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Published on September 3, 2024 - 17:06 GMT

Penn’s $18 Million AIRFoundry to Revolutionize RNA Research

PHILADELPHIA – In a typical foundry, raw materials like steel and copper are melted down and poured into molds to assume new shapes and functions. The U.S. National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA Foundry (NSF AIRFoundry), led by the …

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Published on September 3, 2024 - 17:06 GMT

Semaglutide and mental health

PHILADELPHIA— Taking the weight loss medication semaglutide did not increase the risk of depressive symptoms, suicidal thoughts, or suicidal behavior in persons without known major mental health disorders, according to a new study led by researchers from …

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Published on August 29, 2024 - 17:00 GMT

Combo immunotherapy makes waves of cancer-fighting T cells

PHILADELPHIA – A new tool for monitoring immune health patterns over time has revealed how a pair of checkpoint inhibitor therapies works together to recruit new cancer-fighting T cells with every infusion. Findings from the use of the new tool, developed …

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Published on August 29, 2024 - 17:00 GMT

Magical moments when Penn holds two hospital weddings in one week

A hospital might not be anyone’s ideal wedding venue. But for two patients and their families at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) Pavilion, nurses and staff helped dreams come true by facilitating two weddings in the same week. Nursing …

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Published on August 27, 2024 - 16:01 GMT

The road to recovery begins at home

Charlotte Gordon expected a long recovery after her knee replacement surgery. But before she could even get started down that road, she faced a more immediate problem: How would she climb the 11 steps to her front door, only hours after surgery? That was …

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Published on August 21, 2024 - 18:33 GMT

Penn Medicine and Parker Institute renew alliance

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) have renewed their collaboration to advance cancer immunotherapy research at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center (ACC). The renewal comes as PICI …

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Published on August 20, 2024 - 19:19 GMT

Keeping calm in case of catastrophe

Medical staff simulate treating a patient with an extremely contagious illness during a biohazard training drill. A young man groans as hospital staff in full biomedical hazard protection suits wheel him into a decontamination tent. They cut off his shirt …

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Published on August 20, 2024 - 19:17 GMT

NIH Awards $6.9 Million for Potential Alzheimer’s Treatment

This illustration shows tau protein (red) becoming detached from a microtubule (blue). A new compound discovered by researchers at UC San Diego and University of Pennsylvania may be able to treat Alzheimer's disease by normalizing microtubule structure …

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Published on August 15, 2024 - 18:26 GMT

Penn Medicine, 76ers Restore Community Basketball Court

PHILADELPHIA— The familiar summer rumble of basketballs dribbled on asphalt filled the air today as local children got their first chance to play on a basketball court refurbished through the partnership between Penn Medicine and the Philadelphia 76ers. …

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Published on August 14, 2024 - 20:11 GMT

UPHS and Doylestown Health Sign Definitive Agreement

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) and Doylestown Health signed a definitive agreement today for the Bucks County health system to become part of Penn Medicine, strengthening the two organizations’ shared commitment to …

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Published on August 13, 2024 - 16:14 GMT

A ‘Tooth Fairy’ teams up to help cancer patients get dental care

Colleagues of Abramson Cancer Center oncology nurse navigator Margaret “Peg” Rummel MHA, RN, HONN-CG, nicknamed her “the Tooth Fairy.” That’s because she had collected so many resources to get head and neck cancer patients the dental care they needed …

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Published on August 6, 2024 - 13:11 GMT

Dialogue across differences: A Q&A with Roy H. Hamilton, MD

A multiracial Black and Asian self-described secular humanist, who was raised as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and is now in an interracial, interfaith marriage, walked into a Passover seder. It’s not the setup for a groaner of a joke, or an epic fail of an …

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Published on August 2, 2024 - 19:08 GMT

Black Americans injured by firearms 10 times more than whites

PHILADELPHIA— Black Americans experienced nonfatal firearm injuries 10 times more frequently than White Americans in 2019 and 2020, according to research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, published today in Annals of …

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Published on July 30, 2024 - 22:07 GMT

Improving care for patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia

The first time Becky Yu saw the Philadelphia skyline lit up at night was the evening she and her husband, Brian Currie, drove from their home in Delaware to Penn Medicine to begin her treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a type of blood cancer …

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Published on July 29, 2024 - 23:01 GMT

To Get Drivers to Put Down Their Phones, Make it a Game

PHILADELPHIA— If you’re trying to keep drivers from picking up their phones, make it a game, according to a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) study led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of …

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Published on July 25, 2024 - 19:50 GMT

How Penn Medicine teams stepped up when computers went down

Mike Tomasetti, a nurse manager at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, stood at this nurse’s station for most of the day assisting the staff with paper orders. “Everything you can think of, from admitting the patient to discharging them and everything in …

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Published on July 25, 2024 - 19:50 GMT

How a Bacterium Supports Healing of Chronic Diabetic Wounds

PHILADELPHIA – There are many important reasons for keeping cuts and sores clean, but new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows that a certain bug, Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis), can facilitate healing …

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Published on July 23, 2024 - 15:56 GMT

The key to nursing across three continents? Empathy

Abheena Jacob, BSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC, an award-winning night shift nurse in Pennsylvania Hospital’s Medical-Surgical unit, joined Penn Medicine in 2017. Her nursing experience spans over 18 years and three continents, beginning nearly 8,000 miles away in …

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Published on July 19, 2024 - 23:38 GMT

Knockout of CD5 on CAR T Cells Boosts Anti-Tumor Efficacy

PHILADELPHIA – The effectiveness of CAR T cell therapy against a variety of cancers, including solid tumors, could be boosted greatly by using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to knock out the gene for CD5, a protein found on the surface of T cells, according to a …

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Published on July 18, 2024 - 21:16 GMT

Neha Vapiwala, MD, named president-elect of ASTRO

PHILADELPHIA – The members of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) have selected Neha Vapiwala, MD, FACR, FASTRO, FASCO, the Eli Glatstein Professor in Radiation Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, …

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