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Penn Medicine Valley Forge Offering Patients Advanced PET/CT Scanner
Penn Medicine Valley Forge is now equipped with the most advanced, non-invasive imaging technique—a PET/CT scanner—available to patients today. The technology at Valley Forge will mainly be used in the...
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Daniel J. Rader, MD, Named Chair of the Department of Genetics at Perelman...
Daniel J. Rader, MD, a widely recognized international leader in the human genetics of lipoprotein biology and cardiovascular disease, has been named the new chair of the Department of Genetics in the...
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Sleep Deficits in Young Fruitflies Affects Mating Later in Life
According to a new study published in Science this week from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, lack of sleep in young fruit flies profoundly diminishes...
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New Treatments Tame Hepatitis C Virus, Lessen Side Effects Seen with Other...
Penn Medicine is part of nationwide team of researchers whose recent findings shows promise in curing between 94 and 99 percent of cases of previously untreated and those who failed prior HCV treatment.
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Safer Alternatives to Nonsteroidal Antinflamatory Pain Killers
Building on previous work that showed that deleting an enzyme in the COX-2 pathway in a mouse model of heart disease slowed the development of atherosclerosis, a Penn Medicine team has now extended...
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Reference Pricing for Proton Therapy Will Help Establish Clinical Benefits,...
Penn Medicine researchers have proposed "reference pricing"—a relatively new model that establishes a standard price for different therapies with similar outcomes. It would expand the patient base...
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Sleeping Away Infection: Penn Researchers Find Link between Sleep and Immune...
When we get sick it feels natural to try to hasten our recovery by getting some extra shuteye. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that this...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Uncover Hints of a Novel Mechanism Behind General...
New research led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania investigated the common anesthetic sevoflurane and found that it binds at multiple key cell membrane protein...
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Penn Bioinformatics Profiling Identifies a New Mammalian Clock Gene
Over the last few decades researchers have characterized a set of clock genes that drive daily rhythms of physiology and behavior in all types of species, from flies to humans. Over 15 mammalian clock...
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Three Researchers from Penn Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected as new members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's most...
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Two Commonly Used Medications Equally Effective in Treating Seizures in...
The sedative drugs diazepam (Valium) and lorazepam (Ativan) are equally effective in treating the prolonged seizures known as status epilepticus in children, according to a randomized, controlled study...
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Sorafenib Shows Success in Advanced Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients
The kidney and liver cancer drug sorafenib holds metastatic thyroid cancer at bay for nearly twice as long as a placebo, according to a new study from researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center at the...
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Penn Fruitfly Study Identifies Brain Circuit that Drives Daily Cycles of...
Amita Sehgal, PhD, a professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, describes in Cell a circuit in the brain of fruit flies that controls their daily,...
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Penn Medicine Fellow Receives National Award for Excellence in Interventional...
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Foundation (SCAI) has presented Penn Medicine’s Mitul Kadakia, MD, with the 2014 Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award in...
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Attacking Cancer Indirectly: Penn Researchers Generate Immunity Against Tumor...
A group of researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is employing a novel DNA vaccine to kill cancer, not by attacking tumor...
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Media Toolkit: Penn Medicine at the American Academy of Neurology Annual...
More than 90 Penn Medicine neurologists and researchers will present over 120 studies and abstracts at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014.
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Penn Medicine Neurologists to Receive Honors at American Academy of Neurology...
Two neurologists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have received high honors from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).
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Penn Neurologists Report on Promise of Potential Targets and Interventions...
A trio of studies from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrate new approaches to understanding, treating and potentially staving off Parkinson's disease (PD).
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Media Toolkit: Penn Medicine at the American Congress of Obstetrics and...
Penn Medicine experts will be speaking and presenting on the latest advances in obstetrics and gynecology at the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2014 Annual Clinical Meeting from April...
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Penn Medicine Stroke Experts Identify Geographic, Gender Disparities Among...
Stroke researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will unveil a map demonstrating geographic hotspots of increased stroke mortality across the United States,...
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