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Penn Medicine and March of Dimes Launch New $10 Million Prematurity Research...
In recognition of World Prematurity Day, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the March of Dimes Foundation today announce the establishment of a new Prematurity...
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No Racial Disparities Observed in Development of Atrial Fibrillation Among...
Black patients who have been diagnosed with heart failure are no less likely than white patients to get atrial fibrillation (an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia), according to a new study led by...
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Penn Study Examines Patients' Perspectives on Deactivation of Implantable...
A new study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which was presented today at the 2014 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association,...
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Physicians Prescribe Less Brand Name Drugs When Electronic Health Record...
Programming electronic health records to make generic drugs the default choice when physicians write prescriptions may offer one way to reduce unnecessary spending and improve health care value in the...
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Penn Study Shows Bed Bugs Can Transmit Parasite that Causes Chagas Disease
The bed bug may be just as dangerous as its sinister cousin, the triatomine, or “kissing” bug. A new study from Penn Medicine researchers in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics...
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Penn Researchers Unwind the Mysteries of the Cellular Clock
In the current issue of the journal Cell, Mitchell Lazar, MD PhD, the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism and his team report the...
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Penn's Aaron T. Beck, MD, Receives Honorary Degree from Australia's La Trobe...
Aaron T. Beck, MD, emeritus professor in the department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of Penn's Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology...
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Invitation to Cover: Providing a Place to Give Thanks
Since 1994, the Hall-Mercer Community Behavioral Health Center of Pennsylvania Hospital has hosted a Thanksgiving meal. This free event is open to members of the surrounding community, the homeless,...
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Penn Researchers Identify Protein Elevated in Blood That Predicts...
New Penn Medicine research has found that elevated levels in the blood of the brain-enriched protein calpain-cleaved αII-spectrin N-terminal fragment, known as SNTF, shortly after sports-related...
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Penn Medicine Team Develops Cognitive Test Battery to Assess the Impact of...
Penn Medicine researchers have developed a cognitive test battery, known as Cognition, for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) to measure the impact of typical spaceflight...
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Penn Yeast Study Identifies Novel Longevity Pathway
Ancient philosophers looked to alchemy for clues to life everlasting. Today, researchers look to their yeast. These single-celled microbes have long served as model systems for the puzzle that is the...
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New Combination Therapy Shows More Groundbreaking Results for Hepatitis C...
In continuing research reporting groundbreaking results in the treatment of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), Penn Medicine and an international team of researchers showed a new combination drug therapy is...
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Penn Researchers Show Human Learning Altered by Electrical Stimulation of...
Stimulation of a certain population of neurons within the brain can alter the learning process, according to a team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Breastfeeding, Birth Control Pills May Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk Among Women...
Breastfeeding, tubal ligation – also known as having one’s “tubes tied” – and oral contraceptives may lower the risk of ovarian cancer for some women with BRCA gene mutations, according to a...
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Can Anti-Depressants Help Prevent Alzheimer's Disease?
A University of Pennsylvania researcher has discovered that the common selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) citalopram arrested the growth of amyloid beta, a peptide in the brain that clusters...
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Cancer Patient Demands Rarely Lead to Unnecessary Tests and Treatments
Despite claims suggesting otherwise, inappropriate cancer patient demands are few and very rarely lead to unnecessary tests and treatments from their health care providers, according to new results...
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Large Panel Genetic Testing Produces More Questions than Answers in Breast...
While large genetic testing panels promise to uncover clues about patients’ DNA, a team of researchers from Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) has found that those powerful tests tend to...
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"Bystander" Chronic Infections Thwart Development of Immune Cell Memory, Penn...
A team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that chronic bystander viral or parasitic infections – which are models for human infections like hepatitis, malaria,...
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Media Toolkit: Penn Medicine at the 2014 American Thoracic Society...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are on standby to comment on everything from sepsis to COPD and more at the 2014 American Thoracic Society...
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2014 Perelman School of Medicine Graduation: Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
This year, the graduating class of the Perelman School of Medicine has again distinguished itself from many of its peers around the country—with more than half of the 171 students obtaining dual...
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