04/17/24 12:16am
The program's first event will be held this Thursday in Irvine Auditorium, where David Fajgenbaum will speak about the power of community support in times of grief.
03/26/24 11:20pm
While there is currently no cure for glioblastoma, patients are often treated with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.
03/20/24 12:40am
Emily Whitehead — a Penn first year — was the first child to receive the Penn-pioneered cancer treatment, which has since treated more than 20,000 patients worldwide.
03/12/24 11:32pm
Wellness at Penn and MERT officers offered brief Narcan administration directions to interested students, and distributed boxes of two single-dose nasal spray devices of Narcan.
02/19/24 11:45pm
The Feb. 11 CPR training event reached 617 people across 14 locations around campus.
02/08/24 1:34am
Penn Med will continue offering CAR-T cell therapy after FDA issues new "black box" warning.
01/31/24 11:55pm
Researchers identified multiple gene variants that may contribute to glaucoma and developed a score to measure disease risk based on an individual's genes.
04/24/23 10:54pm
Reproductive care provided by Wellness at Penn currently includes pregnancy testing, STI and HIV testing, and counseling.
03/29/23 11:13pm
The company — which is represented by a gender-neutral cartoon character, Dr Hen — publishes content across various social media platforms and discusses a breadth of health-related topics.
03/21/23 10:30pm
CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Kevin Mahoney announced the elimination of a “small number of administrative positions which no longer align with our key objectives.”
03/15/23 11:23pm
The study aimed to increase the frequency and efficiency of “serious illness conversations” so that patients could have more agency over their treatment.
02/06/23 10:28pm
The program's format is intended to ensure intellectual diversity among the participating students, according to school administrators that the DP spoke with.
02/01/23 10:20pm
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02/01/23 9:20pm
The drug, lecanemab, received FDA approval on Jan. 6, after a study to assess its efficacy on volunteers concluded its third phase.
01/18/23 9:37pm
ChatGPT, which was developed by OpenAI, can complete tasks like writing essays or code and solving math problems.
11/18/22 2:06am
Spokesperson Meredith Rovine wrote that Penn Carey Law “applauds Yale Law and Harvard Law for their leadership in raising key questions for all law schools,” and agrees that the rankings are not holistic.
11/15/22 8:42am
The event, which was held at Parkway Central Library and Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, centered around a theme of “Translating Science.”
11/09/22 2:01am
Born in Egypt, the Dweek siblings both reached Penn after successful high school careers in Canada.
11/01/22 1:27am
Although the aim of her sport is to lead amongst the rest, junior Phoebe White values being part of a pack for support and motivation.
10/31/22 1:43am
Researchers developed a method to forecast rare disease development called PANDA with $4.7 million of funding from the National Institute of Health.
