Penn Medicine Announces Naming of Paul F. Harron, Jr. Lung Center
A 10 million dollar gift to the University of Pennsylvania to name the Paul F. Harron, Jr. Lung Center will pay tribute to the late broadcast and cable television pioneer and bolster Penn Medicine’s...
View ArticlePenn Medicine Researcher Receives New Innovator Award from National...
Roberto Bonasio, PhD, an assistant professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a core member of the Penn Epigenetics Program is one...
View ArticlePenn Study Evaluates Medical Resident Assessment Tool to Reduce Unnecessary...
A first-of-its-kind set of questions included in the Internal Medicine In-Training Examination (IM-ITE) illustrates the need to better evaluate resident proficiency in high-value care (HVC), according...
View ArticleNew Gene Therapy for "Bubble Boy" Disease Appears to be Safe, Effective
A new form of gene therapy for boys with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome (SCID-X1), a life-threatening condition also known as “bubble boy” disease, appears to be both effective and...
View ArticlePenn Medicine's Basser Research Center for BRCA Announces $6.9 Million in New...
The University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Research Center for BRCA has announced $6.9 million to research teams both at Penn and at five other institutions across the United States, aimed at advancing...
View ArticleNursing Home Quality Not Tied to Risk of Readmission or Death Following...
Nursing home care quality does not impact the likelihood of patients being readmitted to the hospital or dying within 30 days of discharge from hospital to nursing home, according to a new analysis of...
View ArticlePenn Medicine Celebrates New Paul F. Harron, Jr. Lung Center
Penn Medicine will host a special event to honor the Harron Family for their generous $10 million gift to rename the Penn Lung Center the Paul F. Harron, Jr. Lung Center, in memory of the Chester...
View ArticlePenn Medicine Names Theresa Larivee Executive Director of Pennsylvania Hospital
Theresa Larivee has been named the new Executive Director of Pennsylvania Hospital, effective November 1st.
View ArticlePenn Medicine Hospitals Named "Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality" by Human...
All four hospitals in the University of Pennsylvania Health System, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Chester County...
View ArticleDiversity in Medical Education: It's Not So Black and White Anymore
A perspective piece in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine from a student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine addresses the evolution of diversity in...
View ArticlePersonalized Cellular Therapy Achieves Complete Remission in 90 Percent of...
Ninety percent of children and adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who had relapsed multiple times or failed to respond to standard therapies went into remission after receiving an...
View ArticlePenn Medicine Researchers Zero in on Psoriasis-Hypertension Link
Patients with more severe psoriasis are also more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension, according to new research by a team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania....
View ArticlePenn Medicine Ebola Virus Preparedness
At Penn Medicine, the safety and protection of all patients and staff is our top priority. To date, we have no patients suspected of or confirmed to have the Ebola virus in our facilities.
View ArticlePenn Medicine Receives 1.45 Million Dollars to Speed Research for Rare...
Two Penn Medicine research teams have received a total of 1,450,000 dollars in funding commitments from CurePSP, the Foundation for PSP / CBD and Related Brain Diseases, to study rare neurodegenerative...
View ArticlePenn Researchers Receive National Clinical Research Award for Cardiovascular...
Two researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) are among the 2014 recipients of the prestigious Clinical Research...
View ArticleSee-Through, One-Atom-Thick, Carbon Electrodes are a Powerful Tool for...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine and School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have used graphene -- a two-dimensional form of...
View ArticleDARPA Awards $12 Million to Penn-led Group to Develop Synthetic DNA Vaccines...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded $12.2 million for a collaborative study by scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Inovio...
View ArticlePenn Researchers Untangle the Biological Effects of Blue Light
Blue light can both set the mood and set in motion important biological responses. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and School of Arts and Sciences have teased apart...
View ArticlePenn Multiple Sclerosis Center Named a National Multiple Sclerosis...
Penn Medicine’s Multiple Sclerosis Center has been designated a National MS Comprehensive Care Center by the National MS Society, a nod to its clinical expertise and patient-centered multidisciplinary...
View ArticlePenn Physician and Historian Robert Aronowitz Elected to Institute of Medicine
Robert Aronowitz, MD, a physician and historian at the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, one of the nation's highest honors in the field.
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