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Watching Biden, many see the heartbreaking indignities of aging

Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine says that a debate inherently tests an individual’s cognitive abilities of attention, concentration, multitasking, working memory, and language.

Two nurses guiding a prone patient into a proton imaging machine.

The power of protons

Penn Medicine has treated more than 10,000 cancer patients at three proton therapy centers across the region, including the largest and busiest center in the world—while also leading the way in research to expand the healing potential of these positive particles.

A hand liking the text “I got vaccinated!”

Social media use is associated with more frequent vaccination

Researchers from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more social media use actually correlates with more vaccination, but the reasons differ between Democrats and Republicans.

Ashlee Rineer (right) is holding Eleanor who is two years old this month and her partner Lauren (left) is holding Edie.

Welcoming the first babies from Penn Fertility in Lancaster

The Penn Fertility Care practice is the first and only fertility clinic in Lancaster County that has an embryology lab, allowing patients outside of the Philadelphia metro area equal access to the full range of Penn Fertility services and treatments.

What competitive eating does to the body

David Metz of the Perelman School of Medicine explains some of the effects of speed-eating.

New approach accurately identifies medications most toxic to the liver

A Penn Medicine-led study developed a novel approach to using health care data to measure rates of liver injury, as the current method of counting cases is not providing an accurate picture.

Internal view of lungs with a cancerous growth.

Slowing inflammation may boost immunotherapy’s effectiveness against advanced lung cancer

Patients with stage 4 lung cancer show high response rates after an anti-inflammatory drug is added temporarily to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.

She’s fighting to stop the brain disease that killed her mother before it gets her

Kiran Musunuru of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on shutting off genetic signals in the brain to hold off diseases.

Dr. Ala Stanford joins Penn’s staff in three capacities

The founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, Ala Stanford, is joining the staff at Penn. Stanford is best known in Philadelphia for providing African Americans in poorer ZIP codes with access to the COVID-19 vaccine during the height of the pandemic.

Fentanyl overdoses may cause brain injury

Researchers from Penn and the National Institute on Drug Abuse suggest that neurologic and cognitive impairments could interfere with a patient’s ability to engage in addiction treatment.

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