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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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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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Penn Medicine Nurse Selected as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive...
Kate FitzPatrick, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, NEA-BC, clinical director for the Women’s Health/Neonatal Nursing and Neuroscience Nursing divisions and interim director for the department of Advanced Practice at...
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Penn Study: Electronic Alerts Significantly Reduce Catheter-Associated...
A Penn Medicine team has found that targeted automated alerts in electronic health records significantly reduce urinary tract infections in hospital patients with urinary catheters. In addition, when...
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Penn Study Shows 25 Percent Fewer Opioid-Related Deaths in States Allowing...
A new multi-institutional study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine and led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, examined the rate of deaths caused by...
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Attacking a Rare Disease at its Source With Gene Therapy
Using an animal model, a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has proven the efficacy of a more elegant way to restore IDUA levels in the body through direct gene...
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Drug for Rare Blood Disorder Developed at Penn Receives Orphan Drug Status...
A Penn Medicine-developed drug has received orphan status in Europe this week for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare, life-threatening disease that causes anemia due to...
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Perelman School of Medicine Student Named Pisacano Scholar
Nicholas Kenji Taylor, a fourth year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named a 2014 Pisacano Scholar by the Pisacano Leadership Foundation,...
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Penn Study Shows Better Outcomes for Sepsis Patients Treated in Hospitals...
New research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows a clear relationship between hospitals that treat the most cases of severe sepsis and lower rates of inpatient...
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Penn Team Finds Ovarian Cancer Oncogene in "Junk DNA"
A team led by Lin Zhang, PhD, research associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has mined junk DNA...
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Penn Researcher and CVS Health Physician Urge New Payment Model for Costly...
Hoping to encourage sufficient investments by pharmaceutical companies in expensive gene therapies, which often consist of a single treatment, a Penn researcher and the chief medical officer of CVS...
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Media Toolkit: Penn Medicine University City Grand Opening
The dedication of Penn Medicine University City marks the grand opening of Penn Medicine’s newest outpatient facility that’s taking health care delivery to new levels by focusing on the patient...
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Penn Medicine University City Raises the Bar on Patient Engagement and...
A grand opening celebration for Penn Medicine University City on Friday will shine a spotlight on the latest advances in patient experience and engagement in the new West Philadelphia outpatient...
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Penn Medicine University City Unveiled: Market Street Tower is Primed to...
The dedication of Penn Medicine University City on September 12 will mark the grand opening of Penn Medicine’s newest outpatient facility, which showcases a new model for patient experience and...
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Penn Medicine Study Reveals Profile of Patients Most Likely to Delay Hospice...
One in six cancer patients enroll in hospice only during their last three days of life, according to a new study from a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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