In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn researchers have developed a risk model for cardiovascular disease using proteomics, the large scale study of proteins. The proteins act as a type of biomarker, which can be used to help identify diseases in the body. The new model is found to be more accurate than current methods of measuring cardiac risk.
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After a fall, tests at Pennsylvania Hospital revealed that Eloise Brown had a subdural hematoma. Subdural hematomas are not uncommon, especially in elderly populations. What’s rare is seeing a 100-year-old patient who can undergo successful brain surgery for that type of condition. Brown spent five days in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit and five more in recovery. Thanks to Penn Medicine At Home, Brown has received several months of in-home physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and continues to progress in her recovery.
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New research by LDI associate fellow Caitlin Finn and LDI senior fellow Rachel Kelz find that even hospitals within miles of each other can provide a different quality of care, and their performance is often procedure-specific, meaning that a hospital with strong outcomes in one condition may have weak outcomes in another.
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LDI senior fellow Ingrid Nembhard has overseen a study led by Penn Medicine and Wharton graduate Elana Meer that investigates successful health care innovation management.
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One of the most common questions medical professionals encounter is if it is safe for a woman with MS to conceive. Dina Jacobs, an associate professor of neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine, assures women that it is perfectly safe for a woman with MS to get pregnant and give birth. With advances in MS research, doctors are making diagnoses earlier, treating more effectively, and better managing relapses in general. When a patient’s MS is better managed prior to pregnancy, then the likelihood of relapse is therefore lower during and after pregnancy, Jacobs says.
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Food sensitivities and intolerances are not food allergies, according to Nitin Ahuja, an assistant professor of gastroenterology. While both are some weird or seemingly inappropriate reactions to what we eat, allergies are a response in the body involving the immune system and usually a protein. The effects of a food allergy are instantaneous. Food intolerances and sensitivities occur simply when the body does not properly digest a food.
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Emily Largent, Peter Reese, and Dominic Sisti are recognized for their work towards informing scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences research, and the environment.
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Physicians from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center’s division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology have recently launched a three-year pilot program to determine if artificial intelligence technology could improve precancerous polyp detection in screening colonoscopies.
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When a patient completes their treatment they are given the opportunity to “ring the bell,” a brass bell hung from the wall. But for patients who have metastatic cancer and need to be on maintenance therapy for life, they may feel excluded. In the last few years, the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine has been working to make bell-ringing more inclusive.
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Penn researchers have looked at factors that might lead to gender disparities in emergency medicine (EM), and found that gender played a role in both the content and quality of feedback. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers analyzed narrative comments for EM residents from EM attending physicians over a three-year period, across five EM training programs nationwide.
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