . Without Touching the Heart
The Cooper Heart Institute now offers the world’s first and only totally subcutaneous implantable cardiac defibrillator, the S-ICD® System, for eli...

Cooper First in Region to Offer New Imaging Technology to Detect Breast Cancer
The Cooper Cancer Institute (CCI) is the only center in the tri-state region and among the first ten sites in the U.S. to offer GE Healthcare’s new...

Home
I have now returned from Ethiopia, safe, sound and thoroughly exhausted.  Many thanks for following along my trip and all the well-wishes!  Happy ho...

Takeoff
I have been here more than 2 weeks now and since I first arrived I have wanted to get the new power dill up and working. I was determined to do it.

The Price of Progress
This being my fourth visit to Addis over 6 years I have seen many things change at the hospital.  And with each new development the cynical part of m...

Helping Hands: A Medical Mission to Haiti (Video)
A team of 17 doctors, nurses and technicians from Cooper deployed on a medical mission just days after a devastating earthquake left the country of Ha...

Care of Haitians Continues by Cooper’s Own: Eric Farrell, M.D., On Location in Haiti
Last week, Cooper Orthopaedic surgeon Eric Farrell left on a two week mission to continue to provide much needed medical care to Haitians injured from...

In The News: A Local Reporter Sifts Through the Rubble, Team Returns from Haiti to a Hero’s Welcome and more
As our medical team returned from Haiti and the Dominican Republic earlier in the week  (view photos on courierpostonline.com), they shared their sto...