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200,000 Patients Treated for Cardiac Arrest Annually in U.S. Hospitals, Penn...
More than 200,000 people are treated for cardiac arrest in United States hospitals each year, a rate that may be on the rise. The findings are reported online this week in Critical Care Medicine in a...
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A War Inside: Saving Veterans from Suicide
An estimated 18 American military veterans take their own lives every day -- thousands each year -- and those numbers are steadily increasing.
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Penn Assistant Professor Receives $500,000 Grant from Rita Allen Foundation
Rahul M. Kohli, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and Biochemistry & Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a $500,000 grant from the...
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Penn Study Shows the "Rule of Rescue" Often Prevails in Critical Care Units
High stakes life and death decisions are made every day by doctors and nurses in critical care units, but increasingly critical care clinicians are also tasked with containing costs and managing scarce...
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A Change of Heart: Penn Researchers Reprogram Brain Cells to Become Heart Cells
For the past decade, researchers have tried to reprogram the identity of all kinds of cell types.
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Penn's Environmental Toxicology Center Part of Group to Analyze Seafood...
Penn's Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), is part of a consortium that has been awarded $7.85 million from National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to...
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Jill Baren, MD, Named Chair of Penn Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine
Jill M. Baren, MD, has been named chair of the department of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1, 2011.
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Penn Study Shows Link Between Immune System Suppression and Blood Vessel...
Targeted therapies that are designed to suppress the formation of new blood vessels in tumors, such as Avastin (bevacizumab), have slowed cancer growth in some patients. However, they have not produced...
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Pair of Penn Medicine Studies Featured in Archives of Neurology
Two Penn Medicine studies were released this week by the Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Penn Study Finds a Genetic Basis for Muscle Endurance in Animal Study
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a gene for endurance, or more precisely, a negative regulator of it.
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A Single Traumatic Brain Injury May Prompt Long-Term Neurodegeneration, Penn...
Years after a single traumatic brain injury (TBI), survivors still show changes in their brains.
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Named as One of the Nation's Top...
For the fourth consecutive year, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) has been ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
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Penn Receives $10 Million to Create Center for Orphan Disease Research and...
The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania announces the launching of a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary center focused on discovering novel treatments for...
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Social Media Poised To Drive Disaster Preparedness and Response
Social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare may be an important key to improving the public health system's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, according to a...
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Penn Study Identifies Risk Factors for Sudden Cardiac Death in...
A new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania indicates that post-menopausal women with coronary artery disease and other risk factors are at an increased risk for...
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Substance P Amplifies Extraskeletal Bone Growth, Suggesting New Therapeutic...
Research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows that a brain chemical (or neurotransmitter) called...
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Penn Ranks First in Clinical and Translational Science Award Renewal from...
The Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania received a $55 million renewal from the NIH in recognition for...
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Penn Study Finds More Effective Approach Against "Achilles' Heel" of Ovarian...
In a recent issue of Cancer Research, Daniel J. Powell, Jr., PhD, a research assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at...
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Penn Researchers Describe Key Molecule That Keeps Immune Cell Development on...
In the latest issue of Nature, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania clarify the role of two proteins key to T-cell development.
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Penn Study on Silencing of Tumor Suppressor Gene Suggests New Target for...
Mariusz A. Wasik, MD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Qian Zhang, MD, PhD, research assistant professor, both from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,...
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