Penn Researchers Make Major Advancement in Islet Cell Transplantation for...
A cure for type-1 diabetes has come closer with the development of a new method for keeping transplanted insulin-producing cells alive and functional in recipients for long periods even when...
View ArticlePenn Researchers Solve Decades Old Mitochondrial Mystery that Could Lead to...
Penn Medicine researchers have solved a decades old mystery around a key molecule fueling the power plant of cells that could be exploited to find new ways to treat diseases, from neurodegenerative...
View ArticlePenn Medicine Receives $3.6 Million National Institute of Mental Health Grant...
Researchers will study implementation of firearm safety promotion in pediatric primary care as a suicide prevention strategy
View ArticlePatients with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Should Continue Treatment...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and 16 other research institutions from the United States and Canada in collaboration with the National Psoriasis...
View ArticleAwards & Accolades: August 2020
Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
View ArticleMiddle-Aged Individuals May Be in a Perpetual State of H3N2 Flu Virus...
Penn Medicine researchers have found that middle-aged individuals — those born in the late 1960s and the 1970s — may be in a perpetual state of H3N2 influenza virus susceptibility because their...
View ArticleNearly 1 in 10 COVID Patients Return to Hospital After Being Sent Home from...
— Roughly 1 in 10 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 needed to return to the hospital within a week of discharge from an emergency department visit, according to data from the first three months of the...
View ArticleTV Ads for Psoriasis and Eczema Medications Portray Few People of Color
– Commercials from pharmaceutical companies advertising medication to treat psoriasis and eczema lack people from racial and ethnic minorities, according to research from the Perelman School of...
View ArticleNew Strategy Against Autoimmune Disease Demonstrates Safety and Efficacy in...
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that a powerful new potential treatment for the autoimmune disease mucosal pemphigus vulgaris (PV) appeared safe...
View ArticlePenn Researchers Discover Potential Cause of Immunotherapy-Related...
New research has uncovered the previously unknown presence of CD19 — a B cell molecule targeted by chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy to treat leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma...
View ArticleNovel Dual CAR T Cell immunotherapy Holds Promise for Targeting The HIV...
A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, led by researchers James Riley, PhD, a professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Todd...
View ArticleIs Your Drinking Water Toxic? This App May Help You Find Out.
Exposure to hydraulic fracturing fluid in drinking water has been shown to increase the risk of respiratory problems, premature births, congenital heart defects, and other negative health consequences.
View ArticleMulti-Pronged Intervention Reduces IV Opioid Use in Hospitalized Patients...
After instituting a strategy to minimize intraveneous (IV) opioid treatment for hospitalized patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a study at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
View ArticlePublic Health Management Corporation, Penn Medicine, Trinity Health...
A coalition of the region’s premier health care organizations announced today their intention to join forces to transform Mercy Philadelphia into a thriving, reimagined campus built on a guiding...
View ArticleResearchers Develop More Accurate Surgery-Risk Predictor for Patients with...
Designed to help surgeons, anesthesiologists, and internists understand the safety of putting someone with cirrhosis through a specific surgery, the new tool can lead to thorough conversations between...
View ArticlePenn Researchers Uncover Epigenetic Drivers for Alzheimer’s Disease
New findings suggest that late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease is driven by epigenetic changes — how and when certain genes are turned on and off — in the brain. Results were published today in Nature Genetics.
View ArticleBlocking Enzyme’s Self-Destruction Process May Mitigate Age-Related Diseases
Stopping the cannibalistic behavior of a well-studied enzyme could be the key to new drugs to fight age-related diseases, according to a new study published online in Nature Cell Biology.
View ArticleHydroxychloroquine No More Effective Than Placebo in Preventing COVID-19
In a clinical trial testing whether a daily regimen of hydroxychloroquine could protect those most likely to be exposed to COVID-19, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University...
View ArticlePenn Medicine Researchers Discover A Rare Genetic Form of Dementia
A new, rare genetic form of dementia has been discovered by a team of Penn Medicine researchers.
View ArticlePenn Researchers Receive Grant to Use AI to Improve Heart Transplant Outcomes
A team of researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, were recently awarded a...
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