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Philadelphia Tax on Sweetened Drinks Led to Drop in Sales
— Philadelphia’s tax on sweetened beverages led to a 38.9 percent drop in the volume of taxed beverages sold at small, independent retailers and a significant increase in the price of taxed beverages,...
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Nature Access Requires Attention When Addressing Community Health Needs
While access to nature is an established social determinant of health with clear benefits to physical, mental, and social health, it does not receive as must attention by health care providers or...
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Penn to Co-Lead $6.5 Million Transatlantic Grant to Investigate the Role of...
An international research collaboration to pioneer the field of immuno-cardiology and investigate ways to harness the power of the immune system to improve recovery from heart attacks will be led at...
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Penn Researchers Find Three Distinct Immune Responses for Sicker COVID-19...
Researchers from the Penn Institute of Immunology discovered three distinct immune responses to the SARS-CoV2 infection that could help predict the trajectory of disease in severe COVID-19 patients and...
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Penn Medicine Emergency Department to Take Part in NIH Opioid Recovery Study
The National Institutes of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative chose the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center as one of its sites for a study comparing the effectiveness of two...
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Rare Mutation of TP53 Gene Leaves People at Higher Risk for Multiple Cancers
For the first time, a team led by researchers in the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania details the potential implications of a lower risk TP53...
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Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Have Low Risk of Stroke
While initial reports suggested a significant risk of stroke in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, a new paper published in Stroke from Penn Medicine shows a low risk of stroke in patients...
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U.S. Military Has Improved Mortality Since World War II, But There Have Been...
New analysis shows that while the survivability of wounds on the battlefield has steadily improved for United States service members since World War II, there were several increases that bucked that...
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“Self-eating” Process of Stem Cells May be the Key to New Regenerative Therapies
The self-eating process in embryonic stem cells known as chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) and a related metabolite may serve as promising new therapeutic targets to repair or regenerate damaged cells...
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A Proposed Framework for Integrating Chatbots and Other Conversational Agents...
While the technology for developing artificial intelligence-powered chatbots has existed for some time, a new viewpoint piece in JAMA lays out the clinical, ethical, and legal aspects that must be...
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Penn Medicine Ranked Among Top Hospitals in the Nation and #1 in Pennsylvania...
Penn Medicine hospitals have once again been ranked among the top hospitals in the nation by U.S News & World Report. The combined enterprise of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and...
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Among Healthcare Workers, Family and Primary Care Doctors May Have Been Most...
Among healthcare workers, those in who work in primary care rather than the in-patient hospital setting, may have faced the highest risk of dying from COVID-1.
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New Machine Learning Method Allows Hospitals to Share Patient Data Privately
To answer medical questions that can be applied to a wide patient population, machine learning models rely on large, diverse datasets from a variety of institutions. However, health systems and...
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A New Model for Research Review Aims to Address Quality Challenges
National leaders in research ethics and regulation propose non-profit review boards to minimize conflicts of interest and leverage efficient business models.
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Pregnant Black and Hispanic Women Five Times More Likely to Be Exposed to...
The research team measured levels of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies to estimate rates of exposure to the novel coronavirus in pregnant women cared for at two Philadelphia hospitals.
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How Our Body’s Internal Clocks Communicate May Impact Our Overall Health
Nearly every cell in the body has its own 24-hour clock, and new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows the way those clocks interact with each other...
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Penn Researchers Identify New Genetic Cause of a Form of Inherited Neuropathy
Inherited mutations in a gene that keeps nerve cells intact was shown, for the first time, to be a driver of a neuropathy known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease.
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Half of Low-Income Communities Have No ICU Beds
A new Penn Medicine study sheds light on yet another reason why the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately killing the poor: Residents in low-income neighborhoods lack access to intensive care unit...
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