Mim Lambros, an equipment planning specialist, is repurposing furniture throughout LG Health facilities. Every April, people worldwide come together to celebrate Earth Day, bringing attention to new ways we can better treat our environment. People working …
Heather and Rich Badt in the summer of 2023 When Heather Badt and her husband learned within a week and a half of each other that they both had cancer, she felt like she had another question every hour. Badt knew she and her husband were in good hands at …
PHILADELPHIA—Methods researchers developed to detect possible depression through language in social media posts don’t appear to work when applied to posts by Black people on social media, according to a new analysis by researchers from Penn’s Perelman …
PHILADELPHIA – Patients being treated for B-cell non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) who are part of minority populations may not have equal access to cutting-edge CAR T cell therapies, according to a new analysis led by researchers from the Perelman School of …
During the second semester of their junior year, most high school students are hunkering down as they prepare to apply to college in the fall: focusing on schoolwork to get their GPA as high as possible, touring college campuses, and building their resumes …
PHILADELPHIA -- For years, it was harder for Black patients to secure a coveted spot on the national kidney transplant waitlist because a clinical algorithm was making Black patients appear healthier than they were. After a Penn Medicine researcher exposed …
Early life seizure-associated neurons (A, red cells) are preferentially re-activated by later life seizures (B, green cells; C, combined). PHILADELPHIA— Only a very small percentage of neurons show changes after an epileptic seizure in mice, but these …
PHILADELPHIA – Human artificial chromosomes (HACs) capable of working within human cells could power advanced gene therapies, including those addressing some cancers, along with many laboratory applications, though serious technical obstacles have hindered …
The Jordan Medical Education Center fifth floor lobby was brimming with giddy nerves and excitement on Match Day—except for the corner nearest the door to the roof garden, where a meltdown was brewing. While his Perelman School of Medicine classmates …
PHILADELPHIA – Antibody responses to new SARS-CoV-2 variant infections and vaccinations are powerfully shaped by prior exposures to earlier SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania …
For over 20 years, Maria Wright, BSN, RN has served others as a nurse, first as an LPN and working her way up to RN in 2020 and BSN in 2022. Now a Rehab Case Manager with the Neuro Recovery program at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, she provides …
PHILADELPHIA— Targeting two brain tumor-associated proteins—rather than one—with CAR T cell therapy shows promise as a strategy for reducing solid tumor growth in patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer, according to …
Vascular surgery patient Debra Samuels, shown here with nurses Sara Tarangelo, left, and Kelsey Long, was always thrilled to receive her favorite Starbucks drink. One day during Debra Samuels’ lengthy stay on the vascular surgery unit at the Hospital of …
Presenters from Penn Medicine’s technology teams will cover items such as AI and planning the introduction of IT when opening a totally new area March 08, 2024 PHILADELPHIA—Members of the teams running and innovating technology used at Penn Medicine will …
Training the body’s own immune system to attack cancer cells is known as immunotherapy and it’s a treatment option that’s been highly effective for many cancer types, including lung cancer and melanoma. However, despite decades of research, immunotherapy …
Brian Capell, MD, an assistant professor of Dermatology, received a $100,000 grant from the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The award will build on Capell’s previous research showing that modulating the types of fatty acids in the diet may prevent the formation …
Michelle and Steve Lengle Since his 2020 diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, Steve Lengle has had good and bad days. The bad days are becoming more frequent as his condition continues to decline, causing debilitating pain, weakness, and fatigue, and …
By Queen Muse The name Edward S. Cooper adorns a bustling internal medicine practice at Penn Medicine in University City. The patients who come for a variety of routine medical care every day might not know the story behind the center’s namesake, but they …
Imagine having a personal health companion by your side, guiding you towards a healthier heart every step of the way. Heart experts at Penn Medicine have created a tool that, they say, can fill that very role through text messaging. Heart disease is the …
PHILADELPHIA—The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine has received a $2.1M grant from PolyBio Research Foundation to expand long COVID research. The grant, issued via PolyBio’s Long COVID Research Consortium (LCRC), will support studies …
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