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Penn Dental Medicine’s Tina Chou Learns There’s More to Dentistry Than Teeth

Penn Dental Medicine’s Tina Chou Learns There’s More to Dentistry Than Teeth

By Marjorie FerroneWith a craving to “see dentistry beyond the domestic boundaries,” Tina Chou, a second-year student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, seized the opportunity to advance dentistry in The Gambia in a unique internship opportunity this past summer.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Frederick Ding: Penn Ambassador, Leader and Mentor

Frederick Ding: Penn Ambassador, Leader and Mentor

Frederick Ding’s interest in making an impact by improving the lives of others begins with his work on campus assisting fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeanne Leong

Penn Medicine Study Finds No Significant Differences Between Commonly Used Carotid Stenting Systems in U.S.

Penn Medicine Study Finds No Significant Differences Between Commonly Used Carotid Stenting Systems in U.S.

A study conducted by researchers from several institutions, including the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has found similarly low rates of complication and death among U.S. patients who are treated with the three most common systems for placing stents in blocked carotid arteries of the neck.

Jessica Mikulski

Penn Medicine: Unraveling Misfolded Molecules Using "Reprogrammed" Yeast Protein Could Lead to New Brain Disease Therapies

Penn Medicine: Unraveling Misfolded Molecules Using "Reprogrammed" Yeast Protein Could Lead to New Brain Disease Therapies

At the heart of brain diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease is protein misfolding, in which distorted proteins are unable to perform their normal functions. At present, there is no known way to reverse protein misfolding.

Karen Kreeger

Penn HIV Researchers Deploy Large-Scale Intervention Project in South Africa

Penn HIV Researchers Deploy Large-Scale Intervention Project in South Africa

A large-scale human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) intervention/education effort aimed at helping South African men take a proactive role in the prevention of that disease has proven successful, an important development considering that country has the largest number of HIV infections in the world.

Joseph J. Diorio , Kimberly Short

Tweaking MRI to Track Creatine May Spot Heart Problems Earlier, Penn Medicine Study Suggests

Tweaking MRI to Track Creatine May Spot Heart Problems Earlier, Penn Medicine Study Suggests

A new MRI method to map creatine at higher resolutions in the heart may help clinicians and scientists find abnormalities and disorders earlier than traditional diagnostic methods, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggest in a new study published online today in Nature Medicine.

Steve Graff