Clik here to view.
Newly Approved Spinal Muscle Atrophy Treatment Zolgensma is Based on Delivery...
James Wilson, MD, PhD, recalls being struck by the devastating toll of rare diseases as a young physician in the 1980s. He set out on a path to correct the genes that cause these conditions, including...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Amicus Therapeutics and the University of Pennsylvania Announce Major...
Amicus Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FOLD) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today announced a major expansion to their collaboration with rights to pursue collaborative...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seeing Disfigured Faces Prompts Negative Brain and Behavior Responses
A new study led by Penn Medicine researchers, which published today in Scientific Reports, uncovered an automatic “disfigured is bad” bias that also exists in contrast to “beautiful is good.”
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Quell a Cytokine Storm: International Team Finds New Ways to Dampen an...
Now, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, have deciphered the structure of the complex and have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Childhood Adversity Linked to Earlier Puberty, Premature Brain Development,...
Low socioeconomic status (L-SES) and the experience of traumatic stressful events (TSEs) were linked to accelerated puberty and brain maturation, abnormal brain development, and greater mental health...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Penn Receives $12 Million Grant to Study Connection Between Radiation and...
From understanding the genetics of cancer cells to improving cellular therapies and incorporating new methods of radiation therapy, a $12 million grant will help researchers at the Abramson Cancer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Penn Medicine Joins the Cochrane United States Network
Penn Medicine’s Center for Evidence-based Practice is one of 11 institutions to join the newly formed Cochrane U. S Network, representing a significant national expansion of global efforts to improve...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Replicating Fetal Bone Growth Process Could Help Heal Large Bone Defects
To treat large gaps in long bones, like the femur, which result from bone tumor removal or a shattering trauma, researchers at Penn Medicine and the University of Illinois at Chicago developed a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
People with Untreated “White Coat Hypertension” Twice as Likely to Die from...
Researchers at Penn Medicine say findings underscore the need for increased out-of-office blood pressure monitoring.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Awards & Accolades: June 2019
Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Common Conditions Keep Many Patients Out of Knee Cartilage Research Studies
Some of the most common traits among patients with cartilage issues in the knee are excluding them from participating in clinical trials because the trial outcomes might not yield the optimum results...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Reinvigorate Exhausted Immune Cells and Stop Cancer Along the Way
Penn study identifies protein that could be key to new immunotherapies
View ArticleClik here to view.
Facebook Posts Better at Predicting Diabetes, Mental Health Than Demographic...
Analyzing language shows that identifying certain groups of words significantly improves upon predicting some medical conditions in patients
View ArticleClik here to view.
Collegiate Affirmative Action Bans Linked to Increase in Smoking Among...
Penn Study Shows Unanticipated Adverse Effects of Affirmative Action Bans on Health Behaviors
View ArticleClik here to view.
Size Matters: New Data Reveals Cell Size Sparks Genome Awakening in Embryos
For the first time, a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found in an embryo that activation of its genome does not happen all at once, instead it follows a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Many Elderly Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Benefit from...
Many elderly patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC)—who are often underrepresented in clinical trials to treat the kidney cancer—are seeing overall survival benefits from treatment with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shorter Rotations in Intensive Care Units Mitigate Burnout Among Physicians
Shortening the length of rotations in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) from the traditional 14-consecutive day schedule to only seven days helps mitigate burnout among critical care physicians,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Simple Tools to High-Level Buy-In, How Doctors Can Help Cancer Patients...
A simple set of decision-support tools combined with institutional buy-in can help increase the number of cancer patients who engage in treatment to help them quit tobacco, data from researchers in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Philadelphia’s Mental Health Clinics, Use of Evidence-based Therapies for...
A new study from Penn Medicine and Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) shows that, unfortunately, evidence-based therapies to treat youth with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One Simple Change Cut Unnecessary Imaging for Cancer Patients in Half
Simply introducing a default physician order — a “nudge” — into electronic health records (EHRs) cut the use of unnecessary daily imaging in half during palliative radiation therapy sessions for...
View Article