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Penn Study: Incisionless Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery...
New research from Penn Medicine shows that incisionless transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) surgery cuts length of hospital stay by 30 percent and has no impact on post-operative vascular...
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Atomic Structure of Key Muscle Component Revealed in Penn Study
Adding to the growing fundamental understanding of the machinery of muscle cells, a group of biophysicists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania describe in the journal...
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Penn Medicine Study Reveals Genetics Impact Risk of Early Menopause Among...
In a study published online in the journal Menopause, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report the first evidence showing that smoking causes earlier...
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Penn Scholars: Hobby Lobby Decision a "Setback … for Women's Health Care"
The recent Hobby Lobby U.S. Supreme Court decision is “a setback for both the ACA’s [Affordable Care Act] foundational goal of access to universal health care and for women’s health care,” say two...
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Competition Seeks Experts in Science and Machine Learning to Predict and...
A team of researchers from Penn and the Mayo Clinic has challenged the best minds in science and “machine learning” to improve devices to treat epilepsy with two competitions to detect and predict...
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Acupuncture Provides Significant Quality of Life Improvements Among Breast...
Use of electroacupuncture (EA) – a form of acupuncture where a small electric current is passed between pairs of acupuncture needles – produces significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and...
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Penn Researchers Find Naltrexone May Be Effective in Diminishing Impulse...
A team of investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center (PADRECC) at the Philadelphia Veterans...
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As the Institute of Medicine Reports on Graduate Medical Education, Penn...
Writing that “our nation’s lack of research in medical education contrasts starkly with the large and essential commitment to biomedical research funded by industry, philanthropic organizations, and...
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Penn Medicine Neuropathologist Receives Doris Duke Grant to Study Brain...
Edward B. Lee, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a three-year Clinical Scientist...
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Penn Researchers Receive 7.3 Million Dollar Grant Renewal from NCI to Study...
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will receive 7.3 million dollars over the next five years from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to find new ways to...
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Penn Medicine and CHOP Study: New Genetic Analysis Confirms Connection...
In a new study, published online in the European Heart Journal, an international team led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital...
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Penn Physiologist Given NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award for...
Erika Holzbaur, PhD, a professor of Physiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Call for More Research on Impact of Sleep...
As efforts to explore outer space move toward missions of unprecedented length -- perhaps up to 500 days, to voyage to Mars -- Penn Medicine researchers are calling for new research to ensure that...
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Penn-led Expert Panel Calls for Public Health Research on Natural Gas Drilling
Groundwater and air quality testing before, during, and after natural gas drilling – which includes hydraulic fracturing -- should be key components of efforts to ensure the safety of communities near...
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Penn's Basser Research Center for BRCA Names BRCA1 Founder Mary-Claire King...
Twenty years after the first identification of the BRCA1 gene, the University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Research Center for BRCA will honor the geneticist credited with its founding with the second...
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Drug-Induced Sleep Apnea is a Safe and Effective Means to Bring About Sleep...
Researchers from Penn Medicine have developed a safe and effective technique for inducing sleep in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea.
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Penn Study Finds Dopamine Replacement Therapy Associated with Increase in...
New Penn Medicine research shows that neuropsychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety and fatigue are more common in newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients compared to the general...
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Sweet Taste Receptors Are Primary Sentinels in Defense against Bacterial...
The body uses mucus as a protective barrier to defend against pathogens, toxins, and allergens in the upper respiratory tract that can lead to such conditions as chronic sinusitis. Aiding in this...
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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Trying to Get them Right the First Time
Penn Medicine researchers caution that the rapid adoption of one or two studies as the basis for clinical practice, even if they are randomized controlled trials, can lead to misinformation and...
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Penn Medicine Opens Center for Advanced Retinal and Ocular Therapeutics (CAROT)
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has launched the Penn Center for Advanced Retinal and Ocular Therapeutics (CAROT) to build on its previous success developing novel...
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