Press Releases

Cooper Implants First Drug-Eluting Stent for PVD in New Jersey

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Cooper Vascular Surgeons implanted the first drug eluting stent for the treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) in the State of New Jersey. Zilver® PTX®(COOK MEDICAL, Bloomington, IN), the first drug-eluting stent (DES) stent of its kind, was recently approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and made available to only a select few centers of excellence in the country.

CMSRU Students Hold Unique Event for Local Youth to Mark MLK Day of Service

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On Monday, the fifty first-year medical students from Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) trained approximately 150 middle, high school and college students from throughout the region to become community leaders in exercise, nutrition and wellness.

2 Camden Neighborhoods Receive $500,000 Federal Grant

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Two Camden neighborhoods surrounding Cooper University Hospital and the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University have been awarded a $500,000 Promise Neighborhood Planning Grant. The one-year U.S. Department of Education award will be used to build a framework for the improvement of the Center for Family Services Cooper Lanning neighborhood in the next 10 years, with a focus on cradle-to-career.

Cooper in SchoolsParent Information Night at the LEAP Academy in Camden

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On December 4, Cooper in Schools presented health information for Parent Information Night at the LEAP Academy in Camden. Dr. Tom Drake, of the Department of Neurology and Development at Children’s Regional Hospital, and Dr. David Gealt, of the Cooper Bone & Joint Institute, spoke about concussions to a group of 35 parents and student athletes.

Cooper Orthopaedic Oncology Center First of Its Kind in South Jersey

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The Cooper Cancer Institute and Cooper Bone and Joint Institute have partnered to open the Orthopaedic Oncology Center, a multidisciplinary program dedicated to treating metastatic bone tumors, sarcomas and benign tumors of the bone and soft tissue. Under the direction of Richard D. Lackman, MD, FACS, who joined Cooper in July, this comprehensive program is the first of its kind in South Jersey.

Cooper University Health Care First in the Region to Offer Innovative Imaging System to Detect Breast Cancer

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For a woman facing even the slightest possibility of a breast cancer diagnosis, the answers can’t come soon enough. With GE Healthcare’s new SenoBright Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography (CESM) technology, physicians at Cooper Cancer Institute (CCI) have the potential to reach definitive decisions sooner—cutting the critical patient wait time from detection to diagnosis.