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A new study, led by Penn Medicine, reveals that this genetic cause of heart failure, which is now treatable, is significantly underdiagnosed.
As the traveling season gets underway, experts Diane Spatz and Elizabeth Froh offer advice for breastfeeding and pumping on trains, planes, and automobiles.
Glen Casey will be the first to admit it: He wasn’t the perfect student in high school. “I was always doing the dumbest things; getting into fights, getting arrested,” he says. A student then at University City High, Casey failed ninth grade, and barely passed 10th. “I just really wasn’t into school,” he says.
Blood pressure monitoring is evolving for more convenience, comfort and accessibility, and may feature innovative methods, like customized “smart” sneakers, or by taking a two-minute video selfie.
The antibiotic vancomycin alters the gut microbiome in a way that can help prime the immune system to more effectively attack tumor cells after radiation therapy.
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A Penn study shows developing brain networks support cognition in youth, from decision-making and self-control to complex thought.
Sigrid Veasey and Zachary Zamore of the Perelman School of Medicine found that, when mice were kept awake for just a couple of hours more than usual each day, two key parts of the brain were notably affected.
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Diane Spatz of the School of Nursing is interviewed on a breast milk bank she established and on her research on lactation and breastfeeding.
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Mark Neuman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that patients who received spinal anesthesia received fewer opioids in the operating room, but they ended up needing more prescription pain medication use after surgery.
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Katalin Kariko of the Perelman School of Medicine is named one of the winners of the 2022 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for the research that laid the foundation for messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines.
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J. Russell Ramsay of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on how a weakened working memory is a facet of ADHD.
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