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Liver Fat Gets a Wake-Up Call That Maintains Blood Sugar Levels, According to...
A Penn research team, led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, reports in Nature...
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Penn Receives $25 Million Gift to Create Basser Research Center for Inherited...
A $25 million gift to the University of Pennsylvania from alumni Mindy and Jon Gray will establish a center focused on the treatment and prevention of cancers associated with hereditary BRCA mutations.
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Block Its Recycling System, and Cancer Kicks the Can, According to New Penn...
All cells have the ability to recycle unwanted or damaged proteins and reuse the building blocks as food. But cancer cells have ramped up the system, called autophagy, and rely on it to escape damage...
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Penn Medicine-Led Cardiovascular Health Screening Technology Receives...
The American Heart Association (AHA) announced today that they have made their first investment through the Science and Technology Accelerator Program into CytoVas, LLC.
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Tool Helps Physicians Rethink Potential Risks, Benefits for Test Given to 14...
A new electronic medical record tool that tallies patients' previous radiation exposure from CT scans helps reduce potentially unnecessary use of the tests among emergency room patients with abdominal...
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Graduation and Mother's Day Combined: Perelman School of Medicine Students...
One hundred and thirty-nine Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania students will take the Hippocratic Oath for the first time as new doctors this Sunday, May 13, 2012.
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Lifesaving Devices Missing Near the Scene of Three Quarters of Cardiac...
More than 75 percent of cardiac arrest victims are stricken too far away from an automated external defibrillator for the lifesaving device to be obtained quickly enough to offer the best chance at...
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Black Cardiac Arrest Victims Less Apt to Receive CPR and Shocks to the Heart...
Black cardiac arrest victims who are stricken outside hospitals are less likely to receive bystander CPR and defibrillation on the scene than white patients, according to research that will be...
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Sundown Syndrome-like Symptoms in Fruit Flies May be Due to High Dopamine Levels
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a mechanism involving the neurotransmitter dopamine that switches fruit fly behavior from being active during...
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FDA-approved Drug Makes Established Cancer Vaccine Work Better, Penn Study Finds
A team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania found that the FDA-approved drug daclizumab improved the survival of...
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New Research from Penn Medicine Challenges Established Concept that Raising...
A new study published by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Broad Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital, challenges the conventional concept...
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Photodynamic Therapy Added to Lung-Sparing Surgery Improves Survival for...
Among patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma, treatment with lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) yielded unusually long survival rates, with median survival rates...
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Perelman School of Medicine Selected by National Institutes of Health as a...
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and School of Dental Medicine, has been designated a national...
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Prescription-Drug Monitoring Programs Needed to Curtail Dangers Associated...
Individual use of prescription opioids has increased four-fold since the mid-1990s, in part due to increased awareness of pain control for chronic conditions such as low back pain and fibromyalgia and...
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First Your Big Idea Tournament Collected over 1,700 Ideas and 66,000 Ratings...
Two teams of employees were selected as winners in Penn Medicine's first employee Your Big Idea Innovation Tournament for projects aimed at improving the patient and caregiver experience at Penn...
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Penn Medicine Cancer Research and Experts at ASCO
Resources for Media Covering the American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting June 1-5, 2012.
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Two Winners Take Grand Prize in Penn Medicine's MyHeartMap Challenge
Two Philadelphia-area residents have been named the winners of Penn Medicine's MyHeartMap Challenge, the citywide crowdsourcing contest aimed at locating and mapping all of the lifesaving automated...
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Penn Study Finds Delayed Side Effects of Head and Neck Cancer Treatments Go...
National data show that currently more than 10 percent of preschoolers in the United States are obese, and an additional 10 percent are overweight. In a recently published article, a researcher from...
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Researchers Call for Obesity Prevention Efforts to Focus on Community-Wide...
National data show that currently more than 10 percent of preschoolers in the United States are obese, and an additional 10 percent are overweight. In a recently published article, a researcher from...
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Three Penn Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Perelman School of Medicine professors Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD, the Isaac Norris Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Beatrice H. Hahn, MD, professor of Medicine and Microbiology,...
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