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Invitation to Cover: Penn Health Policy Experts Gather to Discuss Historic...
Immediately following Thursday's anticipated Supreme Court of the United States ruling on the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- which called for sweeping changes that would provide...
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Penn Medicine Emergency Physician Appointed to Federal Council For Emergency...
Roger A. Band, MD, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed to serve on the National Emergency Medical...
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Chief Resident in Urology Recognized for Work for Women with Pelvic Floor...
Lindsey Menchen, MD, chief resident in Urology, was recently selected for the Award for Excellence in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery by the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS).
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Douglas Wallace to Receive Gruber Foundation 2012 Genetics Prize
Douglas C. Wallace, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, is the recipient of the 2012 Genetics Prize of the Gruber...
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For Cardiac Stenting Procedures, Wrist Access Offers Cost Saving Benefits...
In the United States, radial artery (wrist) catheterization is performed in the minority of diagnostic angiograms and cardiac stenting procedures despite the benefits it offers to patients in terms of...
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Nehal Mehta, MD, Penn Medicine Cardiologist, Named First NIH-Lasker Clinical...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), in partnership with the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, has announced that Nehal N. Mehta, MD, director of Inflammatory Risk in Preventive Cardiology at Penn...
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Penn Neurologist First American to Receive Highest Ecuadorean Scientific Prize
The Ecuadorean National Assembly has bestowed its highest scientific award to Donald Silberberg, MD, professor emeritus and former Chair of Neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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HIV Drug Reduces Graft-versus-Host Disease in Bone Marrow Transplant...
An HIV drug that redirects immune cell traffic significantly reduces the incidence of a dangerous complication that often follows bone marrow transplants for blood cancer patients, according to...
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Penn Expert Addresses Ethical Implications of Testing for Alzheimer's Disease...
Diagnostic tests are increasingly capable of identifying plaques and tangles present in Alzheimer's disease, yet the disease remains untreatable.
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Popular Herbal Remedy Used by Patients to Treat Hepatitis C-Related Liver...
Silymarin, an extract of milk thistle commonly used to treat chronic liver disease by millions of people around the World, does not offer significant improvements for patients, according to a new study...
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Penn Medicine Hospitals Recognized for Outstanding Performance by U.S. News...
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) (www.pennmedicine.org) has once again been ranked among the top hospitals in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.
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Anti-Tau Drug Improves Cognition, Decreases Tau Tangles in Alzheimer's...
While clinical trial results are being released regarding drugs intended to decrease amyloid production - thought to contribute to decline in Alzheimer's disease - clinical trials of drugs targeting...
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Penn Medicine's David Sarwer, PhD, Honored with Circle of Excellence Award...
David Sarwer, PhD, professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been honored by the American Society of Metabolic and...
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Benefits of HIV Drugs Rise -- But Less Than Previously Believed, Penn Study...
The percentage of HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs who experienced the full benefit of the drugs jumped from 45 percent of 72 percent during the past decade, a figure that is lower than...
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Pennsylvania Hospital Selected for Unprecedented National Effort to Increase...
Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) has been selected to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a first-of-its-kind national effort to significantly improve breastfeeding rates in states where rates are currently...
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Two Penn Researchers Share McKnight Technology Award
James Eberwine, PhD, professor of Pharmacology, and Ivan J. Dmochowski, PhD, associate professor of Chemistry, at the University of Pennsylvania, received a 2012 McKnight Technological Innovations in...
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Penn Medicine Professor Named to IOM Committee on Graduate Medical Education...
David A. Asch, MD, MBA, executive director of the Penn Medicine Center for Innovation and the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management and Economics in the Perelman School of Medicine and...
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New FDA Program Adds to Tools to Curb Opioid Abuse in United States
A new risk management plan from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help clinicians properly prescribe drugs with addiction potential aims to help reduce the growing epidemic of opioid abuse in...
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Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Goes to Penn...
A physician from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has received the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in...
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NIH Awards $18.5 Million to Personalized Therapeutics Consortium Led by Penn...
The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded $18.5 million to establish the Personalized NSAID Therapeutics Consortium (PENTACON), an international...
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