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Genomes of Ape Parasites Reveal Origin and Evolution of Leading Cause of...
The genome sequences of ape parasites related to Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax), the main source of mosquito-borne malaria outside Africa, provide insights on the origin and early evolution of the human...
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Candidate for Universal Flu Vaccine Protects Against Multiple Strains in...
The candidate vaccine, described in Nature Communications this week, elicited a strong antibody response to a structure on the surface of flu viruses, called the hemagglutinin (HA) stalk. It protected...
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Access to Care Doesn’t Ensure Better Outcomes for Black and Hispanic Kidney...
Although black and Hispanic veterans with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are more likely than white patients to see a kidney specialist—a nephrologist—they are more likely to suffer disease progression...
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CAR T Cell Therapy Receives Approval for Use Across European Union
The European Commission (EC) has approved a personalized cellular therapy developed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center, making it the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T...
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Additional Inhibitor Can Help Anti-VEGF Therapy Overcome Resistance in Deadly...
Adding another inhibitor to therapies that cut off a tumor’s access to blood vessels could be the key to helping those therapies overcome resistance in glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.
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Physicians Deserve Answers as Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Hangs...
The fate of the program hangs in the balance, as government officials signal a desire to end it, leaving physicians in a lingering uncertainty that’s unnecessary and unfair, health policy experts from...
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Stigmatizing Views and Myths about Psoriasis Are Pervasive in the United States
The stigma associated with the autoimmune disease psoriasis may lead people to avoid patients who show signs of the condition, including not wanting to date, shake hands, or have people in their homes...
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Three Penn Medicine Gene Therapy Innovators Receive International Award for...
This year’s award honors seven researchers who share a 1 million Euro prize for scientific advances leading to successful treatment of a condition known as Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA)—a genetic...
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Penn Extends its Global Reach to Improve Health Care Education and Quality of...
Penn Medicine and Penn Nursing have launched a formal alliance with the Vingroup – an enterprise that encompasses a newly formed private not-for-profit university project, VinUni, as well as the...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Receive “Big Data” Grant from NIH to Test New...
Despina Kontos, PhD, an associate professor of Radiology, and Lewis A. Chodosh, MD, PhD, chair of Cancer Biology and associate director of the Abramson Cancer Center, both in the Perelman School of...
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Flu Vaccination Rates in Clinics Drop as Day Progresses, but Computerized...
Primary care clinics experienced a significant decline in influenza vaccinations as the day progressed, researchers from Penn Medicine report in a new study published in JAMA Open Network.
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L. Scott Levin to Serve as President of American Society for the Surgery of...
Penn Medicine’s L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery, chairman of the department of Orthopedic Surgery, and a professor of Plastic Surgery, has been...
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Penn Medicine, Grand View Health Announce Alliance
The University of Pennsylvania Health System and Grand View Health have announced a new alliance focused on the development of joint clinical care programs to improve health care for people in Bucks...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Receive $18 Million Grant for the Tobacco Center of...
A new $18 million grant to Penn Medicine researchers will allow them to take aim at the effects of tobacco marketing.
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DNA Vaccine Leads to Immune Responses in HPV-Related Head and Neck Cancer
A therapeutic vaccine can boost antibodies and T cells, helping them infiltrate tumors and fight off human papillomavirus (HPV)-related head and neck cancer. Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center...
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Prosthetic Valve Mismatches Common in Transcatheter Valve Replacement...
In largest study to date, severe cases of prosthesis-patient mismatch were associated with higher risk of death and hospital readmissions
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Being Older Helps Skin Heal with Less Scarring, and Now Researchers Know Why
A compound secreted in the bloodstream could be the key factor that causes wounds in older people to heal with less scarring than in younger people. The compound is called stromal cell-derived-factor-1...
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Medicaid Expansions Linked to Slower Rises in Overdose Deaths
The United States in recent years has increased healthcare access by broadening Medicaid coverage, but some worry that these Medicaid expansions lead to more abuse of prescription painkillers and thus...
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Penn Center for Precision Medicine Awards Nearly $600,000 in Third Round of...
The Penn Center for Precision Medicine Accelerator Fund is providing close to $600,000 in funding to eight research teams from Penn Medicine to implement personalized medicine projects along a range of...
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How Can We Reduce Concussions in Football? Change Kickoffs, Experts Say
How best to reduce concussions and other brain injuries that occur in American football continues to perplex scientists, coaches, and fans at all levels of the sport, but a new study published today in...
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