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Penn: Photodynamic Therapy Added to Lung-Sparing Surgery Improves Survival for Mesothelioma Patients

    • Penn: Photodynamic Therapy Added to Lung-Sparing Surgery Improves Survival for Mesothelioma Patients

    Among patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma, treatment with lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) yielded unusually long survival rates, with median survival rates up to two or more years longer than is reported with traditional treatments, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the Univ

    Jessica Mikulski

    State-of-the-art Large Animal Care at Penn Vet’s Moran Critical Care Center

    • State-of-the-art Large Animal Care at Penn Vet’s Moran Critical Care Center

    The goal of a hospital it to make patients well, but hospital-acquired infections can result in just the opposite. That’s why infection control has become a top priority in medical facilities — and, increasingly, in veterinary settings as well.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Penn Researchers Recognized for Improving Nanotech Design Principles

    • Penn Researchers Recognized for Improving Nanotech Design Principles

    PHILADELPHIA — Targeted drug delivery is one of the more enticing applications of nanotechnology; by designing pharmaceuticals on an atomic scale, engineers hope to get them attacking diseases with newfound precision and efficiency.

    Evan Lerner

    Penn Medicine Research Challenges Concept That Raising HDL Helps Counter Heart-attack Risk

    • Penn Medicine Research Challenges Concept That Raising HDL Helps Counter Heart-attack Risk

    A new study published by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Broad Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital, challenges the conventional concept that raising a person's HDL levels (good cholesterol) will always help lower their risk of a heart attack.

    Jessica Mikulski

    FDA-approved Drug Makes Established Cancer Vaccine Work Better, Penn Study Finds

    • FDA-approved Drug Makes Established Cancer Vaccine Work Better, Penn Study Finds

    A team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania found that the FDA-approved drug daclizumab improved the survival of breast cancer patients taking a cancer vaccine by 30 percent, compared to those patients not taking

    Karen Kreeger

    Penn-Developed Medical Record Tool Cuts Down on ER CT Scans in Patients With Abdominal Pain

    • Penn-Developed Medical Record Tool Cuts Down on ER CT Scans in Patients With Abdominal Pain

    A new electronic medical record tool that tallies patients' previous radiation exposure from CT scans helps reduce potentially unnecessary use of the tests among emergency room patients with abdominal pain, according to a study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that will be presented to

    Holly Auer

    Black Cardiac Victims Less Apt to Receive CPR and Shocks to the Heart from Bystanders, Penn Study Shows

    • Black Cardiac Victims Less Apt to Receive CPR and Shocks to the Heart from Bystanders, Penn Study Shows

    Black cardiac arrest victims who are stricken outside hospitals are less likely to receive bystander CPR and defibrillation on the scene than white patients, according to research that will be presented by a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today at the annual meeting of

    Holly Auer