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  • Penn Dental Medicine expands community care with new site in West Philadelphia

    Penn Dental Medicine has expanded its community care locations, opening a new site in West Philadelphia within the PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar.

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  • Coordinated care, education program has potential for identifying and managing risk of cardiovascular disease in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis patients

    Researchers at Penn Medicine say closely monitoring and managing risk factors will likely curb the development of cardiovascular disease, but that care coordination is key.

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  • Penn Dental Medicine joins with the WHO to address oral health in Africa

    Penn Dental’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa brought together oral health educators, chief dental officers, and representatives from Ministries of Health from throughout Africa at the Exploring Global Strategies To Promote Oral Health In The WHO African Region conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

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  • Penn Dental Medicine expanding care for cancer patients

    Penn Dental Medicine has launched a new outreach effort to serve cancer patients undergoing treatment who may not have a dental care home.

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  • Penn Medicine researchers uncover unexpected molecular pattern in fragile X syndrome

    Penn Medicine researchers have found that severe DNA misfolding and the silencing of genes are related to synaptic and connective tissue tied to fragile X syndrome.

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  • Mammogram rates increase when patients can schedule themselves

    By making mammograms easy to schedule through personal online patient portals, Penn Medicine research shows a significant increase in screenings for breast cancer.

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  • New drug helps narrow racial survival disparity in patients with acute myeloid leukemia

    National data shows improved survival for non-Hispanic Black patients, according to a Penn Medicine analysis presented at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.

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  • Announcing the 2023 Amy Gutmann Leadership Scholars

    This endowed program—created from a $2M gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn president Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle—provides financial aid for exemplary undergraduate and graduate nursing students, supplementing their education with tailored learning to help shape nurse leaders who deliver exceptional evidence-based care, design research, inform policy, spark innovation, and advocate for social justice worldwide.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Edward Lin receives award at Harvard Dental School

    Yi Te (Edward) Lin, a third-year periodontal resident and lab member at Penn Engineering and Applied Sciences‘ Electrical and Systems Engineering Department, received the first-place Scientific Poster Award for Student Excellence at the Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry hosted by Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine.

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  • Penn Medicine at the 2023 ASH Meeting

    Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine will present data on the latest advances in blood cancer and benign hematology research at the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News