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Patients Stick with Smartphone Activity Trackers Longer Than Wearable Devices
Doctors who want to track their patients’ physical activity might have more luck doing it with smartphones than wearable fitness devices, according to a new Penn Medicine study.
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CRISPR “Minigene” Approach Stops Genetic Liver Disease in Mice
A new CRISPR gene-editing technique prevented a genetic liver disease known to be driven by hundreds of different mutations and improved clinical symptoms in mice, Penn Medicine researchers reported in...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Illuminate Racial Disparity in U.S. Acne Treatment
A variety of medications exist to treat acne, from very potent oral drugs to topical medications. But according to a new study from Penn Medicine, patients who are black are far less likely to receive...
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Fewer Steroids No Plasma Exchange A Change in Treatment for Vasculitis
A decade-spanning trial found that for patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis, two common methods of treatment actually do not have an impact on their long-term...
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DNA Misfolding in White Blood Cells Increases Risk for Type 1 Diabetes
It’s known that genetics, or an inherited genome, is a major determinant of one’s risk for autoimmune diseases, like Type 1 diabetes.
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Results from a new study suggest that Bmal1 gene is not an essential...
The Bmal1 gene, found throughout the human body, is believed to be a critical part of the body’s main molecular timekeeper, but after deleting it in animal models, researchers from the Perelman School...
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Machine Learning Identifies Personalized Brain Networks in Children
Machine learning is helping Penn Medicine researchers identify the size and shape of brain networks in individual children, which may be useful for understanding psychiatric disorders.
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Releasing the Brakes: Potential New Methods for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy...
Researchers identified a group of small molecules that may open the door to developing new therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), an as-yet-uncured disease that results in devastating muscle...
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Blood Test Can Predict Clinical Response to Immunotherapy in Metastatic...
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with higher measures of tumor mutations that show up in a blood test generally have a better clinical response to PD-1-based immunotherapy treatments than...
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Targeting Stromal Cells May Help Overcome Treatment Resistance in Glioblastoma
The deadly brain cancer glioblastoma (GBM) is often resistant to chemotherapy and radiation, but new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Abramson...
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Researchers Discover Second Type of Schizophrenia
Penn Medicine researchers are the first to discover two distinct neuroanatomical subtypes of schizophrenia after analyzing the brain scans of over 300 patients.
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Imaging Can Guide Whether Liquid Biopsy Will Benefit Individual Glioblastoma...
Tracking brain cancer with a blood test instead of a surgical biopsy may greatly improve quality of life for glioblastoma (GBM) patients and provide critical information for their care, but it is not...
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Pennsylvania Hospital Names New Chair of Neurology
Lawrence R. Wechsler, MD, a leader in the field of vascular neurology, has been named chair of the department of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Newly Discovered Brain Response to Obesity Drug May Inform Future Treatments
A new preclinical study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, published in Science Translational Medicine today, shows how liraglutide crosses the brain’s blood...
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Penn’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine Establishes Global Award to...
The Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IRM) at the University of Pennsylvania has established a global award that will honor pioneers in science and medicine.
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Facebook Users Change Their Language Before an Emergency Hospital Visit
The language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the emergency department (ED), a new study found.
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Giving Commonly Used Muscle Relaxant Through Nose Shows Potential to Treat...
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania showed that administering dantrolene through the nose increased its brain...
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Protective Brain-Cell Housekeeping Mechanism May Also Regulate Sleep
An important biological mechanism that is thought to protect brain cells from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s may also be involved in regulating sleep, according to new...
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