Group looks to make medicine cheaper
Penn students have assumed a leading role in an organization aimed at providing cheaper drugs to developing nations.
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Penn students have assumed a leading role in an organization aimed at providing cheaper drugs to developing nations.
Penn has received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the study of musculoskeletal disorders.
From downing espresso shots to dousing oneself in water, there are a number of rumors circulating on the most effective way to treat a drunk.
Penn's School of Medicine has climbed to No. 3 in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of research medical schools.
Penn researchers could be on the brink of finding a new way to treat asthma.
Penn's School of Medicine has made a deal with a major pharmaceutical firm to develop drugs more quickly.
After years of carefully controlling their own educations, fourth-year medical students----- at Penn and across the country entrust their futures to a computer.
The burden of caring for spouses with mental diseases may take a heavier toll than previously thought, researchers affiliated with Penn have found.
Penn Medical student Scott Caesar will eat grits for breakfast this week with Ida Morris, a West Philadelphia resident in her eighties.
Strains of a deadly bird flu have been detected in countries across the globe, but Penn researchers are working to ensure that students need not seal themselves in their rooms just yet.
At about 6 p.m. on a Monday evening a burgundy, 15-seater van pulls up to the intersection of 42nd and Girard streets, and a group of Penn students files out, laughing about free beer and class schedules.
While a new report ranks Pennsylvania Hospital in the top 5 percent of teaching hospitals in the nation, Penn officials and other hospital administrators wonder whether that really means much.
A new study suggests that investing in information technology can mean more money for hospitals, but Penn officials say patient safety is incentive enough for them.
Emergency medical personnel work hard to get patients to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In a race against time, seriously injured patients are rushed to the medical center from around the area, over land by ambulance -- and through the air by helicopter.
Three pieces of legislation this week threaten major cuts for the Penn Health System's budget, but officials say the financial crisis the system suffered in 1998 and 1999 won't recur.
The Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine is moving smoothly toward a 2008 opening date, with only minor changes made to the original plans.
Harrison College House is known for its slow elevators. But some residents are trying to outsmart the computer that operates them, looking for a way to get upstairs faster.
A new movement in academic publishing is gaining steam, and Penn is right in the thick of it.
The controversy that brought Vioxx into the national spotlight is dying down, but several Penn professors think there is more to be learned from the incident.
The heart of South Philadelphia -- home of Rocky, Pat's and Geno's, and just blocks from the Italian Market -- hardly seems like the place for a small French BYOB. Yet just across the street from the U.S. Vietnam Express Inc. travel company sits Pif, chef David Ansill's charming little restaurant.