A cavernous, walk-through human heart has entertained 70 years of curiosity, from school trips to international visitors. The Franklin Institute’s Giant Heart is an iconic Philadelphia experience that allows visitors to learn the inner workings of one of …
PHILADELPHIA— Patients with disabilities are less likely to feel health care workers treat them respectfully, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, patients with disabilities were …
Communicating through the glass during the early days of the pandemic. All nurses wanted was for COVID to end, and for patients to stop dying. It was nice to have their vigilance at patients’ bedsides be acknowledged, but more than anything, they wished …
PHILADELPHIA— Although the prevalence of diabetes-related eye diseases almost doubled since 2014, the rates of most severe forms of the disease have actually decreased, according to a new study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the …
Ed Crane never imagined that a bout of pneumonia would uncover a ticking time bomb in his chest. Living just outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, the 76-year-old had been quietly raising his nine-year-old grandson alone, a responsibility he took on after …
Three studies led by Perelman School of Medicine faculty were chosen among the nation’s most impactful clinical research publications February 26, 2025 PHILADELPHIA— Three studies led by faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of …
PHILADELPHIA—When doctors teamed with an artificial intelligence tool that “listened” in and took notes on patient visits, the tool significantly decreased the time providers spent interacting with patients’ notes instead of with the patients themselves. …
PHILADELPHIA – A combination of mRNA and a new lipid nanoparticle could help heal damaged lungs, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Viruses, physical trauma, or other problems can have serious …
PHILADELPHIA – Cancer patients spend a lot of time on their care. Meeting with doctors and other members of their health care team, getting labs and other tests, picking up prescriptions, and undergoing treatment all takes time. So does getting to and from …
Staff at CCH celebrate a retirement. Nurse Kirby Cannon says culture is generational, “we joke all the time, we always say that we’re like a family and we truly are.” Three is a great number. When something happens once it can be written off as chance. …
From left to right, Penn Medicine Board Chair Dhan Pai, Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson, donors Catherine and Anthony Clifton, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania CEO Regina Cunningham, University of Pennsylvania Health System CEO Kevin B. …
“Someday, there will be a cure!” For decades, ever since Curt Krouse was a young child with hemophilia B, those hopeful words rang out at the end of an annual fashion show that his mother, Sandy, co-hosted as part of a hard-working committee to benefit the …
Researchers suggest changes in kidney transplant care and monitoring February 10, 2025 PHILADELPHIA— More than 90% of the adult population in the U.S. is or has been infected with Epstein Barr virus (EBV). EBV is a highly contagious member of the herpes …
PHILADELPHIA – Over 1,000 genes may serve as possible treatment targets for individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study, published in Science, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. By creating …
PHILADELPHIA— Individuals diagnosed with several types of headache disorders – ranging from mild-to-moderate to severe – attempt and complete suicide at higher rates than those without headache diagnoses, according to new research from the Perelman School …
Jax Bari, an 11-year-old from Philadelphia, shows me a photo of himself. It’s hard to look at; in it, he’s sprawled out on the bathroom floor, sad, exhausted. He says, just hours earlier, he had accidentally consumed gluten while out to eat with his family …
PHILADELPHIA— After combing through 4,000 existing medications, an artificial intelligence tool helped uncover one that saved the life of a patient with idiopathic multicentric Castleman’s disease (iMCD). This rare disease has an especially poor survival …
PHILADELPHIA— Within a large group of more than 700 patients treated with CAR T cell therapy, researchers found no evidence that the therapy itself caused any type of secondary cancer in the modified T cells, according to new analysis reported today in …
PHILADELPHIA— Seven physician-scientists from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, joining one of the nation’s oldest …
Yvette Sheline, MD, McLure Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Research Early in her academic journey, Yvette Sheline, MD, who is now the McLure Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Research in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of …
