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$4.35 Million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Grant Establishes...
A five-year, $ 4,350,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established a Prevention Research Center (PRC) at the University of Pennsylvania. The PRC, one of 26 in the...
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Penn Medicine Receives Superfund Research Program Award of $10 Million to...
Researchers at the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have been awarded a $10 million grant from the National...
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Penn Medicine at The International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and...
Penn Medicine researchers will be among the featured presenters at the 18th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Stockholm, Sweden, from Sunday, June 8 to Thursday,...
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Lifetime Costs for Autism Spectrum Disorder May Reach 2.4 Million Dollars Per...
Costs for a lifetime of support for each individual with autism spectrum disorder may reach 2.4 million dollars, according to a new study from researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Penn Medicine Physician Honored in the American Society for Clinical...
Anna Moran, MD, clinical assistant professor of Anatomic Pathology, Cytopathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named one of the...
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Penn Study Shows Health Policy Researchers Lack Confidence in Social Media...
Though Twitter boasts 645 million users across the world, only 14 percent of health policy researchers reported using Twitter – and approximately 20 percent used blogs and Facebook – to communicate...
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Weight Loss Critical in Reducing Risk Factors in Obese Patients with...
New research from a multidisciplinary team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania now reveals that the single most important factor for improving cardiovascular health in...
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New Models for Testing Parkinson's Disease Immune-based Drugs
Using powerful, newly developed cell culture and mouse models of sporadic Parkinson’s disease (PD), a team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has...
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Dietary Amino Acids Relieve Sleep Problems after Traumatic Brain Injury in...
A new study suggests a potential dietary treatment - a cocktail of key amino acids that improved sleep disturbances caused by brain injuries in mice - for millions of people affected by traumatic brain...
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Penn Medicine Named as Inaugural Member of NIH Network to Revolutionize...
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will join a new national network of 25 regional stroke centers selected to advance stroke research on prevention, treatment and recovery.
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Penn Anesthesiologists Identify Top Five Practices that Could be Avoided
A team of researchers led by Penn Medicine anesthesiologists have pinpointed the “top five” most common perioperative procedures that are supported by the least amount of clinical evidence, in an...
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Penn Medicine Study Shows "Clot-Busting" Drugs Reduce Deaths from Pulmonary...
Bringing clarity to a decades-long debate, a national team of researchers led by experts from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that adding clot-busting...
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Genomic "Dark Matter" of Embryonic Lungs Controls Proper Development of Airways
Research led by Ed Morrisey, PhD, professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and scientific director of the Penn Institute...
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Penn Study Reveals a Common Genetic Link in Fatal Autoimmune Skin Disease
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania recently found a shared genetic link in the autoimmune response among pemphius vulgaris (PV) patients that provides...
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Diabetes Susceptibility Gene Regulates Health of Cell's Powerhouse, Penn...
A team led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that a susceptibility gene for type 1 diabetes regulates self-destruction of the cell’s energy...
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Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center Celebrates 40 Years, Bestows Inaugural...
Leaders from the ACC, including its director Chi V. Dang, MD, PhD, bestowed Bert Vogelstein, MD, a world-renowned geneticist from The Johns Hopkins University and a University of Pennsylvania alumni,...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Show Regional Anesthesia Reduces Length of Hospital...
Patients who received regional anesthesia during hip fracture surgery had moderately lower mortality and a significantly lower length of stay than those who received general anesthesia, according to...
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Study of Over 450,000 Women Finds 3D Mammography Detects More Invasive...
Reporting in the June 25 issue of JAMA, researchers from Penn Medicine and other institutions found that 3D mammography—known as digital breast tomosynthesis— found significantly more invasive, or...
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Penn Experts Urge Focus on Reducing Preventable Hospital Readmissions,...
Experts from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University suggest that the reporting of hospital readmission rates should be based exclusively on...
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Penn Study Shows Changing Roles of Physicians with MBAs
According to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, physician graduates from the MBA program in heath care management...
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