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Pennsylvania Hospital Opens Philadelphia's First All-Private Maternity Suite...
After three years of renovations and new construction, Pennsylvania Hospital of Penn Medicine will unveil its new Well Mother and Baby Unit on February 26. The hospital, where nearly 5,000 babies are...
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Penn Medicine and Wistar Scientists Create Precise Tumor Classifier for...
A newly developed, more specific approach to classifying tumors by molecular type can help cancer researchers to determine tumor characteristics and guide treatment strategies.
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Trauma Patients' Insurance Status May Influence Hospital Transfer Decisions
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that patients with severe injuries initially evaluated at...
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Penn Study in Fruitflies Strengthens Connection Among Protein Misfolding,...
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, have been studying the molecular mechanisms underpinning sleep. Now they report that the pathways of aging and sleep...
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Kevin Volpp and Steven Joffe Named Vice Chairs of Penn Medicine's Department...
Steven Joffe, MD, MPH, and Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, have been named Vice Chair of Medical Ethics and Vice Chair of Health Policy, respectively, in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the...
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The Parasite that Escaped Out of Africa
An international team of scientists has traced the origin of Plasmodium vivax, the second-worst malaria parasite of humans, to Africa, according to a study published this week in Nature Communications....
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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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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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Penn Study: Blocking Autophagy with Malaria Drug May Help Overcome Resistance...
Half of melanoma patients with the BRAF mutation have a positive response to treatment with BRAF inhibitors, but nearly all of those patients develop resistance to the drugs and experience disease...
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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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Penn Medicine Researchers Ask If A Story Help Doctors Curb the Prescription...
In the fight against a nationwide prescription opioid abuse epidemic, Penn Medicine researchers are using storytelling to help doctors recall important, potentially lifesaving national guidelines on...
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Penn Study Shows Way to Make Treatment of Rare Blood Disorder More Affordable...
A University of Pennsylvania research team has defined a possible new way to fight a disease that is currently treatable only with the most expensive drug available for sale in the United States.
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Penn Medicine Teams Up with the City of Philadelphia to Offer Heart Health...
Penn Medicine will join forces with the City of Philadelphia to wrap-up American Heart Month on Friday, February 28th by offering free cardiovascular screenings for city employees.
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Penn Study Results Confirm BMI is a Direct Cause of Type 2 Diabetes and High...
Using new genetic evidence, an international team of scientists led by experts at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has found...
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2014 Continence Care Champion Award Presented to Penn Medicine's Alan J....
Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD(hon.), has received the 2014 Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award from the The National Association For Continence (NAFC).
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Personalized Gene Therapy Locks Out HIV, Paving the Way to Control Virus...
University of Pennsylvania researchers have successfully genetically engineered the immune cells of 12 HIV positive patients to resist infection, and decreased the viral loads of some patients taken...
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3.25 Million Dollar Gift Creates Penn Medicine/CHOP Friedreich's Ataxia...
Three longtime allies have joined forces to create the new Penn Medicine/CHOP Friedreich's Ataxia Center of Excellence.
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Three Penn hospitals Receive Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Silver Plus...
Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and Chester County Hospital have received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Silver Plus...
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Penn Researchers Model a Key Breaking Point Involved in Traumatic Brain Injury
Even the mildest form of a traumatic brain injury, better known as a concussion, can deal permanent, irreparable damage. Now, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania...
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Penn Medicine's Basser Research Center for BRCA Unveils Homologous Hope...
On Wednesday, the University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Research Center for BRCA will host a special event to formally unveil “Homologous Hope,” a new sculpture to be featured in the Perelman Center for...
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