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  • NIH funds Penn Medicine Achilles Tendon Research Center

    The new Penn Achilles Tendinopathy Center of Research Translation seeks to build insights that lead to better treatment of Achilles tendon injuries.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Advocating for developmental care for infants with complex congenital heart disease

    Developmental disorders, disabilities, and delays are common outcomes for infants with complex congenital heart disease. Targeting early factors influencing these conditions after birth and during neonatal hospitalization for cardiac surgery remains a critical need. However, significant gaps remain in understanding the best practices to improve neurodevelopmental and psychosocial outcomes for these infants.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Yiddish in the stacks

    Tucked away in the third-floor stacks of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center is a modest section of remarkable books documenting the surviving story of Yiddish language literature, culture, and history. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • New fund created to support veterans’ care

    The new Penn Dental Medicine Veterans Dental Care Fund will support Veterans coming to the School for care and needing financial assistance for their treatment plans.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • How behavioral economics can influence clinician behavior

    Behavioral economics is a useful tool that can be leveraged to help clinicians make decisions that are in the best interests of their patients. Peer feedback, opt-out messages, ‘nudges,’ and defaults are a few of the ways in which health systems can make the right choice the easy one to make for clinicians.

    FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →

  • Penn Medicine researchers take step toward personalized CAR T-like treatment for rare form of autoimmune disease

    CAR T cell therapy can be reworked to treat a form of the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis according to a preclinical study from the Perelman School of Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • What should be the 28th amendment to the Constitution?

    If the United States were to have a 28th Amendment to the Constitution, what should it be? The question was posed last fall to hundreds of Philadelphia-area 4th and 5th grade students by the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement in its Citizenship Challenge essay contest.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Weitzman receives National Park Service grant to protect and preserve Route 66 cultural landscape

    The Center for Architectural Conservation at Weitzman has received one of 11 grants awarded by the National Park Service to develop a model documentation and conservation management plan for the Route 66 landscape in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Penn Dental Medicine student delegation visits Hebrew University

    Three students at Penn Dental Medicine traveled to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein Kerem Campus for a two-week dental immersion program as part of Penn Dental Medicine’s International Dental Student Exchange Program.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Meet the Patient Access Center team at Penn Medicine whose work opens many doors

    Access services associates are responsible for making sure patients are scheduled to see the right provider at the right time. As Penn Medicine’s largest call center, the Access Center staff are often considered the “front door” and first point of contact for patients.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →