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Health Sciences
The future of nursing care
The future of nursing care
Faculty at Penn’s School of Nursing have created a clinical decision support early warning system that accurately detects patient deterioration.
Brain research could help patients with paralysis move again
Brain research could help patients with paralysis move again
Penn Medicine researchers are using machine learning to study the areas of the brain that control movement.
New tool puts reproductive risk for BRCA carriers into perspective
New tool puts reproductive risk for BRCA carriers into perspective
A team at Penn Medicine has created a resource to help inform reproductive counseling for cancer gene mutation carriers.
Inflammation proteins in saliva mark progression of gum disease
Inflammation proteins in saliva mark progression of gum disease
A new study from Penn Dental Medicine demonstrates the potential usefulness of saliva tests for tracking periodontitis.
Ryan Hospital staff veterinarians on life in emergency services and critical care
Ryan Hospital staff veterinarians on life in emergency services and critical care
Veterinarians at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine share the benefits that a teaching hospital has on animals, students, and pet owners alike.
Generic platinum chemotherapy shortages did not increase deaths
Generic platinum chemotherapy shortages did not increase deaths
A national data analysis finds that short-term mortality was not impacted by the shortage for patients with advanced cancers.
Your brain on beauty
Your brain on beauty
At the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, researchers explore what exactly the brain is doing when it experiences art, and what artists are doing when they create art out of their experiences.
Researchers to advance imaging of Parkinson’s diseases
Researchers to advance imaging of Parkinson’s diseases
A Penn-led collaboration of radiology, computational chemistry, and neurology experts will identify and test new tracers for PET scans to help diagnose and monitor diseases.
Brain tumor organoids accurately model patient response to CAR T cell therapy
Brain tumor organoids accurately model patient response to CAR T cell therapy
Lab-grown tumors respond to cell therapy the same as tumors in the patients’ brains, according to researchers at Penn Medicine.
How a well-being coach is helping health care workers battle burnout
How a well-being coach is helping health care workers battle burnout
In an effort to combat work-related stress among health care workers, a new well-being coach on hand to help staff unload some of their mental burdens and de-stress at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health.
In the News
6ABC.com
Bird flu suspected in deaths of 200 snow geese in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley
Stephen Cole of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that indoor cats are contracting bird flu through raw pet foods of poultry origin or raw milk products.
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Self
The surgeon general calls for new warning labels on alcohol—here’s the truth about how it impacts your health
Henry Kranzler of the Perelman School of Medicine says that alcohol’s effects on the brain are observed more readily because it’s the organ of behavior.
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NPR
Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout
Aaron Richterman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that there are large and underappreciated benefits of cash-transfer programs, such as potentially ending a tuberculosis epidemic.
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Newsweek
Cancer breakthrough as ‘speckles’ may reveal best treatment
A paper co-authored by PIK Professor Shelley Berger finds that patterns of “speckles” in the heart of tumor cells could help predict how patients with a common form of kidney cancer will respond to treatment options.
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Time
Scientists are racing to develop a new bird flu vaccine
Drew Weissman and Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine are testing a vaccine to prevent a strain of H5N1 bird flu in chickens and cattle.
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