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In the brain, scientists find new clues to treating chronic pain

Salimah Meghani of the School of Nursing says that socioeconomic risk factors and past experiences such as racial stress can have profound impact on the experience of pain.

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Penn Medicine to open new crisis response center at Cedar Avenue facility

As part of a unified mental health care hub at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania–Cedar Avenue, the new model brings together emergency, inpatient, and outpatient psychiatric care on the same campus, creating the health system’s second consolidated mental health care site in Philadelphia.

Penn Medicine is opening a mental health crisis response center at the former Mercy hospital

Penn Medicine is opening a mental health crisis response center at the former Mercy Philadelphia Hospital, replacing one that closed there in 2020.

Penn Medicine to establish mental health care hub at its Cedar Avenue campus

Penn Medicine is establishing a community mental health hub at its Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Cedar Avenue campus, which will be home to a new crisis response center and provide inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care.

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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.

Doctors save life of Chester County baseball coach after suffering stroke

Christopher Favilla of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues helped save the life of a Chester County youth basketball coach who suffered a stroke.

Shift work may harm the health of men more than women

Garret FitzGerald of the Perelman School of Medicine says that there are different exposures in shift work depending on job type.

As more hospitals create police forces, critics warn of pitfalls

Elinore Kaufman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that hospital police forces should be a last resort after better health care staffing, a boost in overall training, and teaching de-escalation skills.

Pancreatic cancer vaccine shows promise in small initial trial

Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine is supportive of findings about a pancreatic cancer vaccine, though he says larger studies are needed to determine effectiveness.

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‘Communities for Childbirth’ in action

President Engagement Prize winner and fourth-year Seungwon ‘Lucy’ Lee is creating a coordinated referral system of first responders, emergency dispatchers, and systemized hospital networks to improve emergency maternal health care in Uganda.

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