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Penn Medicine Residency Program Receives $2.3 Million Grant to Train Next...
The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) Residency Program at the...
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Implementation of Hospital Discharge Centers Could Improve Overall Patient...
Hospitals should consider establishing discharge centers staffed by multi-disciplinary teams to work with families and patients in reducing readmissions, according to an accompanying editorial...
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Penn Medicine Study Shows Survivorship Care Plans Empower Cancer Patients
In 2005, the Institute of Medicine, surveying the outlook for the growing number of American cancer survivors, first described the idea of a survivorship care plan: a roadmap for the group of patients,...
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Should an Adult Hospital Act and Feel More Like a Pediatric Hospital?
An opinion piece in this week’s JAMA from Penn Medicine fourth-year medical student Mark Attiah suggests that if adult hospitals were modeled more closely after children’s hospitals—from the paint...
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A Minor Thing of Major Importance: Penn Study Finds A New Gene Expression...
A rare, small RNA turns a gene-splicing machine into a switch that controls the expression of hundreds of human genes. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of Biochemistry Gideon...
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Researchers Agree that Alzheimer's Test Results Could be Released to Research...
A leading group of Alzheimer's researchers contends that, as biomarkers to detect signals of the disease improve at providing clinically meaningful information, researchers will need guidance on how to...
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Penn Medicine Program Receives Major Grant in the Ethics of Behavioral Health...
The Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care (ScattergoodEthics) – a research program within the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania...
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Obesity/Mortality Paradox Demonstrates Urgent Need for More Refined Metabolic...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania point out that the body mass index (BMI), based on the weight and height, is not an accurate measure of body fat...
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J. Kevin Foskett Named Chair of Physiology at the Perelman School of Medicine...
J. Kevin Foskett, PhD, the Isaac Ott Professor of Physiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the chair of the department of Physiology, effective...
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Comprehensive Parkinson's Biomarker Test Has Prognostic and Diagnostic Value,...
Perelman School of Medicine researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report the first biomarker results reported from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), showing that a...
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Immune System, Skin Microbiome "Complement" One Another, Finds Penn Medicine...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrate for the first time that the immune system influences the skin microbiome. A new study found that the skin...
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Day of the Week Plays no Role in Mortality Risk for Patients with Acute...
Disproving commonly held beliefs, a new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania showed that despite a lower frequency of dialysis on Sunday, patients...
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To Save A Life: Penn Medicine's Basser Research Center for BRCA Brings...
This fall, the University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Research Center for BRCA is taking its lifesaving efforts to raise awareness about hereditary breast and ovarian cancers on the road and into...
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Penn Study: Shutting off Neurons Helps Bullied Mice Overcome Symptoms of...
A new drug target to treat depression and other mood disorders may lie in a group of GABA neurons (gamma-aminobutyric acid –the neurotransmitters which inhibit other cells) shown to contribute to...
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Balancing Act: Cell Senescence, Aging Related to Epigenetic Changes
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found that epigenetic factors play a role in senescence. Epigenetic factors act on the structures in which genes...
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Penn Medicine Gastroenterology Researchers Receive $6.1 Million in Career...
Eleven researchers from the Division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded a total of $6.1 million in grants from the National...
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Penn Medicine Announces Chester County Hospital and Health System as a New...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and the Board of Directors of The Chester County Hospital and Health System (TCCHHS) today announced TCCHHS as a new member of the University of...
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$1.5 Million Gift To Penn Medicine Establishes Associate Professorship In...
A $1.5 million gift to the University of Pennsylvania has established the Barbara and Edward Netter Associate Professorship in Cancer Gene Therapy at the Abramson Cancer Center. Bruce Levine, PhD, a...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Pin Down the Genetics of Going Under
Falling asleep in your bed at night and being “put to sleep” under general anesthesia – as well as waking up in the morning or coming out of anesthesia – aren’t quite the same thing, yet they share...
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Two Penn Students Awarded HHMI International Research Fellowships
Two doctoral students from the University of Pennsylvania, Nam Woo Cho of the Perelman School of Medicine and Maryam Yousefi of the School of Veterinary Medicine, have received International Student...
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