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Mayo ‘mini brains’ offer new ways to understand addiction

Peggy Compton of the School of Nursing says that addiction is complex and difficult to reduce to one brain lobe because it involves environmental factors and multiple pathways.

Doctor in lab pointing to ultrasound images of a uterus.

How one doctor-patient relationship could change how women are treated for gynecologic cancers

In appreciation for her cancer treatment team led by Neil Taunk, patient Dalia Jakas established a fund to empower Taunk’s research into how treatment can be improved for uterine cancers like the one she experienced.

The quality and management of penicillin allergy labels in pediatric primary care

A study by Yun Li and Jeffrey S. Gerber of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues finds that penicillin allergy documentation is uninformative, with children infrequently referred to allergists.

‘Part of the job’: UPenn med school teaches future physicians how to advocate for their patients in public health arena

Mario DeMarco of the Perelman School of Medicine is teaching the accelerated Frontiers in Public Health course, featuring experts like Elinore Kaufman, to bridge the education gap between public health and medical care for soon-to-be-physicians.

African American senior citizen in a wheelchair with a group of people in the background playing a game.

Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts

According to a new Penn study, inequities in socioeconomic resources is the main cause of biological aging as measured by DNA methylation.

New algorithm detects autism in infants. How might that change care?

According to David Mandell of the Perelman School of Medicine, the most important contribution of the Duke University algorithm keyed toward infant autism is its risk detection within the first 30 days of a child’s health care experience.

She was told she could never have kids. After a rare uterus transplant, she just had her second son

Kathleen O’Neill of the Perelman School of Medicine describes the journey of patient Chelsea Jovanovich, who just had her second baby thanks to a rare uterus transplant at Penn Medicine in 2021.

Health experts want FDA safety review of fast-tracked Alzheimer’s drug

Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine says that an independent panel needs to meet to discuss the use of beta amyloid PET scans to support a drug’s accelerated approval.

FDA: Base blood donation policy on science, not stigma

In an Op-Ed, Scott Jelinek of the Leonard Davis Institute and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia urges the FDA to remove its restriction on blood donation by gay and bisexual men.

An even deadlier pandemic could soon be here

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine says that mRNA vaccines can be mass-produced faster than normal, in as little as three months.

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