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Examining How Commonly Used Blood Pressure Medications Affect Outcomes Among...
A new trial led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will evaluate whether the use of medications to treat high blood pressure affect outcomes among patients who are...
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Penn Medicine Launches COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Study
Convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19 patients — an experimental approach of giving a transfusion of plasma collected from a donor who has recovered from COVID-19 to a patient with an active...
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Welcome, Baby Benjamin: Penn Medicine Birth Marks a Milestone in Uterus...
The birth of Benjamin Thomas Gobrecht defied both expectation and imagination: his mother, 33-year-old Jennifer Gobrecht, was born without a uterus.
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Penn Medicine Launches COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Study
Convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19 patients — an experimental approach of giving a transfusion of plasma collected from a donor who has recovered from COVID-19 to a patient with an active...
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A Link Between Obesity and Sleep Loss? Researchers Identify How Metabolism...
Can staying up late make you fat? A growing body of research has suggested that poor sleep quality is linked to an increased risk of obesity by deregulating appetite, which in turn leads to more...
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Activating an Estrogen Receptor Can Stop Pancreatic Cancer Cells from Growing
Activating the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) – a receptor found on the surface of many normal and cancer tissues – has been shown to stop pancreatic cancer from growing, but may also make...
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Financial Incentives Boost Doctor Training in Opioid Treatment Medication
Offering $750 to emergency medicine physicians exponentially increased those trained to prescribe buprenorphine
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Penn Researchers Receive $1.05 Million Grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Two teams of researchers, one from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the other from Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), were each awarded $525,000...
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Penn Researchers Discover Key Mechanism of Cytokine Storm in Castleman Disease
Now researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania say they know what’s happening at the cellular level of the immune system when these cytokine storms occur, and the...
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Updated Data Show Promise of Targeted Therapy in Castleman Disease
Six years ago, David C. Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, both a Penn Medicine researcher and patient, tried an experimental treatment based on his laboratory research findings in the hopes of saving his own...
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Steep Decline in Organ Transplants Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
France and the United States, two countries hit hard by the novel coronavirus, have experienced a tremendous reduction in the number of organ donations and solid organ (kidney, liver, heart, and lung)...
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Elizabeth Howell, MD, MPP, Named New Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at...
Elizabeth Howell, MD, MPP, an accomplished researcher of health inequities and a respected women’s health leader, has been named chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Perelman...
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Reddit Reveals Peaks of Public Interest in COVID-19 Topics
Machine learning can be used to track surges in interest in health topics on popular online comment boards, like Reddit, according to a new study conducted during the COVID-19 outbreak by researchers...
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New Liver Cancer Research Targets Non-Cancer Cells to Blunt Tumor Growth
Senotherapy,” a treatment that uses small molecule drugs to target “senescent” cells, or those cells that no longer undergo cell division, blunts liver tumor progression in animal models according to...
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Researchers Suggest Increased Risk of Respiratory-Tract Infections in People...
After examining data from large trials of autoimmune-disease medications called Interleukin-17 (IL-17) inhibitors, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found...
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New Cancer Immunotherapy Targeting Myeloid Cells Slows Tumor Growth
Checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immunotherapy, that target myeloid immune cells and slow tumor growth were discovered by a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
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Penn Medicine Brings Healing Power of Music to Patients with Virtual...
Penn Medicine, in partnership with The Philadelphia Orchestra, will bring the healing power of music to patients at Penn Medicine’s six hospitals, including those being treated for COVID-19.
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New “Blueprint” of Exhausted T Cell Lifespan Could Help Build Better...
Mapping out the lifespan of the immune cells that lose steam in the body’s fight against cancer is giving Penn Medicine researchers a better understanding of how future immunotherapies could...
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Taking Inventory of Which Drugs the World Is Using to Treat COVID-19
With doctors and researchers around the world searching for effective treatments for COVID-19, many drugs approved to treat other diseases are being used in hopes that they’ll be effective against the...
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Follow-up Treatments After Opioid Overdose Rare Among Insured Patients
The majority of commercially insured patients who visited the emergency department (ED) for an opioid overdose didn’t receive the timely follow-up care known to help prevent a future overdose or death,...
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