Health & Medicine

A Penn-led team has revealed a how hydralazine, one of the world’s oldest blood pressure drugs and a mainstay treatment for preeclampsia, works at the molecular level. In doing so, they made a surprising discovery—it can also halt the growth of aggressive brain tumors.

New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.

LDI senior fellow and Penn professor with appointments in the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Annenberg School for Communication Kevin B. Johnson is one of the authors of the new National Academy of Medicine AI code of conduct guide for Health Care.

Penn Vet’s Louise Moncla has tracked H5N1 viruses in North America to better understand the role wild birds play in the current bird flu outbreak.

The Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center has announced two awards for 2025. Ephrat Levy-Lahad of Shaare Zedek Medical Center and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the recipient of the 2025 Basser Global Prize for her BRCA1 and BRCA2-related research. Alan D. D’Andrea of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is awarded the 2025 BRCA Impact Award for his research in in cancer genetics.

A new study from Penn Sleep Medicine analyzes how well five popular sleep medications work and develops guidelines to help doctors treat insomnia, one of the most common and often misunderstood sleep problems.

Nurse leaders from Penn’s School of Nursing are redefining care for barriers to sleep, bringing science, innovation, and empathy to restless patients everywhere.

The endowed program, created from a $2 million gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn President Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle, provides financial aid to equip undergraduate and graduate nursing students with leadership tools and tactics to complement their education.

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the largest specialty nursing association in the world, has made a substantial deposit of historical materials to the School of Nursing’s Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

Penn Nursing’s sixth annual Innovation Accelerator program pitch event expands to include solutions to a foundational challenge: barriers to a healthy workforce for new-to-practice nurses.From Penn Nursing