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An innovative AI tool to improve health care delivery in rural India
Fourth-year student Prithvi Parthasarathy standing with arms crossed in the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building

Fourth-year neuroscience major Prithvi Parthasarathy is dedicated to innovating health care delivery.

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An innovative AI tool to improve health care delivery in rural India

Prithvi Parthasarathy, a fourth-year neuroscience major, designed an AI triage tool to improve hospital efficiency and patient care.

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Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
A person in bed taking earplugs out of a case.

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Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality

Penn Medicine researchers find that earplugs work better in protecting sleep from traffic noise, challenging the widespread use of ambient sound machines and apps marketed as sleep aids.

Eric Horvath

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‘Nudging’ both patients and providers boosts flu vaccine numbers
A person getting a bandage on their arm after a flu shot from a medical provider.

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‘Nudging’ both patients and providers boosts flu vaccine numbers

A new study shows that when patients got text messages from their primary care practice, and the providers were nudged themselves to boost vaccination numbers, rates jumped.

Frank Otto

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Literature and medicine
Dag Woubeshet (right) speaks with student in a classroom who is giving the thumbs up.

Dagmawi Woubshet (right), Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English, says “we try to teach our students how to think critically and historically, but also with fidelity to the art object.”

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Literature and medicine

The Penn Arts & Sciences course Literature and Medicine begins with Apollo and the Hippocratic Oath and extends through the 21st century with poetry, novels, videography, historical texts, and guest lecturers from the Perelman School of Medicine and beyond.

Kristina Linnea García

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PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region
Three members of the PennSTAR flight crew next to a helicopter.

The flight crew of a PennSTAR helicopter on the roof of the Clifton Center in between call.

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PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region

PennSTAR’s flight crews and Metro Aviation pilots combine rigorous training, redundant safety, and a proprietary instrument approach to move the sickest patients quickly to the right Penn Medicine care.

From Penn Medicine News

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RTW Foundation donates $8M to reimagine physician training in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine 
Kevin Mahoney, Jennifer Kogan, J. Larry Jameson, Rod and Marti Speranza Wong, Lisa Bellini, and Jonathan Epstein.

(From left) Kevin Mahoney, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS); Jennifer Kogan, vice dean for Undergraduate Medical Education; Penn President J. Larry Jameson; Rod Wong and Marti Speranza Wong; Lisa Bellini, executive vice dean of the Perelman School of Medicine and senior vice president of academic affairs for UPHS; Jonathan Epstein, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine and Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for UPHS.

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RTW Foundation donates $8M to reimagine physician training in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine 

The gift sparks curriculum transformation, new lectureship, and names Entrepreneurship Pathway in honor of alumnus Rod Wong.

Carmen Lennon

2 min. read

Can aging be treated at the cellular level?
A microscope with a slide.

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Can aging be treated at the cellular level?

Penn researchers Shelley Berger and Esra Sahingur explain senescence, the process of cellular aging, and discuss the complexities of developing anti-aging therapies that target these cells.

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