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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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More Men, Younger Americans Having Joint Replacement Surgery
Matthew Sloan of the Perelman School of Medicine suggested that the decline in age for joint-replacement surgeries may be tied to “increasing obesity or increased access to care in a generation that desires to maintain an active lifestyle into their retirement years.”
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Philly health department launches new lab to sequence, track COVID variants
Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine, whose lab has helped to sequence COVID data samples, says that the more people who can contribute to this work, the better.
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Penn surgeons connected a pig liver to the body of a deceased person, showing it could work for living patients
Abraham Shaked of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on a liver that came from a pig that was genetically modified so it would not provoke the human immune system.