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Boura Zerbo Reads a book to her newborn in the ICU.

Books, babies, and bonding: How a passion for literacy benefits the hospital’s smallest patients

Whitney Zachritz, an intensive care nursery clinical practice leader at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, spends part of her week in the 38-bed neonatal intensive care unit curating books for parents to read to their newborns.

How Lloyd Austin’s prostate cancer surgery led to hospitalization

Ravi Parikh of the Perelman School of Medicine says that a bowel obstruction after a prostate removal procedure can lead to significant complications if left untreated.

How Penn Medicine is changing the world with mRNA

Vaccines are just the beginning of the potential for messenger RNA, the Nobel Prize-winning technology.

Anthony Fauci and unlocking the biggest mystery in medicine

In an Op-Ed, Michael J. Stephen of the Perelman School of Medicine shares advice gleaned from Anthony Fauci and studies of long COVID for medically addressing chronic fatigue syndrome.

New treatment reverses Alzheimer’s disease signs

According to a preclinical study from Penn Medicine researchers, a molecular compound mimics the effect of natural chaperones that are depleted in the aging brain.

Excessive heat and air pollution are putting farmworkers’ lives at risk

Sameed Khatana of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on fatal heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular events linked to high temperatures.

A Penn program helps uninsured patients get surgeries. They just received funding to expand

Nearly 1,000 Penn Medicine patients have undergone surgery that they had put off—from gallbladder removal to hysterectomies to wound treatments—through a program that pairs patients with “navigators” who help them plan and prepare for a surgery.

$2 billion in UPenn health system profits has supported medical research and teaching in last decade

Penn has plowed $2 billion in profits from its health system into medical research and physician support in the last 10 years, money aimed at supporting such breakthrough work as the mRNA vaccine for which its scientists won a 2023 Nobel Prize.

Apple keeps chasing the ultimate health-tracking watch—but it could take years

Jordana Cohen of the Perelman School of Medicine says that smartwatches for health monitoring are not yet ready for prime time or for clinical use.

Only 35% of people eligible for statins use them, study shows. How do you know if you should be on them?

Alexander C. Fanaroff of the Perelman School of Medicine explains how lowering cholesterol with statins can help reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke.

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