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Major Gaps in Hepatitis C Care Identified As New Drugs and Screening Efforts...
A new meta-analysis published online in PLOS ONE by infectious disease and epidemiology specialists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania highlights significant gaps in...
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Immune Biomarkers Help Predict Early Death, Complications in HIV Patients...
In a new study published online this week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers under the Botswana-UPenn Partnership at the University of Pennsylvania have identified immune biomarkers in...
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Smartphone Apps Just as Accurate as Wearable Devices for Tracking Physical...
Although wearable devices have received significant attention for their ability to track an individual’s physical activity, most smartphone applications are just as accurate, according to a new...
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Penn Medicine Completes 1,000th Non-Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement Procedure
Penn Medicine physicians have completed their 1,000th transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure, marking an important milestone in the health system’s treatment of aortic stenosis, a...
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Common Biomarkers of Sleep Debt Found in Humans, Rats, Penn Study Finds
In a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Penn Medicine researchers found common molecules signifying perturbed metabolism in response to sleep restriction...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Show Brain Activity Can Predict Increased Fat...
Experts have warned for years that insufficient sleep can lead to weight gain. A new Penn Medicine study found that not only do we consume more food following a night of total sleep deprivation, but we...
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Cancer Patients Rarely Demand Unnecessary Tests and Treatments, According to...
Physicians often blame patient demands for contributing to high medical costs, however, a new study involving more than 5,000 patient-clinician visits indicates that cancer patients rarely push for...
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Penn Orphan Disease Center Announces First Grant Recipients from Million...
The Orphan Disease Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has awarded its inaugural grants funded by proceeds from the 2014 Million Dollar Bike Ride.
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Penn Chief of Orthopaedic Oncology Kristy Weber Elected President of the...
Kristy Weber, MD, chief of Orthopaedic Oncology in the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Sarcoma Program in...
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Penn Researchers Successfully Alleviate Pulmonary Inflammation through...
A multidisciplinary research team led by David Eckmann, MD, PhD, Horatio C. Wood Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and...
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Organizational Culture and Climate Predicts Use of Evidence-based Practices...
Many mental health therapists use treatments that have little evidence to support them. A new multi-institution study led by Penn Medicine has found that an organization’s culture and climate are...
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Penn Medicine Study Describes Development of Personalized Cellular Therapy...
Immune cells engineered to seek out and attack a type of deadly brain cancer were found to be both safe and effective at controlling tumor growth in mice that were treated with these modified cells,...
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Eczema Medication Unlikely to Increase Risk of Cancer in Children, Penn Team...
The topical eczema medicine pimecrolimus appears unlikely to be associated with an increased risk of cancer in children, based on a group of children who were followed for 10 years, according to study...
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Liver Transplant Patients Who Receive Organs from Living Donors More Likely...
Penn Medicine researchers found that living donor transplant outcomes are superior to those found with deceased donors with appropriate donor selection and when surgeries are performed at an...
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Palbociclib Shows Promise in Patients with Hormone-Resistant Breast Cancer,...
Palbociclib, an investigational oral medication that works by blocking molecules responsible for cancer cell growth, is well tolerated and extends progression-free survival (PFS) in newly diagnosed,...
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Penn Medicine Physician Finds No Preventive Benefits for Widely Used Kidney...
Two widely used targeted therapy drugs— approved by the FDA for use in metastatic kidney cancer —are no more effective than a placebo in preventing return of the disease to increase life spans of...
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Strong Connection between Violence and Mental Illness in Guatemala During...
Violence during the civil war in Guatemala from 1960 to 1996 resulted in the development of significant mental health problems and conditions for the county’s people, according to a new...
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Penn Alzheimer's Researchers to Receive J. Allyn Taylor International Prize...
Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD, and John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, co-directors of the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Drug Discovery Program at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are...
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Metabolic Enzyme Stops Progression of Most Common Type of Kidney Cancer
In an analysis of small molecules called metabolites used by the body to make fuel in normal and cancerous cells in human kidney tissue, a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Successful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Youth Leads to Decreased Thinking...
Penn Medicine researchers found that patients who did not respond to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety in childhood had more chronic and enduring patterns of suicidal ideation at 7 to 19...
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