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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 Study Points to New Therapeutic Strategy in Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects at least one in four Americans who are older than 60 and can significantly shorten lifespan. Yet the few available drugs for CKD can only modestly delay the...
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Four Penn Faculty Named to 2014 Class of AAAS Fellows
Four faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Three are from the Perelman School of Medicine and...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Named Winners of 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge
Three Philadelphia researchers -- Donna George, PhD, and Julia Leu, PhD, both from the Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Maureen Murphy, PhD...
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Brain Activity after Smokers Quit Predicts Chances of Relapsing, Penn...
Reporting in a new study published this week in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, James Loughead, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry, and Caryn Lerman, PhD, a professor of Psychiatry and...
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Science-Fair Switcheroo, Where Kids Judge the Science
Over 100 third and fourth graders from the Cornerstone Christian Academy, K.W. Reed Christian Academy for Boys, and Beulah Baptist Christian Day School will spend a morning on the University of...
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Ebola Virus Preparations at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Preparations for the possibility of caring for a patient with Ebola have been underway for several months at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP).
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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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People with Mental Illness More Likely To Be Tested for HIV, Penn Medicine...
People with mental illness are more likely to have been tested for HIV than those without mental illness, according to a new study from a team of researchers at Penn Medicine and the U.S. Centers for...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Announce Latest Results of Investigational Cellular...
The latest results of clinical trials of more than 125 patients testing an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL019 were presented by a University of Pennsylvania research team at...
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Simeprevir-Based Therapy Offers Patients in Developing Countries a...
Researchers at Penn Medicine, in collaboration with a multi-center international team, have shown that a protease inhibitor, simeprevir, a once a day pill, along with interferon and ribavirin has...
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Penn Medicine Study: No Increase in Patient Deaths or Hospital Readmissions...
In the first year after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) reduced the number of continuous hours that residents can work, there was no change in the rate of death or...
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Penn Study: Majority of Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer in U.S. Receive...
Two-thirds of women treated for early-stage breast cancer in the U.S. receive longer radiation therapy than necessary, according to a new study published in JAMA this week from Penn Medicine...
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Penn Medicine Physician Awarded Top Honor by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the...
Robert K. Cato, MD, chief of the division of General Internal Medicine at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, has received the Pressman Award for Distinguished Service to Internal Medicine from the...
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Penn Researchers Tame the Inflammatory Response in Kidney Dialysis
New work by Penn researchers has found an effective way to avoid systemic kidney inlammation from frequent dialysis by temporarily suppressing complement during dialysis. Their work appears online in...
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Penn Medicine Study: U.S. Workers Sacrifice Sleep for Work Hours and Long...
Research from the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine published in the December issue of the journal Sleep identifies characteristics and behaviors associated with short sleep that...
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Clinical Trials Designed to Block Autophagy in Multiple Cancers Show Promise
In the largest group of results to date, researchers from Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center and other institutions have shown in clinical trials that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)...
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