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Penn Medicine Researchers Discover Possible New General Anesthetics
Penn Medicine researchers, in a continuation of their groundbreaking work to better understand how anesthesia works in the body, have found the first new class of novel anesthetics since the 1970s.
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Penn Medicine Bioethicists Call for Return to Asylums for Long-Term...
A new viewpoint in JAMA,written by Dominic Sisti, PhD, Andrea Segal, MS, and Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, of the department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Mutated ATRX Gene Linked to Brain and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors is...
A somatic mutation in the ATRX gene has recently been shown as a potential molecular marker for aggressive brain tumors, such as gliomas, neuroblastomas and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Now, for...
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Penn Medicine Selected for Digital 25 Award by IDG Enterprise Media
Penn Medicine received a 2015 Digital Edge 25 Award, produced by IDG Enterprise media brands CIO and Computerworld and the CIO Executive Council. One of 25 recipients nationwide, Penn Medicine is the...
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Penn Medicine Opens Pavilion for Advanced Care, Integrating Critical Care...
This month, Penn Medicine's new 144 million-dollar facility, the Pavilion for Advanced Care (PAC) at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC), opened the doors to its first patients. Clinical teams from...
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Medicaid "Fee Bump" to Primary Care Doctors Associated with Better Access to...
The increase in Medicaid reimbursement for primary care providers, a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was associated with a 7.7 percentage points increase in new patient appointment...
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Penn Study Uncovers Secrets of a Clump-Dissolving Protein
Penn Medicine researchers have discovered that a previously disregarded part of the Hsp104 structure, the N-terminal domain (NTD), located at one end of the Hsp104 molecule, is a major player in its...
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Study of Over 450,000 Women Finds 3D Mammography Detects More Invasive...
Reporting in the June 25 issue of JAMA, researchers from Penn Medicine and other institutions found that 3D mammography—known as digital breast tomosynthesis— found significantly more invasive, or...
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Study Reveals Possible Therapeutic Target for Common, But Mysterious Brain...
Tens of millions of people around the world have abnormal, leak-prone sproutings of blood vessels in the brain called cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs). These abnormal growths can lead to...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Show Regional Anesthesia Reduces Length of Hospital...
Patients who received regional anesthesia during hip fracture surgery had moderately lower mortality and a significantly lower length of stay than those who received general anesthesia, according to...
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Penn Medicine Study Shows Menopause Does Not Increase or Create Difficulty...
Women in their late thirties and forties who have trouble sleeping are more than three times more likely to suffer sleep problems during menopause than women who have an easier time getting shut-eye,...
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Teaching Doctors in the New Millennium: Penn's Perelman School of Medicine...
With the opening of the Henry A. Jordan M’62 Medical Education Center, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has expanded its urban campus with an innovative new facility...
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Penn Study Shows Changing Roles of Physicians with MBAs
According to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, physician graduates from the MBA program in heath care management...
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Penn Immunologist to Co-direct 12 Million Dollar Grant to Study Hepatitis
John Wherry, PhD, an associate professor of Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) are co-directing...
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AHRQ Redesignates ECRI Institute-Penn Medicine as Evidence-based Practice Center
The ECRI Institute-Penn Medicine Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) was recently redesignated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to serve as an EPC through 2019.
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Penn Researchers Show Value of Tissue-Engineering to Repair Major Peripheral...
Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is a common consequence of traumatic injuries, wounds caused by an external force or an act of violence, such as a car accident, gun shot or even surgery. In those...
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Penn Medicine Nurses Selected to American Academy of Nursing's Fellows
Six Penn nurses have been selected as fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).
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Penn Medicine Encourages Women to Love Themselves with a Free Mammogram this...
The ongoing debate about when to get a mammogram and the potential financial cost may hold some women back from getting a life-saving breast cancer screening. This Valentine’s Day, Penn Medicine, The...
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Penn Medicine's New Immunotherapy Study Will Pit PD-1 Inhibitor Against...
Penn Medicine researchers have begun a new immunotherapy trial with the “checkpoint inhibitor” known as pembrolizumab in patients with oligometastatic lung cancer—a state characterized by a few...
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Sharp, Sustained Increases in Suicides Closely Shadowed Austerity Events in...
Sharp and significant increases in suicides followed select financial crisis events and austerity announcements in Greece, from the start of the country’s 2008 recession to steep spending cuts in 2012,...
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