Tweets showed increasing loneliness among emergency medicine doctors during COVID-19 Image: iStock/Sviatlana Lazarenka Tweets showed increasing loneliness among emergency medicine doctors during COVID-19 A new study from Penn Medicine finds a steady increase in expressions of loneliness and depression as the pandemic continued.
Data shows disparities among alcohol use disorder diagnosis among veterans Image: iStock/Boris Jovanovic Data shows disparities among alcohol use disorder diagnosis among veterans New Penn Medicine research shows how AUD diagnoses differ among veterans, given evidence that exposure to trauma, including combat, is a risk factor.
Why new cancer treatment discoveries are proliferating Image: Penn Medicine News Why new cancer treatment discoveries are proliferating The approval of CAR T cell therapy ushered in a new era for cancer treatment.
Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections Candida albicans is a species of yeast that is a normal part of the human microbiota but can also cause severe infections that pose a significant global health risk due to their resistance to existing treatments, so much so that the World Health Organization has highlighted this as a priority issue. The picture above shows a before (left) and after (right) fluorescence image of fungal biofilms being precisely targeted by nanozyme microrobots without bonding to or disturbing the tissue sample. (Image: Min Jun Oh and Seokyoung Yoon) Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections Researchers from Penn Dental and Penn Engineering have developed a nanorobot system that precisely and rapidly targets fungal infections in the mouth.
Folding@home: How you, and your computer, can play scientist Folding@home is led by Gregory Bowman, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor who has appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News) Folding@home: How you, and your computer, can play scientist Two heads are better than one. The ethos behind the scientific research project Folding@home is that same idea, multiplied: 50,000 computers are better than one.
Why climate change might be affecting your headaches Image: iStock/interstid Why climate change might be affecting your headaches Rising global average temperature and extreme weather events are likely to become more frequent or more intense. Experts suggest that the stress of these events can trigger headaches.
The path from innovation to implementation Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine The path from innovation to implementation Penn’s infrastructure in both supporting clinical research and forging commercial partnerships smooths the way from idea to approval.
Two Penn faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society Paul Offit, the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and Dorothy E. Roberts, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. (Images: (Left) Courtesy of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and (right) Sameer A. Khan) Two Penn faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society Paul Offit and Dorothy Roberts have been recognized for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields.
Three things to know about BRCA mutations in men Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News Three things to know about BRCA mutations in men Kara Maxwell, director of the Men & BRCA Program at the Basser Center, is bridging the knowledge gap about how BRCA mutations affect men.
Remote blood pressure monitoring may stave off postpartum health issues for those with preeclampsia Image: iStock/x-reflexnaja Remote blood pressure monitoring may stave off postpartum health issues for those with preeclampsia Penn Medicine’s remote heart-monitoring program, Heart Safe Motherhood, is likely to drive down total health care costs for the new mothers.