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No Increase in Severe Cardiovascular Events for Children, Adolescents Taking...
Despite recent concerns that medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could increase the risk of cardiovascular events in children and adolescents, an observational study...
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Genetic Variation Impacts Brain Opioid Receptors in Smokers, Penn Study Shows
Nearly everyone who has tried to quit smoking says it's incredibly difficult, and the struggle is due in part to genetic factors. Now, a new study from the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine...
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Penn Study Shows Two Heart Drugs Ineffective in Treating Pulmonary Arterial...
Despite their beneficial effects in heart disease, neither aspirin nor simvastatin appear to offer benefit to patients suffering from pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), according to research from...
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"Top 5" List Helps Primary Care Doctors Make Wiser Clinical Decisions
A physician panel in the primary care specialty of internal medicine has identified common clinical activities where changes in practice could lead to higher quality care and better use of finite...
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Children's Access to Emergency Care for Broken Teeth Often Hinges on Ability...
Less than 40 percent of children who are insured via Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Programs are able to obtain care for a dental emergency, compared to 95 percent of those with private...
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Readmission Rates Via Emergency Rooms Climbing Among Patients Who Have...
Emergency department patients who have recently been hospitalized are more than twice as likely to be admitted as those who have not recently been in the hospital, according to new research from the...
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Two Thirds of Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients Unable to Obtain Oncology...
ASCO Abstract 6128: Appointment access for new cancer patients
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Penn Researchers Identify Genes that Could Better Predict Response to BRAF...
Abstract 8501: Tumor genetic analyses of patients with metastatic melanoma treated with the BRAF inhibitor GSK2118436 (GSK436)
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Women with BRCA Mutations Can Take Hormone-Replacement Therapy Safely After...
ASCO Abstract 1501: Is hormone replacement therapy (HRT) following risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) in BRCA1 (B1)- and BRCA2 (B2)-mutation carriers associated with an increased risk of breast...
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Penn Study Shows Size, Strength of the Heart's Right Side Varies Between Age,...
Researchers at the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have shown that the size and pumping ability of the right side of the heart differs by age, gender and...
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"Wrong"-Time Eating Reduces Fertility in Fruit Flies
Dieticians will tell you it isn't healthy to eat late at night: it's a recipe for weight gain. In fruit flies, at least, there's another consequence: reduced fertility.
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Penn Researchers Help Nanoscale Engineers Choose Self-Assembling Proteins
Bioengineers are using molecules and individual atoms as building blocks to make nanoscale structures inspired by natural viruses.
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Penn Researchers Show New Evidence of Genetic "Arms Race" Against Malaria
For tens of thousands of years, the genomes of malaria parasites and humans have been at war with one another, each involving an attempt to get the upper hand. Scientists have now performed a genetic...
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AcademyHealth Honors Penn Medicine's Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD
Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected for AcademyHealth’s...
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Researchers Identify a New Marker that Predicts Progressive Kidney Failure...
Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected for AcademyHealth’s...
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New Genes for Risk and Progression of Rare Brain Disease Identified in...
There are new genetic clues on risk factors and biological causes of a rare neurodegenerative disease called progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), according to a new study from an international...
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Specialty Physicians Turn Away Two Thirds of Children with Public Insurance,...
Sixty-six percent of publicly-insured children were unable to get a doctor's appointment for medical conditions requiring outpatient specialty care including diabetes and seizures, while children with...
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Next Generation Gene Therapy: Penn Study Demonstrates Potential of New Gene...
Inspired by earlier successes using gene therapy to correct an inherited type of blindness, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, are poised to extend...
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Case of Mistaken Identity: Penn Study Questions Role of A-beta Molecules in...
Increasingly, researchers are suggesting that amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles may be relatively late manifestations in the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology.
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Cancer Genetics Expert Chi Van Dang to Lead Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer...
Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD, a renowned cancer biologist and hematologist-oncologist, has been appointed director of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, effective September 1, 2011.
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