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Penn Scientist Receives Senior Scholar Award from Ellison Medical Foundation...
James Eberwine, PhD, professor of Pharmacology, at the Perleman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a Senior Scholar Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation. This...
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Penn Medicine Offers Area's Only Online Patient-Accessible Health Record
Penn Medicine has launched myPennMedicine, the Philadelphia region's only online patient-accessible health record.
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Penn Receives $16 Million Gift to Launch New Initiative Focusing on the...
The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania announces the establishment of the Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative. This new initiative, funded by an anonymous...
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Penn Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology Receives Prestigious 2011 Award from...
Eydie Miller-Ellis, MD, professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and director of the Glaucoma Division at Scheie Eye Institute, was recently presented with the Women in Ophthalmology's Suzanne Veronneau...
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Penn Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology Receives Prestigious 2011 Award from...
Eydie Miller-Ellis, MD, professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and director of the Glaucoma Division at Scheie Eye Institute, was recently presented with the Women in Ophthalmology's Suzanne Veronneau...
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Size Matters: Measuring Brain Thickness Identifies Those at High Risk for...
A new measurement tool can identify cognitively normal adults who are at high risk for cognitive decline, according to a new study by collaborators at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University...
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ADHD Drug Helps Menopausal Women with Focus, Memory Deficits, Penn Study Shows
At menopause, many women begin to notice a decline in their attention, organization, and short-term memory. These cognitive symptoms can lead to professional and personal challenges and unwarranted...
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University of Pennsylvania Dermatologist Receives $40,000 Grant from National...
Junko Takeshita, M.D, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow and instructor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, received a one-year, $40,000 fellowship grant from...
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Penn Medicine Cancer Research and Experts at ASCO
Resources for Media Covering the American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting June 3-7, 2011
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The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Receives American Heart...
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) has received the Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.
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Gatekeepers: Penn Study Discovers How Microbes Make it Past Tight Spaces...
There are ten microbial cells for every one human cell in the body, and microbiology dogma holds that there is a tight barrier protecting the inside of the body from outside invaders, in this case...
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
In the nearly four decades since the performance of the first human heart transplant in 1967, heart transplantation has changed from an experimental operation to an established treatment for advanced...
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New method to replicate immunity-boosting cells to benefit transplant...
Penn scientists collaborating with researchers at the University of Minnesota describe in Science Translational Medicine how immune cells engineered at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University...
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Penn Medicine Researcher Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Study Role of...
Jun Mao, MD, MSCE assistant professor of Family Medicine and Community Health in the Perelman School of Medicine, and director of Integrative Medicine, recently received a 1.5 million dollar National...
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Medical and Surgical Treatments Equally Effective for Common Inflammatory...
Patients with uveitis, the fifth leading cause of vision loss in the United States, treated with either systemic anti-inflammatory medicine or with a time-release implant surgically placed inside the...
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Penn Medicine Doctors Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jonathan A. Epstein, M.D., Katherine High, M.D. and Amita Sehgal, Ph.D. have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Combination Therapy Shows Promise for Rare, Deadly Cancer Caused by Asbestos,...
Pleural mesothelioma patients who undergo lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) show superior overall survival than patient treated using the conventional therapy of...
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New Center to Study Health Care Financing
The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) is partnering with the Leonard Davis Institute Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics of the University of Pennsylvania on a new...
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Penn Medicine Researcher Receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund Grant to Study...
Stacey Rentschler, MD, PhD, cardiovascular instructor, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), has received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Career Award for Medical Scientists.
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Penn Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Receives $7.5 Million Renewal Award...
The Alzheimer's Disease Core Center (ADCC) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has received a renewal grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at NIH.
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