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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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Zebrafish Model of a Learning and Memory Disorder Shows Better Way to Target...
Using a zebrafish model of a human genetic disease called neurofibromatosis (NF1), a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that the learning and memory...
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Center for Advanced Cellular Therapeutics to Rise on Penn Medicine Campus
The University of Pennsylvania today reached an important milestone in its alliance with Novartis as it unveiled plans for the construction of a first-of-its-kind Center for Advanced Cellular...
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Penn Medicine Bioethicists Call for Greater First-World Response to Ebola...
Amid recent discussion about the Ebola crisis in West Africa, Penn Medicine physicians say that high-income countries like the United States have an obligation to help those affected by the outbreak...
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Media Toolkit: Penn Medicine at the American Society for Radiation Oncology...
Penn Medicine radiation oncologists will present over 20 abstracts at the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO) 56th Annual Meeting at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, September 14 to...
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Penn Medicine Radiation Oncologist Named Among 2014 ASTRO Fellows
Andre A. Konski, MD, MBA, MA FACR, medical director of the department of Radiation Oncology at Chester County Hospital and professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology in the department of Radiation...
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