Surprise! It's twins!
Penn Vet's Michelle Linton assisted the preterm but healthy delivery of twin foals named Cache and Cherish. Carrying foals to term is quite unusual, and birthing healthy twins is especially unlikely.
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Penn Vet's Michelle Linton assisted the preterm but healthy delivery of twin foals named Cache and Cherish. Carrying foals to term is quite unusual, and birthing healthy twins is especially unlikely.
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A tracer developed at Penn that makes PARP-1 visible via PET scanning is the latest biomarker of the function and potential efficacy of PARP inhibitors in current ovarian cancer research.
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A new rehabilitation program encourages movement as neuroprotective therapy to slow the loss of the dopamine neurons responsible for the physical decline in Parkinson's patients.
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Min Yao Li and Sharon Xie are the newest fellows elected to the largest statistician organization in the U.S.
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A list of the award winners who will be honored at the Student-Alumni-Faculty Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 11th.
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From monitoring patients' sleep like vital signs, to making hospital room environments more relaxing, researchers with the Rest Project at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation are working with hospital clinicians to get their patients to sleep better.
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Two Dental Medicine students who received the American Association for Dental Research award will present their original research projects at the IADR/ER General Session and Exhibition in London this July.
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The Journal of Obstetric Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing published a special series that detail best practices for the handling, pricing and donating of supplemental breastmilk for newborns. For infants in the NICU, or for mothers with compromised or inadequate amounts of breastmilk, donor milk banks are becoming increasingly popular.
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The associate professor of oral medicine and director of the postdoctoral oral medicine program at Penn Dental School was installed as president for 2018-19 at the recent AAOM Annual Meeting.
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Preclinical research published in PLOS One shows potential for decreasing the risk of heart failure in Friedreich's ataxia patients, and will move forward with trials to determine whether raising HDL levels, or "good cholesterol" by administering statins will reduce their cardiovascular risk.
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