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The best new implants may be a piece of you
Stacy Haley standing near a vase of flowers holding out an arm.

HUP patient Stacy Haley received free-flap reconstruction surgery after receiving a double mastectomy. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

The best new implants may be a piece of you

Innovative techniques like autologous surgery involves implanting patients with something taken from a different part of their body, which eliminates the risk of infection and erosion of synthetic materials.

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Tower Health’s liver and kidney transplant program will move to Penn Medicine

Tower Health’s liver and kidney transplant program will move to Penn Medicine

Tower Health announced Wednesday that instead of closing the liver and kidney transplant program it inherited two years ago from the shuttered Hahnemann University Hospital outright, it will let Penn Medicine take it over. Patient screening and pre- and post-transplant care will continue at Reading Hospital in Berks County, but surgeries will move to Penn’s Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in mid-December.

Brain powered: Neuroscience research at Penn Medicine’s Pavilion
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Brain powered: Neuroscience research at Penn Medicine’s Pavilion

Penn Medicine’s newest inpatient facility will help to foster fundamental neuroscience discoveries and new neurotechnologies by bringing clinical care and neuroscience research closer together.

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Supporting long-haul COVID-19 survivors who still struggle with symptoms
Person lying on back in hospital bed receiving oxygen via a mask.

Supporting long-haul COVID-19 survivors who still struggle with symptoms

Continued care and support from programs like the Post-COVID Assessment and Recovery Clinic and the Penn Neuro COVID Clinic can prove essential to finally returning to a more normal life.

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