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Penn Medicine Information Services Ranks in Top 10 of InformationWeek's Elite...
Penn Medicine’s Information Services team has been ranked among the top 10 of all entries and first among health care entrants in this year’s InformationWeek Elite 100, an annual list of the best...
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New Gene Therapy for "Bubble Boy" Disease Appears to be Safe, Effective
A new form of gene therapy for boys with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome (SCID-X1), a life-threatening condition also known as “bubble boy” disease, appears to be both effective and...
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Penn Medicine at the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology Annual...
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania clinicians and researchers will be presenting compelling talks and study results on emerging issues in the field of Obstetrics and...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Receive 7.5 Million Dollars to Expand HIV Gene...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) have been awarded 7.5 million dollars over five years from the National Institutes of Health to initiate a...
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Off-Label Use of Device to Prevent Stroke in A-Fib Patients is Prevalent and...
The Lariat device, which has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for soft tissue approximation (placement of a suture) during surgical procedures, is associated with a...
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Penn Study Indicates that Gene Therapy Efficacy for LCA is Dynamic:...
Gene therapy for Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), an inherited disorder that causes loss of night- and day-vision starting in childhood, improved patients’ eyesight within weeks of treatment in a...
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Plant Toxin Causes Biliary Atresia in Animal Model, According to Penn Study
A study in this week’s Science Translational Medicine is a classic example of how seemingly unlikely collaborators can come together to make surprising discoveries. An international team of...
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Female Cystic Fibrosis Patients Need More Contraceptive Guidance, Penn...
Only half of women with cystic fibrosis (CF) report using contraception and frequently apt to become pregnant unintentionally, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of...
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Penn Medicine Study Reveals Why Almost Half of At-Risk Patients Opt Out of...
Some at-risk patients opted out of comprehensive cancer gene screening when presented with the opportunity to be tested for the presence of genes linked to various cancers, according to a recent study...
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Penn Team Finds Protein "Cement" that Stabilizes the Crossroad of Chromosomes
A new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania published in Science this week describes how the centromere is stabilized during replication.
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Most Women are Unaware of New Guidelines for Pap Test Frequency, Penn...
Women know that Pap tests are a useful screening test for cervical cancer, but according to a new study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, most of...
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Two Penn Medicine Physicians Receive American Society for Gastrointestinal...
Two physicians in the division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will be presented Crystal Awards by the American Society for Gastrointestinal...
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Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center at the American Society of Clinical...
Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania will be presenting data on the latest advances in cancer research and treatment at the American Society of Clinical...
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Penn Study Finds that Various Financial Incentives Help Smokers Quit
Four different financial incentive programs, each worth roughly 800 dollars over six months, all help more smokers kick the habit than providing free access to behavioral counseling and nicotine...
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Giving HOPE: U.S. Has Nearly 400 HIV-Positive Potential Organ Donors, Penn...
In the first-of-its-kind study since the passage of the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act (the HOPE Act), which lifted the ban on organ donations from one HIV-positive person to another, Penn Medicine...
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Penn Medicine's Howard Herrmann, MD Receives Top Designation from Society for...
Howard Herrmann, MD, a professor of Medicine and Surgery, and director of the Interventional Cardiology Program and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Perelman School of Medicine Cuts Ribbon to Unveil New Henry A. Jordan Medical...
On Friday, alumni, donors, students, faculty, and leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and the Perelman School of Medicine will gather at the Henry A. Jordan M’62 Medical Education Center for...
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Penn Women's Behavioral Health Physician Graduates from Prestigious Women in...
C. Neill Epperson, MD, professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral...
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Penn Study Finds Cell Division Sign Posts for Chromosomes Along Microtubule...
A system within cells that guides how chromosomes move during cell division was discovered by researchers led by co-senior authors Ekaterina Grishchuk, PhD, an assistant professor of Physiology at the...
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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 from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this month for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare, life-threatening...
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