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Maria Molina, CRNP, MSN, Receives Two Awards from International Transplant...
Maria Molina, CRNP, MSN, a board-certified adult gerontology-acute care nurse practitioner and critical-care registered nurse with a Transplant specialty, received the 2015 International Transplant...
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Penn Author Calls for Better Primary Care for Medicaid Patients to Curb...
Health policy researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Institute of Health Policy Studies at the...
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Protein "Comet Tails" Propel Cell Recycling Process, Penn Study Finds
Several well-known neurodegenerative diseases, such as Lou Gehrig’s (ALS), Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Huntington's disease, all result in part from a defect in autophagy – one way a cell removes and...
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Penn Medicine Study Finds Participation in Research Studies Not Detrimental...
Premature babies who are enrolled in clinical trials for therapies to treat and prevent complications from preterm birth are no more likely to die or experience poor outcomes than babies who are not...
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Penn Medicine Awarded Nearly $9 Million in Grants to Improve HIV/TB Care,...
Two Penn Medicine infectious disease teams have received five-year federal grants collectively worth nearly $9 million, the first of which will help train and expand the local health care workforce in...
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Penn Medicine's Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, Receives National Institutes of Health...
Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, a professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, is receiving the 2015 Matilda White...
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Penn Researchers Identify Stem-like Progenitor Cell that Exclusively Forms...
Future therapies for failing hearts are likely to include stem-like cells and associated growth factors that regenerate heart muscle. Scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University...
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Jonathan Epstein, MD, Named Chief Scientific Officer for Penn Medicine
Jonathan Epstein, MD, a highly regarded physician-scientist whose work has played a major role in the understanding and treatment of congenital heart disease, has been named executive vice dean and...
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Penn Researchers' New Tracking Method Yields Insights into Mitochondrial...
Mitochondria, the tiny oxygen reactors that power our cells, can be the keys to health or disease. But while the recognition of their importance has soared in recent years, methods for studying them...
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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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Serious Adverse Events Rare in Healthy Volunteers Participating in Phase I...
Less than 1 percent of 11,000 healthy volunteers who participated in 394 phase I trials for new drugs experienced serious complications, according to a new meta-analysis of participants in non-cancer,...
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Affordable Care Act Results in Dramatic Drop in Out-of-Pocket Prices for...
Average out-of-pocket spending for oral contraceptive pills and the intrauterine device (IUD), the two most common forms of contraception for women, has decreased significantly since the Affordable...
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Penn Medicine Begins Development of New Cherry Hill Practice
Penn Medicine is planning a new, two-story, 150,000 square foot outpatient medical practice on Route 70 East in Cherry Hill, NJ, scheduled to open in Summer 2016.
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Remediating Abandoned, Inner City Buildings Reduces Crime and Violence in...
Fixing up abandoned buildings in the inner city doesn’t just eliminate eyesores, it can also significantly reduce crime and violence, including gun assaults, researchers from the University of...
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Penn's Basser Center for BRCA Names Molecular Scientist David Livingston...
The Basser Center for BRCA at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center has announced the recipient of its third annual Basser Global Prize. The honor will go to molecular cancer expert David Livingston, MD, Emil...
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Penn Medicine Information Services Wins Two Prestigious IS Industry Awards
Penn Medicine’s Information Services team has been recognized by Health and Hospital Networks with two awards, Most Wired and the 2015 Innovator Award.
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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 Investigator Named a 2015 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Jeremy E. Wilusz, PhD, an assistant professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded a grant from the Rita Allen Foundation
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Hydraulic Fracturing Linked to Increases in Hospitalization Rates in the...
Hospitalizations for heart conditions, neurological illness, and other conditions were higher among people who live near unconventional gas and oil drilling (hydraulic fracturing), according to new...
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Vision-Restoring Gene Therapy Also Strengthens Visual Processing Pathways in...
Since 2007, clinical trials using gene therapy have resulted in often-dramatic sight restoration for dozens of children and adults who were otherwise doomed to blindness. Now, researchers from the...
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