In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
This fall, thirty Lancaster General Health employees, including nurses, cardiologists, technicians, and a sports medicine physician, worked with staff and pediatric cardiologists from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to provide free heart screenings for more than 125 students ages 12-19.
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The ACC joins top academic cancer centers from across the United States in creating the most frequently updated cancer care guidelines worldwide.
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The initiative provides a path for UK and European Union patients to access Penn’s experts and care through referrals and telemedicine, as well as opportunities for collaboration with UK medical schools.
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After the first year of a five-year contract between the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Independence Blue Cross (Independence), the health system is reporting a more than 25 percent cut in hospital readmissions—the largest readmission reduction in both organizations’ history.
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Penn Nursing’s Terri Lipman was on hand in Harrison to urge lawmakers to pass Pennsylvania Senate Resolution 484, which recognizes November 2018 as National Diabetes Month in the Keystone State.
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A new Penn Medicine study, published today in Obesity, the journal of the Obesity Society, finds intensive behavioral therapy, which provides diet and physical activity counseling, is proven to help adults with obesity achieve meaningful weight loss in six to 12 months.
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Yelp reviews reveal that emergency departments are viewed as being higher quality but lacking in service as compared to urgent care centers, which patients rate the opposite, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine.
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Melissa Bailey, a clinical dietician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania believes there is no “one size fits all” approach to diet, but says there is real scientific evidence backing the merits of soup—especially for those with a cold.
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To optimize post-acute care decision-making, a team led by the School of Nursing developed, validated, and tested a two-step clinical decision support algorithm called Discharge Referral Expert System for Care Transitions (DIRECT).
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Kit Delgado of the Perelman School of Medicine and a team from Penn and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have received a major grant from the Federal Highway Administration to help curb distracted driving.
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