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Spread of Cancer from Pancreas Arises from the Interactions of Multiple Types...
Tumor cells associated with pancreatic cancer often behave like communities by working with each other to increase tumor spread and growth to different organs. Groups of these cancer cells are better...
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Health Care Innovation Isn't About Smart Phone Apps, Penn Medicine...
Health care has much to learn from innovative high-tech companies, but not in the way most people think, according to a Perspective published today in the New England Journal of Medicine and authored...
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Fears Of Potentially Blinding Complication From Avastin Eye Injections Are...
Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug...
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20 Years of White Coat: Doctors-to-be Start Their Journey at Penn's Perelman...
This Friday, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will bestow short white coats on 156 first year medical school students during its annual White Coat Ceremony, the rite of...
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Penn's Edna Foa Awarded American Psychological Association Distinguished...
Renowned post-traumatic stress disorder expert Edna Foa, PhD received the 2015 Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) for her contribution to the...
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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 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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Some Health Insurance Websites Show Improved Efforts to Support Patient...
Websites for national and state health insurance marketplaces show evidence of improved efforts to assist patients in choosing health insurance plans, such as providing decision support tools, experts...
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Targeting HIV in Semen to Shut Down AIDS
There may be two new ways to fight AIDS -- using a heat shock protein or a small molecule – to attack fibrils in semen associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) during the initial phases...
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Penn Medicine Geneticist Receives 2018 Gotto Prize from International...
PHILADELPHIA—Daniel J. Rader, MD, chair of the department of Genetics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a globally recognized expert in the treatment and...
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“Antifreeze” Molecules May Stop and Reverse Damage from Brain Injuries
The key to better treatments for brain injuries and disease may lie in the molecules charged with preventing the clumping of specific proteins associated with cognitive decline and other neurological...
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Police Killings of Unarmed Black Americans Affect Mental Health of Black...
Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts, with even larger disparities among those who are unarmed. The trend is also harming the mental...
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Penn Study Reveals New Therapeutic Target for Slowing the Spread of Flu Virus
Influenza A (flu A) hijacks host proteins for viral RNA splicing and blocking these interactions caused replication of the virus to slow, according to new research published in Nature Communications by...
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University of Pennsylvania Health System CEO Ralph Muller to Step Down in 2019
Consistent with its longstanding leadership succession plan, Ralph W. Muller, the CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), will step down in late June of 2019, University of...
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Proteins Found in Semen Increase the Spread of Ebola Virus Infection
Protein fragments, called amyloid fibrils, in human semen significantly increase Ebola virus infection and protect the virus against harsh environmental conditions such as heat and dehydration.
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Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Earns Commission on Cancer’s Outstanding...
The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) has granted a three-year accreditation and its highest honor, the Outstanding Achievement Award, to the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn...
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Penn Study Reveals Secrets of “Hot” and “Cold” Pancreatic Cancer Tumors
Immune cell makeup of tumors is controlled by factors specific to individual cancer cells
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Brain Stimulation Decreases Intent to Commit Physical, Sexual Assault
Stimulating the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for controlling complex ideas and behaviors, can reduce a person's intention to commit a violent act by more than 50 percent,...
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Rethinking Neurodegenerative Disease Treatment: Target Multiple Pathological...
These so-called “proteinopathies”—misfolded proteins that accumulate and destroy neurons—co-exist in varying degrees across all of the different neurodegenerative disorders and may instigate each other...
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Penn’s Brian Capell, MD, PhD, Wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a core faculty member of the Penn Epigenetics Institute, and a...
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