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Penn Study Shows Longest-lasting Cardiology Guidelines Built on Findings of...
Clinical practice guideline recommendations related to screening and treatment can change markedly over time as new evidence about best practices and clinical outcomes of various treatments emerges. In...
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Media Toolkit: Penn Medicine at SLEEP 2014
Experts from Penn Medicine will be presenting new findings at SLEEP 2014, the 28th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC (APSS), Saturday, May 31 – Wednesday, June 4, 2014,...
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Penn Study Highlights Significant Side Effects Experienced by BRCA Mutation...
The majority of women with cancer causing BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations experience sexual dysfunction, menopausal symptoms, cognitive and stress issues, and poor sleep following prophylactic removal of...
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10 Million Dollar Renewal for Studying the Oldest Branch of the Immune System
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania a five-year, 10 million dollar renewal of a program project to...
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How Misfolded Proteins are Selected for Disposal
Penn researchers have identified a protein recycling pathway in mammalian cells that removes misfolded proteins.
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Penn Medicine Research Reveals Suicides Are Far More Likely to Occur After...
A new study by researchers at Penn Medicine is the first to reveal that suicides are far more likely to occur between midnight and 4 a.m. than during the daytime or evening.
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Penn Medicine Study Finds Marijuana Use May Impair Sleep Quality
A new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that marijuana use may be associated with impaired sleep quality, especially in people who...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Investigate Worry and Behavior Among Teens at...
Teenage girls with a familial or genetic risk for breast cancer worry more about getting the disease, even when their mother has no history, compared to girls their age with no known high risks,...
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Genetics Provide Blueprint for New Heart Disease Therapies, Writes Penn...
Advances in the understanding of the genetics of coronary artery disease, or CAD, will revitalize the field and lead to more therapeutic targets for new medicines to combat this common disease,...
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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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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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