May 2012 Archive - Penn Medicine News Blog

Art has been shown to have a calming and healing effect, which makes it a vital presence in a hospital environment. This is especially true in an intensive care unit which can be a frightening experience for both patients and visitors, with all its unfamiliar equipment and sounds. When the...

In a new Perspective piece published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jason Karlawish, MD, professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-author Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, delve into a series of high profile court cases testing the limits of patent protection.

Last year, Sharon Civa, Entity Information Officer, Corporate Information Services, had a lifelong family friend who was admitted to the inpatient hospice unit at Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse. During the month that her friend was in the unit, Civa often visited and admired the work of the team caring for...

People can have a brain full of Alzheimer's disease, but not have the dementia that typically goes along with it. By the numbers, this subset of people can have many plaques and tangles in the brain, enough to qualify them for a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, but in reality, they...

This Sunday, more than 30,000 runners from around the world will gather in the athletic field at Philadelphia’s Central High School to take part in the 32nd annual Blue Cross Broad Street Run, one of the largest ten-mile road races in the United States. This year, the event that takes participants on a course past the varied neighborhoods of Philadelphia will also jump start the enrollment process for a new nationwide cancer prevention study (CPS). In partnership with the American Cancer Society, representatives from Independence Blue Cross and the City of Philadelphia are encouraging all eligible race participants, friends and family to enroll in the study, which aims to help researchers better understand the factors that cause cancer.

Penn Medicine researchers are the authors of a new study, out in the May issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, that examined the biology of the effects of a sneeze on the inner structures of the nose.