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Fly’s Blood-Brain Barrier Has Circadian Rhythms
The Scientist

Fly’s Blood-Brain Barrier Has Circadian Rhythms

Amita Sehgal of the Perelman School of Medicine led a research team in an investigation which used fruit flies to explore the chronobiological effects of circadian rhythms on drug administration.

Can Ride-hailing Companies Cure Medical Transportation Woes?
ABC News

Can Ride-hailing Companies Cure Medical Transportation Woes?

Krisda Chaiyachati of the Perelman School of Medicine authored a study which utilized Lyft to transport Medicaid patients to primary care appointments. He found that few people accepted the rides, leading to no significant decrease in missed appointments.

Scientists Isolate Human Lung Progenitor Cells That Repair Alveolar Damage
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Scientists Isolate Human Lung Progenitor Cells That Repair Alveolar Damage

Edward E. Morrisey, of the Perelman School of Medicine, has co-authored a paper on lung stem cells in mice and humans, which may lead to the development of new strategies for human lung regeneration.

Plagued by the flu: managing influenza in 1918 and today
Penn Nursing ward in Penn Medicine

A women’s ward in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, circa 1903. Patients unable to pay for their hospital care would’ve come to such a place. When the flu pandemic arrived 15 years later, HUP was at the forefront of providing care to the city.

Plagued by the flu: managing influenza in 1918 and today

A hundred years ago, the flu pandemic hit Philadelphia. Today, Penn researchers are working to prevent a future outbreak.

Katherine Unger Baillie, Michele W. Berger

Improvements in mortality rates are slowed by rise in obesity in the United States

    • Improvements in mortality rates are slowed by rise in obesity in the United States

    With countless medical advances and efforts to curb smoking, one might expect that life expectancy in the United States would improve. Yet according to recent studies, there’s been a reduction in the rate of improvement in American mortality during the past three decades.

    Ali Sundermier

    Weekly Fish Consumption Linked to Better Sleep, Higher IQ

    • Weekly Fish Consumption Linked to Better Sleep, Higher IQ

    Children who eat fish at least once a week sleep better and have IQ scores that are 4 points higher, on average, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania published in Scientific Reports.

    Michele W. Berger

    LGBQ adolescents at much greater risk of suicide than heterosexual counterparts

    • LGBQ adolescents at much greater risk of suicide than heterosexual counterparts

    Specifically, 40 percent of sexual-minority adolescents seriously considered suicide compared to 15 percent of their heterosexual counterparts, and nearly a quarter attempted suicide compared to approximately 6 percent of those in the sexual majority.

    Michele W. Berger