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Shorter Courses of Proton Therapy Can Be Just as Effective as Full Courses in...
Treating prostate cancer with higher doses of proton therapy over a shorter amount of time leads to similar outcomes when compared to standard dose levels and treatments and is safe for patients,...
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Penn Medicine Hospitals to be Named 2019 Leaders in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality...
All six of Penn Medicine’s hospitals will be recognized as 2019 leaders in LGBTQ healthcare equality by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the country’s largest lesbian,...
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Researchers Identify New Way to Make Cancer Self Destruct
For years, researchers have been trying to target a gene called MYC that is known to drive tumor growth in multiple cancer types when it is mutated or over-expressed, but hitting that target...
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Cardiac Genetic Mutation May Not Always Predict Heart Disease
More than 750,000 people in the United States have dilated cardiomyopathy, a potentially life-threatening condition in which the heart’s main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, enlarges and grows...
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Awards & Accolades: June 2019
Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
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Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer May Raise Risk of Alzheimer’s, Dementia
For patients with prostate cancer, treating the disease with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is linked to a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, compared to...
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Synthetic Biologist Named Penn Presidential Professor
César de la Fuente, PhD, has joined the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as a Presidential Assistant Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Microbiology, in...
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Adding Immunotherapy After Initial Treatment Can Benefit Metastatic Lung...
Treating metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab after they’ve completed locally ablative therapy – meaning all known sites of their cancer were...
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Early and Ongoing Experiences of Weight Stigma Linked to Self-Directed Weight...
Weight bias is a common form of prejudice against people who are viewed as having excess weight. Some individuals who struggle with weight may internalize the stigma directed toward them, blaming and...
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Penn Medicine and Grand View Health Announce Orthopaedic Care Partnership
Penn Orthopaedics and Grand View Health have announced a new affiliation to better serve patients in need of high-quality orthopaedic care in Bucks and Montgomery counties, and the surrounding areas.
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Taking out the Protein Garbage Becomes More Difficult as Neurons Age
According to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, as cells age, their ability to shed harmful refuse declines.
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Music Can Be a Viable Alternative to Medications in Reducing Anxiety Before...
Music is a viable alternative to sedative medications in reducing patient anxiety prior to an anesthesia procedure, according to a Penn Medicine study published today in the journal Regional Anesthesia...
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Advanced Neuroimaging Shows Brain Matter Alterations in U.S. Government...
Brain imaging of 40 U.S. government personnel who experienced a host of neurological symptoms after possible exposure of an unknown source while serving in Cuba revealed significant differences in...
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Deputy Director of Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center Receives $3 Million Grant...
Katherine L. Nathanson, MD, deputy director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pearl Basser Professor for BRCA-Related Research in Penn’s Perelman School of...
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Penn Biochemists Streamline Construction Method for Human Artificial Chromosomes
For the past 20 years, researchers have been trying to perfect the construction of human artificial chromosomes, or HACs for short. In a paper published today in Cell, Penn researchers describe a new...
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Penn Medicine’s Jill M. Baren, MD, Elected President of the American Board of...
Jill M. Baren, MD, a professor of Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected President of the American...
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Peering into the Soul of the Immune System to Better Fight Disease
A rare, short-lived population of immune cells in the bloodstream may serve as ‘periscopes’ to monitor immune status via lymph nodes deep inside the body, according to researchers in the Perelman...
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Measuring the Brain’s Amyloid Buildup Less Effective in Identifying Severity,...
While the presence of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain may be a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, giving patients an amyloid PET scan is not an effective method for measuring their cognitive function,...
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Balance of “Stop” and “Go” Signaling Could Be Key to Cancer Immunotherapy...
A crucial signaling pathway that can tell the immune system to fight off cancer can also be co-opted by cancer cells to put the brakes on the immune system, according to a new study from researchers in...
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Could NFL Players’ Performance After A Concussion Mask The Dangers?
While more light is being shed on the effects that concussions have on player performance, the researchers sought to examine how athletic performance was affected immediately, which has not been...
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