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Perelman School of Medicine students find their match
A standing med student is handed an envelope on Match day while smiling.

Perelman School of Medicine students find their match

On March 15, 146 medical students from the Perelman School of Medicine celebrated Match Day—the national, annual ceremony, during which students learn where they will spend the next chapter of their journeys toward becoming physicians and surgeons. 

Penn Today Staff

The placebo cure
Five round pills lined up with smiley faces drawn on the front

The placebo cure

Drug researchers use control groups to measure the efficacy of their drug tests. What happens when the control group responds? Science proves the placebo effect is indeed medicine itself.
A bad bout of flu triggers ‘taste bud cells’ to grow in the lungs
Microscopic images of fluorescent cells show up green against a red and blue background. The green glowing cells are elongated in shape.

The discovery of tuft cells (in green) in mice lungs after flu gives researchers insights into how a bad respiratory infection may set the stage for certain inflammatory conditions, such as asthma. The cells are named for the elongated microvilli which project from their surface. (Image: Courtesy of Andrew Vaughan) 

A bad bout of flu triggers ‘taste bud cells’ to grow in the lungs

The discovery of these seemingly out-of-place sensing cells may lend insight into possibilities for protecting lung function in people who experience severe influenza infections.

Katherine Unger Baillie

An implant to blunt opioid effects
gloved hand holding naltrexone implant

An implant to blunt opioid effects

A study by Penn Medicine researchers finds a slow-release naltrexone implant helps HIV patients with opioid dependence adhere to medications and prevent relapse.

Penn Today Staff

Prepping Philly high schoolers for college
student works in Penn Dental's simulation lab

Prepping Philly high schoolers for college

Rising 11th graders in the Provost Summer Mentorship Program at Penn spend a month on campus diving into the professional fields of dentistry, medicine, law, nursing, and engineering.

Lauren Hertzler

Western bias in human genetic studies is ‘both scientifically damaging and unfair’
A large group of people sit on the ground outside, roughly in a circle around a group of presenters in the African landscape.

Including underrepresented groups in genomics studies, as Sarah Tishkoff (addressing participants above) has done through her career of studying African population diversity, is essential to reap the benefits of such studies, according to a new commentary in the journal Cell. (Credit: Tishkoff lab)

Western bias in human genetic studies is ‘both scientifically damaging and unfair’

In a commentary in the journal Cell, PIK Professor Sarah Tishkoff and Giorgio Sirugo shine a light on the lack of ethnic diversity represented in genomic studies, and the consequences for health and medicine.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Karen Kreeger

What is esketamine?
Man sits down with doctor to discuss mental health

What is esketamine?

Following FDA approval of esketamine as a nasal spray to address otherwise untreatable cases of depression, Michael Thase, a professor of psychiatry at Penn Medicine, explains what it is and how it came to be.
Kevin B. Mahoney named CEO of University of Pennsylvania Health System
Kevin B. Mahoney

Kevin B. Mahoney

Kevin B. Mahoney named CEO of University of Pennsylvania Health System

The Penn Medicine leader, who will assume this new role on July 1, is praised for developing visionary health system infrastructure and supporting lifesaving innovations in medicine.

Penn Today Staff

Can closing homeless encampments help Philadelphia’s opioid problem?
People standing in a group outside, with winter coats and orange vests, in front of a tent and plastic bags.

A report authored by Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice and David Metzger of the Perelman School of Medicine shows that shuttering two camps led to many new addiction-treatment slots and some successful placements in permanent or temporary housing. (Photo: City of Philadelphia)

Can closing homeless encampments help Philadelphia’s opioid problem?

According to a new report, the city’s recent effort opened up treatment spots for people with opioid addiction and offered permanent and temporary housing options.

Michele W. Berger