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Text Message Program Shows 60 Percent of Opioid Tablets Unused After Common...
“Through simple text messaging we highlight a method which gives clinicians the information they need to reduce prescribing and manage pain,” said co-lead author Anish Agarwal, MD, a clinical...
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Penn Medicine's Shelley L. Berger, PhD, and M. Celeste Simon, PhD, named 2021...
World-renowned genetics researcher Shelley L. Berger, PhD, and cellular biologist M. Celeste Simon, PhD, have been named as members of the 2021 class of fellows of the American Association for Cancer...
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WIC Child Nutrition Program Saw a Boost in Enrollment After Shift From Paper...
The U.S. government’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, usually abbreviated as WIC, saw a jump in enrollment of nearly 8 percent in states that implemented a...
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Penn Medicine Finds Viral Variants of Concern in Over a Third of Latest...
Despite the rising number of immunizations, more than a third of recent COVID-19 cases in the Philadelphia area are caused by concerning variants of the virus, according to a new analysis from a sample...
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Penn Medicine Researcher Awarded $1 Million to Expand COVID-19 Treatment...
CORONA is the world’s largest database of COVID-19 treatments, covering 400+ treatments that have been reported to be administered to 340,000+ patients, helping researchers to identify and prioritize...
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A Single Injection Reverses Blindness in Patient with Rare Genetic Disorder
A Penn Medicine patient with a genetic form of childhood blindness gained vision, which lasted more than a year, after receiving a single injection of an experimental RNA therapy into the eye. The...
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Penn Launches Region’s First Interdisciplinary Center Focused on Treating...
The Penn Nerve Center is led by Zarina Ali, MD, MS, FAANS, an assistant professor of Neurosurgery, and L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, FAOA, chair of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and a professor of...
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Penn Study Uncovers Possible COVID-19 Drugs — Including Several That Are...
A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has identified nine potential new COVID-19 treatments, including three that are already approved by the...
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Mysterious “Nuclear Speckle” Structures Inside Cells Enhance Gene Activity,...
A team led by scientists at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has illuminated the functions of mysterious structures in cells called “nuclear speckles,” showing that...
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Urgent Care Centers Deter Some Emergency Department Visits, But Costs Remain...
While the emergency department (ED) functions as an integral part of the United States healthcare safety net by handling all medical complaints regardless of insurance status, ED visits are expensive,...
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Medication Access for Opioid Use Disorder Lower Among Those Involved with...
A new study published today in Health Affairs reveals that Medicaid expansion is associated with substantial improvements in access to medications for OUD for individuals referred to substance use...
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Vaccinating 3,000 People in 3 Saturdays: An Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination...
Nationwide, the rollout for the COVID-19 vaccine has been inequitable, with white individuals being vaccinated at higher rates compared to Black individuals. In Philadelphia, only 21 percent of the...
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Awards & Accolades: March 2021
Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
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Penn Medicine at the 2021 American Association for Cancer Research Annual...
Experts from the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania will be presenting data on the latest advances in cancer research and treatment at AACR’s annual meeting from April 10 – 14.
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CD40 Drug Before Surgery Shows Promise in Early-stage Pancreatic Cancer
Giving early-stage pancreatic cancer patients a CD40 immune-stimulating drug helped jumpstart a T cell attack to the notoriously stubborn tumor microenvironment before surgery and other treatments,...
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New Biosealant Can Stabilize Cartilage, Promote Healing After Injury
A new biosealant therapy may help to stabilize injuries that cause cartilage to break down, paving the way for a future fix or – even better – begin working right away with new cells to enhance...
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Living in a Majority-Black Neighborhood Linked to Severe Maternal Morbidity
Residents in majority-Black neighborhoods experience higher rates of severe pregnancy-related health problems than those living in predominantly-white areas, according to a new study of pregnancies at...
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In Global Head-to-Head TAVR Study, Penn Medicine Completes First Procedure
Physicians at Penn Medicine have completed the first procedure in the Small Annuli Randomized to Evolut™ or Sapien (SMART) post-market trial, a randomized, head-to-head study comparing two...
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Modified Nanoparticles Can Stop Osteoarthritis Development
After a team of researchers showed that a certain enzyme’s presence in cartilage increased significantly in people with osteoarthritis, they targeted it with specially-loaded nanoparticles that stopped...
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The Chillest Ape: How Humans Evolved A Super-High Cooling Capacity
Humans have a uniquely high density of sweat glands embedded in their skin—10 times the density of chimpanzees and macaques. Now, researchers at Penn Medicine have discovered how this distinctive,...
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