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| Jul 7, 2026 | Учёные впервые создали с нуля синтетическую клетку, которая растёт и делится | Учёные создали синтетическую клетку, похожую на живую больше, чем все предыдущие, когда-либо созданные — это подтверждение концепции, согласно которой в лабораторных условиях можно вдохнуть жизнь в неживую материю или создать нечто, близкое... |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Doctors increasingly see AI scribes in a positive light. But hiccups persist | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Michelle Andrews, KFF Health News
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FDA to reassess the safety of BHA, a preservative u... |
| Jan 28, 2026 | RTW Foundation Gives $8 Million To Overhaul Physician Training At Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine | A landmark $8 million gift from the RTW Foundation will launch a major effort to redesign the curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, aimed at preparing future physicians for a rapidly changing clini... |
| Dec 14, 2025 | Asking Eric: After 30 years, company’s cold retirement sendoff stings | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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One year after my retirement I am still feeling confused and hurt for not receiving a “retirement gift” from my long-time employers. I worked for a family-owned realty company for nearly... |
| Nov 22, 2025 | What the air you breathe may be doing to your brain | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Paula Span, KFF Health News
For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairmen... |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Myrio Therapeutics Announces Collaboration with Leading Research Institutions to Advance Solid Tumor T cell Immunotherapeutics | Myrio Therapeutics, the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and NYU Langone Health have entered a research collaboration to accelerate the development of next-generation T cell immunotherapies
Partnership with T cell exp... |
| May 21, 2025 | 2025 Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to pioneers of CAR T-cell therapy | Four biomedical innovators — Carl June, Bruce Levine, Isabelle Rivière, and Michel Sadelain — have been jointly awarded the 2025 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy,... |
| May 9, 2025 | Families formed via uterus transplant celebrate motherhood | Laughter, shrieks, and cries filled Louie-Louie, a restaurant on the edge of Penn’s campus. It’s a symphony of discordant sounds, familiar to parents or anyone who’s been to a playground recently.
This morning, it’s music.
A week before Mot... |
| May 8, 2025 | Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma | PHILADELPHIA – A next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including commercially available CAR ... |
| Apr 28, 2025 | New Medicare program could cut drug cost–if patients enroll | PHILADELPHIA – Even for patients covered by Medicare, annual out-of-pocket costs for lifesaving cancer treatments taken in pill form have often exceeded $10,000—until recently. Thanks to changes in Medicare Part D introduced by the Inflatio... |
| Apr 26, 2025 | Penn at the 2025 American Urological Association Meeting | LAS VEGAS – Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will be presenting to fellow clinicians and scientists at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada April 26-29, 20... |
| Apr 21, 2025 | COVID vaccine protected kids from long COVID | PHILADELPHIA—Unvaccinated children and adolescents were up to 20 times more likely to develop long COVID than their vaccinated peers, according to new research led by a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylv... |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Soon-to-be Penn MD grads map future plans near and far | For longtime faculty and staff at Penn Medicine, Match Day never gets old.
Staff spend the morning decorating the Atrium in the Jordan Medical Education Center with balloons and prepping photo booth props, mounting a map of the United State... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | The connected, creative innovator | By: Christina Hernandez Sherwood
Nearly two decades into her tenure at Penn, Raina Merchant leads teams transforming health care for better patient, clinician, and community experiences.
Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP, realized early in her caree... |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Understanding how laughing gas can fight depression | Although a plethora of medications and therapies now exist for major depression, roughly one in three diagnosed patients still suffer from treatment-resistant depression (TRD) — a form of the disorder that does not respond to first-line ant... |
| Apr 2, 2025 | CAREs grant helps patients share their own health care story | Isabel Yoon (left) and Jenn Guo (right)
PHILADELPHIAâHospitals, some of the busiest places, can also be among the loneliest.Â
Amid the din of care teams and clinicians, security and custodial teams, those dealing with illness and hospital... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Why is Philadelphia called the Cellicon Valley? | Bruce Levine, PhD. Photo credit: Ed Cunicelli Photographer Inc.
You’ve probably heard of “Silicon Valley” in California. But did you know that the Philadelphia region is the home of “Cellicon Valley”?
Bruce Levine, PhD, a scientist in Penn’... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | DNA-LNPs: A Safer, Longer-Lasting Gene Therapy Breakthrough | PHILADELPHIA— A breakthrough in safely delivering therapeutic DNA to cells could transform treatment for millions suffering from common chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. A new process that transports DNA into cells ... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Meniscus injuries may soon be treated by customizable hydrogel | A new 3D-printed customizable hydrogel performed well in preclinical trials with several different types of meniscal tears March 25, 2025
PHILADELPHIA— Meniscus tears are common knee injuries that have long frustrated patients and doctors d... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Immunotherapy boosts KRAS-targeted therapy in pancreatic cancer | PHILADELPHIA – Adding immunotherapy to a new type of inhibitor that targets multiple forms of the cancer-causing gene mutation KRAS kept pancreatic cancer at bay in preclinical models for significantly longer than the same targeted therapy ... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Transformational gift to accelerate Penn Medicine care | 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 Syste... |
| Feb 6, 2025 | Scientists pursue mRNA vaccines to stop celiac disease | 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... |
| Jan 31, 2025 | Preparing tomorrow’s behavioral health researchers | 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 Un... |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Китайцы вывели мышей от двух самцов – мышата дожили до взрослого возраста | Изменив 20 участков генома, учёные успешно вывели мышей с двумя родителями-самцами и вырастили их до зрелого возраста
Некоторые из «би-отцовских» мышей, полученных в ходе эксперимента, которые дожили до взрослого возраста.
Учёные из Китая п... |
| Jan 22, 2025 | The Art of Precision: Celebrating Excellence in Oculofacial and Aesthetic Surgery | In the world of medicine, few accolades shine as brightly as the Castle Connolly Top Doctor recognition. This honor is not merely a badge; it is a testament to skill, dedication, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Two surgeons, Dr. Kia... |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Researchers develop guidelines to diagnose common memory disorder | PHILADELPHIA— New guidelines will help doctors identify patients with a common memory-loss syndrome that is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease in older adults. The diagnostic criteria for limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encepha... |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Penn Medicine names Pari V. Pandharipande Chair of Radiology | PHILADELPHIA— Pari V. Pandharipande, MD, MPH, FACR, a nationally renowned physician-scientist at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center, has been named Chair of the department of Radiology at Penn Medi... |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Top Utah Oculofacial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Kian Eftekhari recognized as a 2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctor | Dr. Kian Eftekhari
Known for his skilled, patient-tailored approach, Dr. Eftekhari excels in both reconstructive and aesthetic surgeries.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Dr. Kian Eftekhari, an oculofacial plastic surgeon... |
| Jan 10, 2025 | Using AI to uncover hospital patients’ long COVID care needs | PHILADELPHIA— Across the United States, no hospital is the same. Equipment, staffing, technical capabilities, and patient populations can all differ. So, while the profiles developed for people with common conditions may seem universal, the... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Genetic testing for risk of opioid misuse remains unproven | PHILADELPHIA—Opioid misuse and specifically opioid use disorder (OUD), continues to represent a significant U.S. public health threat, with more than 6 million Americans aged 12 and older meeting the criteria for OUD in 2022. Efforts to eas... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | A pioneering project to study the human virome puzzle | PHILADELPHIA – For over a decade, scientists have studied the microbiome, the environment of microorganisms that live on and in the body, and how it affects health and disease. Much less is known about a part of the microbiome called the vi... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | New CAREs grants behind Penn Medicine volunteer projects | Winter boots ready for donation. Photo: Melissa Kulynych
PHILADELPHIA—The foundation of health care is strengthened by those who deliver that care, particularly by those who supplement their work through voluntary action. 37 Penn Medicine s... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | The compassionate team behind CAR T cancer breakthroughs | By: Nicole Sweeney Etter From left, research coordinator Nicolas Sarmiento, project manager Reenie Martins, research coordinator Lee Dengel, and trial sample coordinator Rutendo Manyeka document and prepare paperwork required for T-cell inf... |
| Dec 31, 2024 | Two health startups receive Penn Medicine-Wharton funds | The startups receiving the latest investments from the Fund for Health seek to address workplace burnout and racial inequity in maternal care December 31, 2024
PHILADELPHIA— Two new companies will each receive a $250,000 investment from the... |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Precision Neuroscience: $102 Million (Series C) Raised For Advancing AI-Based Brain Implant | Brain–computer interface (BCI) company Precision Neuroscience announced the closing of a $102 million Series C funding round led by General Equity Holdings, with participation from firms including B Capital; Duquesne Family Office, the inve... |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Researchers to advance imaging of Parkinson’s diseases | PHILADELPHIA— A Penn Medicine-led consortium of radiology and chemistry researchers across the United States will advance imaging of diseases like Parkinson’s by testing radiotracers they identified that illuminate α-synuclein (αSyn) or 4R ... |
| Dec 7, 2024 | Keto diet metabolite may power up CAR T cells to kill cancer | SAN DIEGO – A simple dietary supplement may provide a new approach to boost CAR T cell function, according to a study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer ... |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Penn Medicine partners with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs | First-of-its-kind deal covers purchases of generic drugs dispensed through Penn Medicine retail pharmacies December 06, 2024
PHILADELPHIA – Penn Medicine has partnered with Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company through its innovative Cos... |
| Dec 3, 2024 | Penn Medicine and IBX Announce New Long-Term Agreement | PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) and Independence Blue Cross (IBX) have reached a long-term agreement on reimbursement rates for a new contract renewal, which would take effect on July 1, 2025. The agreeme... |
| Nov 22, 2024 | Health Care Reviews Tank Following COVID Pandemic | PHILADELPHIA— After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, online reviews of health care facilities dropped significantly, and they have not yet fully recovered, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at th... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Penn’s patriotic mission to train Navy medical staff | “This time, let’s make sure we remove the neck brace, since last time we did it too late, and missed critical information,” calls out Lieutenant Rachel Robek, PA, a physician assistant in the Division of Trauma. The rest of the group, an Em... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Psoriasis Patients Likely to Use Light Therapy Treatment at Home | PHILADELPHIA –For decades, people with psoriasis have been treated in clinics with narrowband ultraviolet B phototherapy, or light therapy, to reduce sores, scales, and inflammation. Now, new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | Six Penn experts elected to National Academy of Medicine | PHILADELPHIA—Six experts from the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Leaders in the fields of cardiology, nursing,... |
| Oct 4, 2024 | A year after the Nobel Prize, Penn’s mRNA research is revving up | In the early hours of October 2, 2023, the phones of Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, rang out like bells celebrating the ultimate recognition of their life’s work: modified mRNA as a tool to treat and prevent disease. On th... |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Access to geriatric care in eastern PA with $5M grant | PHILADELPHIA— Adults over 65 and their families in eastern Pennsylvania will have greater access to geriatric care thanks to a $5 million Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) grant from the federal Health Resources & Services... |
| Oct 1, 2024 | $18M grant investigates Cognitive decline in Lewy body diseases | PHILADELPHIA—Penn Medicine researchers will advance their understanding of the underlying causes of cognitive decline in individuals with Lewy body diseases, like Parkinson’s, and identify biomarkers that predict which individuals are more ... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Katalin Karikó Named to Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania | PHILADELPHIA –Co-Nobel Prize winner and mRNA vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó, PhD, an adjunct professor of Neurosurgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania was inducted to the Distinguished Daughters of Penns... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | How Next-Gen Sleep Monitoring Can Help Children and Adolescents Achieve Academic Success | Jae-Eun Lee, CEO and Founder of bitsensing
It’s no secret that sleep is crucial for children’s health and academic performance. A good night’s rest enhances cognitive functions like memory and problem-solving, which are vital for learning a... |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Health | How AI can help researchers make esophageal cancer less deadly | This is why only about 20% of Americans with esophageal cancer are still alive five years after their diagnosis. To improve on that figure, doctors say they don’t necessarily need better medicines. What they need are better ways to find the... |
| Aug 20, 2024 | 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 micr... |
| Aug 15, 2024 | 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 Philad... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | 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 com... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | 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 toda... |
| Jul 29, 2024 | 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 Univ... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | 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, ... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | 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 o... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | The Importance of Diversity in Understanding Health Disparities | 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 Pennsy... |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Find Lentiviral Gene Transfer Improves Human Alpha Globin Production for the Treatment of Alpha Thalassemia | Innovative model highlights potential platform to develop novel therapies
PHILADELPHIA, July 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medici... |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Potential new strategy for advanced lung cancer | Slowing inflammation may boost immunotherapy’s effectiveness against advanced lung cancer
High response rates for patients with stage 4 lung cancer after anti-inflammatory drug added temporarily to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy
PHILAD... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Doctoring Beyond the Walls of Hospitals Builds Trust and Loyal Patients: How One Doctor Does It and Saves Lives | How One Doctor Does It and Saves Lives
Some might think it impossible to land an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. After all, only 5% of research submissions are accepted each year, and that's worldwide. Dr. Sylvia Owusu-... |
| Jun 11, 2024 | DoH and Penn Medicine to expand collaboration on translational research and second labs in Abu Dhabi | ABU DHABI, UAE, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector, signed a second Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pe... |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Stroke risk increases in individuals with multiple head injuries | Stroke risk increases in individuals with multiple head injuries, Penn research finds June 04, 2024
PHILADELPHIA— The rate of stroke in individuals with no history of prior stroke, was 34 percent higher in individuals who experienced at lea... |
| Jun 1, 2024 | ASCO: New ‘Armored’ CAR produces significant responses | The “armored” huCART19-IL18 is an anti-CD19 CAR that was further modified to secrete the pro-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin 18 (IL 18).
CHICAGO – While CAR T cell therapy has revolutionized treatment for many blood cancers, including no... |
| May 6, 2024 | Biomolecular Atlas for Bone Marrow to Offer Unprecedented Window into Blood Production | PHILADELPHIA, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania revealed a powerful new bone marrow atlas that will offer the pub... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Health | Why are Black people more likely to develop glaucoma? Scientists discover new clues | Tom Avril | The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
A team led by University of Pennsylvania scientists has discovered three genetic variants that offer the first strong clues as to why glaucoma disproportionately affects Black people.
The variants... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Rare Disease Advocates Learn to Accelerate Therapeutic Development at 9th RARE Drug Development Symposium | RARE Drug Development Symposium
The RARE Drug Development Symposium, hosted by Global Genes and the Orphan Disease Center of the University of Pennsylvania, equips advocates with the knowledge, skills and connections they need to advance th... |
| Mar 9, 2024 | The Light Treatment Effectiveness (LITE) Study Reveals Groundbreaking Data on the Effectiveness of Phototherapy | Research Demonstrates that Home Phototherapy is Non-Inferior to Office Phototherapy, with Excellent Effectiveness and Safety in Real World Settings ALEXANDRIA, VA, UNITED STATES, March 9, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Groundbreaking data prese... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | $50 Million Gift To University Of Pennsylvania For Autoimmune Disease Research | The University of Pennsylvania has received s $50 million gift for the study of autoimmune diseases. ... [+] getty |
| Sep 21, 2022 | University Of Pennsylvania Receives $55 Million Gift To Study, Treat Hereditary Cancers | The University of Pennsylvania will use a $55 million gift to create a new institute focused on ... [+] hereditary cancers. getty |
| May 19, 2022 | Building And Sustaining A Winning Culture In Healthcare: Lessons Learned From Harvard’s Joel Katz | Harvard’s Joel Katz has much to teach anyone who is building or sustaining high-performing teams. Brigham and Women’s Department of Medicine |
| Feb 24, 2022 | UPenn Doctor Successfully Relieves Respiratory Distress in COVID Patients with New Device | “People need to be willing to learn and determined to try instead of defaulting to methods they already know,” Dr. Cereda said. “It can be difficult to introduce a new device like this, but ultimately it’s better for our patients, and that’... |
| Feb 21, 2022 | Intel Technology Roadmaps and Milestones | Jessel Thomas, Tech Times 21 February 2022, 01:02 am
At Intel's 2022 Investor Meeting, Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger and Intel's business leaders outlined key elements of the company's strategy and path for long-term ... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Autism at work: How you can support neurodivergent employees through DEI practices | Lauren Ancona has always hated working in offices.
While employed by local government’s open data office a few years back, she would often hide away in another department to do deep work. She liked her colleagues and her job, but the busy a... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | Snoring too much? 5 causes of snoring and how to treat each one | If you don’t get at least seven hours of sleep, you may be at a higher risk of snoring. Tim Kitchen/Getty Images
The causes of snoring include a deviated septum, sleep apnea, and sleep deprivation.
Sleeping on your back can also cause snori... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Why Do I Wake Up So Hungry in the Middle of the Night? | It’s 2 a.m. You’ve been asleep for a few hours, but, suddenly, you wake up hungry and desperate for a snack (at least), so you head to the kitchen. Nearly everyone is familiar with this scenario as a once-in-a-while thing, but what about wh... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Gene screenings hold disease clues, but unexplained anomalies often raise fears | Tran knew she had an elevated risk of developing breast cancer because of her family history — her mother died of the disease and a maternal aunt was diagnosed and survived. Given this, she planned to follow the standard recommendations to ... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | How Temple, Drexel and Penn predict which technologies will pilot the future | Higher education institutions must always be looking toward to future, while modernizing their practices to help students best prepare for their professional futures. That’s especially true for the region’s tech programs.
These train studen... |
| Dec 12, 2020 | Genes May Hold Key To New Treatments For Covid-19 Infections | Dr. Kenneth Baillie in the ICU Duncan Paxton |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Many highly successful people wake up early with no alarm — a sleep expert explains how anyone can learn to master the habit | Oprah rises without an alarm.
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Dr. Mike Dow is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author.
Many powerful and important people wake up early — and they do it without alarms.
Waking up early h... |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Improving Cyber-Oriented Education, One Cyber Clinic at a Time | Cybersecurity talent gaps continue to exist across the United States, yet private sector leaders and the federal government have not been able to make the meaningful investments necessary to fill the more than half a million current vacanc... |
| Jun 6, 2020 | Beyond words: medical institutions must act to support Black lives | Oleoresin capsicum spray, better known as pepper spray, is a chemical weapon made from concentrated chili pepper extracts. In addition to causing intense pain and irritation of the eyes, respiratory tract, and skin, pepper spray can cause c... |
| May 29, 2020 | American Airlines Flight Attendant Banned from Wearing Face Shield Despite Being Effective Protection Against COVID-19 | CJ Robles, Tech Times 29 May 2020, 03:05 am
An American Airlines flight attendant claimed that she was not allowed to wear a face shield because it does not fit in with American Airlines' "image standards," according to a rep... |
| Oct 18, 2019 | Accelerators targeting medtech companies | They include MedTech Innovator, The TMCx Accelerator, Insight Accelerator Labs and KOA Accel
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions,... |
| Sep 10, 2019 | Fundraising in academia and the Epstein problem | In the high-rolling context of academic philanthropy and fundraising, convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein made gifts to elite universities, including Harvard and MIT, that were modest in size and impact. Had his sordid crimes and rece... |
| Feb 19, 2019 | We Asked Experts if CBD-Spiked Foods Do Anything at All | A few months ago, during a pit stop at my local café, I noticed a new item on the menu: CBD cold brew.
Now, I normally avoid cold brew, which transforms me into a jittery, agitated wreck. But I had heard about the potential calming properti... |
| Nov 26, 2018 | Nvidia’s Clara health care platform and medical imaging SDKs hit general availability | Health care remains one of the fastest-growing markets for artificially intelligent (AI) applications and services, with an overall value that’s expected to reach $6.6 billion by 2021. It’s easy to see why: AI systems can analyze ultrasound... |
| Oct 1, 2018 | In rare case, patient developed resistance to CAR-T after cancer cell began hiding in ‘plain sight’ | To make CAR-T therapies, the pioneering cancer treatments, scientists introduce a gene into the body’s immune cells that turns them into cancer-homing attackers. But in one case described by scientists Monday, the gene was inadvertently del... |
| Apr 2, 2018 | Weight Watchers' new program has 200 'zero-point' foods you can eat as much as you want — including eggs | Weight Watchers recently introduced its new 'Freestyle' weight loss program.
The program is similar to previous versions but adds new flexibility with an expanded list of foods that don't need to be tracked or weighed, also c... |
| Feb 14, 2018 | The case for Narcan and CPR training | ImmERge Labs cofounder Marion Leary was walking home from the Philadelphia Eagles parade last Thursday, amid a city overcome with joy when, suddenly, she bumped into the very problem her startup is trying to fix.
Surrounded by police office... |
| Apr 26, 2017 | A state-by-state breakdown of the striking gender gap in doctors’ pay | If you’re a doctor in Charlotte, N.C., you’re ideally situated to benefit from the highest pay in the health care business. There’s just one catch: If you want that big money, you can’t be a woman.
That’s because the city also has the bigge... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | America needs to keep the door open to immigrant physicians | The path to a career in medicine in the United States is long and arduous. That is especially and literally true for immigrants. But it’s worth it for them — and for the health of all Americans.
There are several pathways by which immigrant... |
| Dec 19, 2016 | Older patients tend to fare better with female doctors, study shows | A new study could add to the argument over equal pay in the ranks of medicine: Older patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males.
Public health researchers at Harvard found that elderly patients were les... |
| Feb 25, 2016 | A billion-dollar patent fight over gene editing hits the courts | Kendall Squared brings you dispatches from the world’s epicenter for biotechnology and drug discovery.
Deborah Katz was well on her way to a career as a scientist. She had excelled in graduate school and started a postdoctoral fellowship in... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | Why this rigorous Penn Medicine program is the perfect breeding ground for founders | David Lindsay didn’t start out with entrepreneurial dreams. It didn’t even seem possible to him, or his parents, either.
When he told them about his plans to launch a health IT startup, his parents thought it was laughable — not in a condes... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | Can Twitter help with health insurance enrollment? | It then tested a correlation of Twitter sentiment with marketplace enrollment by state. Tweet sentiment was determined using the National Research Council sentiment lexicon, which contains more than 54,000 words with corresponding sentiment... |
| Nov 21, 2014 | Infant vision test, stroke recovery among medical apps to compete for investment | StrokeVision by Dr. Claude Nguyen, an assistant professor of clinical neurology at the medical school and the director of stroke services at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center developed an app for Google Glass to assist patients with rehabili... |
| Sep 30, 2014 | MobileOptx uses medical device innovation to bring endoscope and iPhone together | Mirza is a professor in the Otolaryngology department at Penn’s medical school, and Brant is doing a fellowship with the department.
Although Mirza had developed the concept for the attachment, it took a few iterations with the help of engi... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | Innovators will swing balance in national initiative to manage antibiotic-resistant bacteria threat | athenahealth and Epocrates devised a mobile app called Bugs + Drugs to identify bacteria types that are pervasive (and not so common) in a patient’s geographic area to help inform doctor’s choices for the most appropriate antibiotic to pres... |
| Sep 13, 2014 | Penn App hackathon adds mobile health division | Dan Velazquez, who works in Epic’s research and development division at its Verona, Wisconsin headquarters, said it would give an award for best patient engagement app. DreamIt Ventures is also offering a prize — a final round interview for... |