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Increased Radiation Dose Offers No Survival Benefit for Patients with...
Increased radiation dose is associated with higher survival rates in men with medium- and high-risk prostate cancer, but not men with low-risk prostate cancer, according to a new study from Penn...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Receive $2 Million Grant from the American Heart...
Daniel J. Rader, MD, chair of the Department of Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Danish Saleheen, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Biostatistics and...
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Investigational T-cell Receptor Therapy Achieves Encouraging Clinical...
Results from a clinical trial investigating a new T cell receptor (TCR) therapy that uses a person’s own immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells demonstrated a clinical response in 80...
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Penn Medicine's John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, Receives Top Honor for...
John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and director of Penn’s Institute on Aging, has been...
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Penn Medicine Hospitals Named Among Top Ten in the Nation and #1 in...
Penn Medicine hospitals have been ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the nation, #1 in Pennsylvania, and once again #1 in the Philadelphia metro area by U.S. News & World Report.
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Penn Authors Urge Transplantation of Hepatitis C-Infected Kidneys in Some...
A new perspective paper written by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that “new antiviral...
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Penn Study Finds Link between Physician Training and Brand Name Prescribing
Physicians in training are twice as likely to order a costly brand-name statin (used to lower blood cholesterol levels) when supervised by senior physicians who prefer those medications in their own...
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Penn Scientists Find That Flow Means "Go" for Proper Lymph System Development
The lymphatic system provides a slow flow of fluid from our organs and tissues into the bloodstream. It returns fluid and proteins that leak from blood vessels, provides passage for immune and...
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James Metz Named Chair of Penn Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology
James Metz, MD, has been named the chair of the department of Radiation Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Lancaster General Health to Join University of Pennsylvania Health System...
Effective Aug. 1, Lancaster General Health (LG Health) will become a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine).
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Sleepy Fruitflies Get Mellow: Sleep Deprivation Reduces Aggression, Mating...
A team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania used fruitflies to probe deeper into the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern aggression and sleep.
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Penn Bioethicists Call for End to "Pay-to-Play" Clinical Research
Charging people to participate in research studies is likely to undermine the fundamental ethical basis of clinical research, according to a new paper written by bioethicists, including lead author...
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Cell Aging Slowed by Putting Brakes on Noisy Transcription
Working with yeast and worms, researchers found that incorrect gene expression is a hallmark of aged cells and that reducing such "noise" extends lifespan in these organisms.
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Penn Study Questions Presence in Blood of Heart-Healthy Molecules from Fish...
Now, a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, published online this month ahead of the print issue in the Journal of Lipid Research, questions the relevance...
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Penn Medicine-led Project Approved for $1.4 Million PCORI Grant to Continue...
A large-scale, clinical research project on vasculitis, led by Peter A. Merkel, MD, MPH, a professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and chief of the division of Rheumatology at the Perelman School of...
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Penn Medicine Scientist Receives 2015 Henry M. Stratton Medal Recognizing...
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) has awarded Nancy Speck, PhD, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the 2015 Henry...
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Penn Study Details Powerful Molecular Promoter of Colon Cancers
Cancer researchers already know of some oncogenes and other factors that promote the development of colon cancers, but they don’t yet have the full picture of how these cancers originate and spread....
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Penn Medicine Researcher Receives High Impact Neuroscience Resource Center...
Sergei A. Vinogradov, PhD, an associate professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded a four-year High Impact...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Recognized by American Statistical Association
Two Penn Medicine researchers from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB) have been honored with the 2015 Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical...
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Penn Study Finds Important Gaps in Evidence for Best Methods for Cleaning...
Tray tables, bed rails, light switches, and toilets: All are common vectors for swapping germs between patients and health care workers. While a new systematic overview in this week’s Annals of...
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