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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
PHILADELPHIA— The majority of genetic studies focus on people of European descent, which limits the understanding of how genes influence health in other populations. Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the …
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, …
In November 2023, Cassie Wolfe had not regained consciousness. Her mother, Ann Louise, spent long, agonizing days by her bed, willing her to wake up and holding on to all hope that she would. The last time the world saw Cassie Wolfe as she used to be—a …
PHILADELPHIA – Douglas B. Cines, MD, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a professor of Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 2024 recipient of the of the Henry M. Stratton Medal …
Travel back in time to 2017—even though it wasn’t that long ago, the world of health care looked different than it does today. This was the year Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health debuted the first Penn Medicine HealthWorks clinic to offer convenient …
PHILADELPHIA— To make someone put their phone down while driving, show them the money—with a catch, according to new research published in JAMA Open. When a group of auto insurance customers were tempted with a cash incentive—and regular feedback letting …
PHILADELPHIA – A potential new treatment for bipolar disorder (BP) that significantly shortens treatment time has emerged, following a randomized clinical trial using accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation (aiTBS). While current theta burst …
By Abby Alten Schwartz There’s a radiance that beams from Kenya Pitt, MA, MBA, chief human resources (HR) officer for Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC). It’s easy to imagine her walking through the hospital, lighting up each person she encounters …
By Ella Eisinger Ella Eisinger Ella Eisinger is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. The essay below was a winner in this year’s American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Building Trust Essay …
The collaborative project aims to uncover the structural and biological changes caused by brain injury that leads to neurodegeneration June 28, 2024 PHILADELPHIA— An international team of researchers led by Penn Medicine will investigate the link between …
