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Penn Medicine Receives $4.9 Million Grant to Improve Uptake of Cancer Care...
While extensive research has pointed toward ways to ensure patients receive evidence-based cancer care, putting these solutions into widespread practice can be a complex, challenging, and inefficient...
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How to Make Digital Health Apps and Devices Actually Useful in Healthcare
Digital health apps and devices hold great promise in helping patients change their behaviors and make healthier choices, but there are several steps clinicians and health systems need to take in order...
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National Cancer Institute Designates Penn's Abramson Cancer Center as...
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has once again rated the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania (ACC) as “exceptional,” the highest possible rating for an NCI-designated...
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Perfectly Balanced: The Yin and Yang of Inflammation Controlled By A Single...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have now identified a protein called histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) as the orchestrator of the immune system’s...
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Penn’s ‘Enhanced Recovery’ Program Significantly Reduces Post-Op Opioid Use
The majority of patients who followed an “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery” (ERAS) protocol did not need opioids for pain management at multiple time points following elective spinal and peripheral...
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Penn Medicine-Led Research Suggests Greater Access to Specific HIV and...
After looking at the health records of over 10,000 patients with both HIV and multidrug resistant Tuberculosis (TB) in over 20 different countries, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Penn Medicine Announces Appointment of Richard C. Wender, MD, as Chair of...
Richard C. Wender, MD, a longtime Family and Community Medicine professor and physician in Philadelphia, has been named chair of Family Medicine and Community Health in the Perelman School of Medicine...
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Awards & Accolades: July 2020
Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
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Trauma Centers Weathered Increase in Gun Violence from Philadelphia’s...
While Philadelphia’s Level 1 trauma centers saw a 20 percent drop in patients during the first month and a half of the COVID-19 outbreak, there was a 5 percent increase in penetrating trauma across the...
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Chatbots Delivering Psychotherapy Help Decrease Opioid Use After Surgery
Patients who need surgery to fix major bone fractures use fewer opioid pills after their procedure if they’re reminded of their values – and those reminders don’t necessarily need to come from a...
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Gender Parity in Heart Failure Research: More Female Authors Could Mean More...
While about a quarter of physicians and researchers working in advanced heart failure (HF) and transplant cardiology are women, representation of women leading HF research remains limited, according to...
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Penn Commentary Highlights Potential for Existing Drugs Like Statins As...
New data suggest statins as a potentially helpful class of drugs to fight COVID-19, and pointing to that study, two researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
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$2.5 Million Grant Supports Penn Medicine Study of COVID Watch’s Impact on...
Penn Medicine ’s COVID Watch team has received a $2.5 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the program’s impact, particularly among Black and Latinx...
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Opioid Prescription Rates for Knee Surgery Patients Vary, But Higher Strength...
A new study published in BMJ Open found that opioid prescription rates for outpatient knee surgery vary widely across the country, but the strength of the average prescription in the United States is...
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Penn Medicine Helps Power International COVID-19 Data Consortium
To provide greater clinical insight for the fight against COVID-19, a consortium of research scientists that included faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
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Cell Phone Location Used to Estimate COVID-19 Growth Rates
New research shows that counties with a greater decline in workplace cell phone activity during stay-at-home orders showed a lower rate of COVID-19 infections.
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Penn Researchers Continue to Advance Transplantation of Hepatitis C...
More than 90,000 people in the United States are awaiting kidney transplants, with wait-times that can be five, seven, even 10 or more years, but new research from a team in the Perelman School of...
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Investigational Drug Stops Toxic Proteins Tied to Neurodegenerative Diseases
An investigational drug that targets an instigator of the TDP-43 protein, a well-known hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), may reduce the protein’s...
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Penn Medicine Named LGBTQ Health Care Equality Leader for 2020
Penn Medicine’s six hospitals have been named 2020 “LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leaders” by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
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Who Should Get the COVID-19 Vaccine First? Penn-Led Team Lays Groundwork for...
When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce. The World Health Organization (WHO), global leaders, and vaccine producers are already facing the question of how...
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