Internal Medicine

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Advancing algorithmic care

Experts from Penn share their perspectives on the role of advanced algorithms and AI in health care and what the future holds for digital health technologies.

Researchers explore spinal discs’ early response to injury

Researchers may have found a way to press pause on spinal disc injuries, giving doctors more time to treat them before worse issues develop.

Failure of mitochondrial quality control causes heart disease

A new Penn Medicine study reveals a well-known protein participates in mitophagy; mutations in the genes of that protein suppress mitophagy and cause disease.

The price of noise

Silence is a rare commodity these days, because society has only gotten louder. “And we're all paying a price for it in terms of our health,” says Mathias Basner, an associate professor of sleep and chronobiology in psychiatry at Penn.

How safe and effective are new pulmonary embolism devices?

A scientific statement from the American Heart Association, led by Penn Medicine, identifies the risks and benefits of new interventional devices compared to the use of blood thinners alone.

Penn team creates first bile duct-on-a-chip

The miniature, fabricated organ, replicating the structure and cellular makeup of the tissue, may lead to better understanding of the organ system and the differences between child and adult bile ducts.

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Reproductive science by experts, for teens

High school girls who take part in the Penn Academy for Reproductive Science get a hands-on lab course with top epigenetic and reproductive health experts.

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The diet-microbiome connection in inflammatory bowel disease

Dogs with a Crohn’s-like disease fed a special diet were found to have characteristic changes in their gut microbiomes, paralleling changes seen in children with Crohn’s.

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Hormone that helps stabilize blood pressure cuts blood transfusions by half

A Penn study shows that trauma patients with severe blood loss, most often gunshot victims, need only half the usual volume of blood when receiving an arginine vasopressin treatment.

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Many kidneys discarded in the United States would be transplanted in France

A new study, led by Penn Medicine and Paris Transplant Group, found French transplant centers are far more likely to transplant kidneys from older donors.

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