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New research hub to address Philly's childhood asthma, lead poisoning rates

New SEPTA program paves way for businesses to provide free Key cards to employees

SEPTA Pilot Program

Hospitals, insurers and colleges join forces to reduce Philly's health inequities

Accelerate Health Equity Philly

The search for an HIV vaccine continues with a clinical trial partly based in Philly

HIV vaccine mRNA

Penn doctor splits rare horseshoe kidney to benefit 2 transplant patients

Horseshoe kidney transplantation

Penn scientists aim to bring promising cancer therapy closer to reality

Penn Medicine FLASH radiation

Penn creates tuition-free nurse practitioner program after receiving record $125 million donation

Penn Nurse Practitioners Program

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia named America's best large employer by Forbes

Children's Hospital Philadelphia Forbes

Telemedicine can help reduce racial disparity in follow-up appointments, study finds

Telemedicine Study Penn

Encouraging use of buprenorphine in emergency departments improves opioid use disorder care, study finds

Penn study on opioid use disorder treatment

Philly siblings will celebrate Christmas together after a successful living-donor kidney transplant

Alli Chris Maurer Kidney Transplant

Penn researchers named Time's 'Heroes of the Year' for helping to develop COVID-19 vaccines

Time Heroes of the Year 2021

Franklin Institute to honor Penn researchers who played vital role in developing COVID-19 vaccines

Franklin Institute Awards Drew Weissman Katalin Karikó

The psychological toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit mental health providers hard, too

Mental health COVID-19

With $10 million gift, Penn Medicine establishes Colton Center for Autoimmunity

Wherry Penn Autoimmunity

Philadelphia Orchestra music healing program expands to more than 70 U.S. hospitals

Philadelphia Orchestra hospitals program

Penn Medicine to offer childbirth class geared toward LGBTQ+ families

Penn Medicine LGBTQ+ birthing class

'Top Chef' judge bringing Root & Sprig to new Penn Pavilion

Root Sprig Penn Pavilion

For women with infertility, baby boy born through Penn's uterus transplant program is a symbol of hope

Penn Uterus Transplant

Penn study shows the psychological toll that gun violence exposure has on children

Gun violence Mental health

Pfizer, Moderna vaccines still effective in people with MS despite diminished antibody response

Penn researchers awarded $3 million Breakthrough Prize for developing mRNA technology used by COVID-19 vaccines

Penn Breakthrough Prize

Penn Medicine, Wharton School initiative seeks to improve health of lower-income Philly residents

Penn Medicine Wharton School Fund for Health

As COVID-19 booster shots near, Penn immunologist explains why he hates the term 'breakthrough infection'

Vaccine Wherry Breakthrough

Controlling cholesterol may be key to treating a common kidney cancer

Kidney Cancer Cholesterol

Penn Medicine hospitals climb higher on the U.S. News & World Report rankings

U.S. News best hospitals

Penn Medicine to lead study of heart disease, cancer in minority communities

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Fauci speaks at Penn Medicine event, addresses youth mental health and COVID-19 vaccines

Anthony Fauci, Penn Medicine

Black people die of COVID-19 at higher rates because they lack access to quality hospitals, Penn study finds

COVID-19 Death Rate

Black women do not face greater genetic risk of breast cancer, Penn study finds

Racial disparities breast cancer

Penn Medicine develops an 'electronic nose' to sniff out cancer

Penn Medicine 'electronic nose'

Lung transplants saving severe COVID-19 patients on death's doorstep

Penn Lung Transplant 2

Rapid COVID-19 test developed at Penn uses electrodes to identify positive cases

RAPID Penn COVID-19 Test

Competitive dancer waltzes her way back onto the dance floor after nerve surgery

Gail Cohen Penn Nerve Center

Penn doctor raises $500,000 for Indian hospitals battling COVID-19 surge

Providing exposure therapy to PTSD patients is one of the latest ways VR is being used in health care

Virtual Reality Treatment For PTSD

Barriers to specialty care may be causing disparities in use of diabetes drug, Penn study finds

Diabetes drugs

One vaccine dose may be enough for people who had COVID-19, Penn scientists say

Racial disparities still persist in genetic testing for BRCA-related breast cancer

Carlette Burton Breast Cancer

New Penn Nerve Center assembles interdisciplinary team to treat challenging disorders

Penn Nerve Center

Cancer drugs show promise in blocking hormones that fuel COVID-19 progression

COVID-19 Androgen Hormones

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