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A successful new experiment opens potential for future bridge-to-transplant approach
Human body with a rendering of liver in the foreground.

Image: iStock/Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen

A successful new experiment opens potential for future bridge-to-transplant approach

A team at Penn Medicine has achieved the first successful external liver perfusion using a porcine liver, raising hopes for a possible effective option to “bridge” critically ill patients to liver transplant.

From Penn Medicine News

Ecuador’s state of emergency
A military vehicle drives through a hilly residential neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador. Two women, one holding hands with a young child, walk alongside on the street.

Soldiers patrol a residential area of northern Quito, Ecuador, on Jan. 11, 2024. President Daniel Noboa decreed Monday a national state of emergency due to a wave in crime, a measure that lets authorities suspend people's rights and mobilize the military. The government also imposed a curfew.

(Image: AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

  • Q&A

    • Ecuador’s state of emergency

    In a Q&A, political scientist Jane Esberg discusses democracy and organized crime in Latin America. 

    Kristina García

    Penn Carey Law students explore issues affecting women’s equality in sports
    Maya Moore plays basketball.

    WNBA star Maya Moore drives the lane as the United States Women’s National Basketball Team play an inter-squad exhibition game at the University of Delaware.

    Image: rawpixel/U.S. Department of Defense

    Penn Carey Law students explore issues affecting women’s equality in sports

    Students from Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s class on women, law, and leadership produced the report, “Putting Women Back in the Game.”

    From Penn Carey Law

    Who, What, Why: John Button on a neglected tropical disease
    John Button poses in dental school lab.

    John Button is a second-year student in the School of Dental Medicine who is researching and raising awareness of noma.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: John Button on a neglected tropical disease

    The second-year student in the School of Dental Medicine is working to raise awareness of a gangrenous infection called noma and map where cases happen.
    Remembering pathbreaking nurse, researcher, and leader
    Claire Fagin stands in front of Claire M. Fagin Hall on Penn campus.

    Former Interim Penn president and Nursing dean Claire Fagin in front of the Nursing School’s Claire M. Fagin Hall, which was named in her honor.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Nursing)

    Remembering pathbreaking nurse, researcher, and leader

    Claire Fagin, the former Nursing dean who served as Interim President of Penn in the early 90’s, died Jan. 16. Members of the Penn community share their thoughts on Fagin’s legacy.

    Kristen de Groot

    ‘False positive’ field drug tests lead to wrongful convictions
    A police car with its lights on the roof.

    Image: iStock/MattGush

    ‘False positive’ field drug tests lead to wrongful convictions

    A new Quattrone Center report shows that the use of presumptive field tests in drug arrests is one of the largest known contributing factors to wrongful arrests and convictions.

    From Penn Carey Law

    Palliative care study demonstrates scalable strategy to support hospitalized patients
    A patient in a hospital bed with an oxygen reader on their finger.

    Image: iStock/gorodenkoff

    Palliative care study demonstrates scalable strategy to support hospitalized patients

    The largest-ever study of palliative care shows “default orders” in electronic medical records nearly triples palliative care consultation rates for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia, or kidney failure.

    Meagan Raeke

    Exploring Jane Austen and Taylor Swift
    Melissa Jensen standing on a stairway

    A 1989 Penn grad, Melissa Jensen has taught literature and writing at Penn for 15 years.

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    Exploring Jane Austen and Taylor Swift

    In a first-year English seminar taught by Melissa Jensen in the School of Arts & Sciences, students focus on the teenaged writing by now-famous authors, musicians, and artists, including Jane Austen and Taylor Swift.