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Up to 50 percent of cancer-signaling proteins once believed to be immune to drug treatments due to a lack of targetable protein regions may actually be treatable, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the…

Complications from pregnancy and child birth have led to high death rates among people who have given birth in the United States, and a new study using long-range, racially-inclusive data shows that these complications can have deadly…

A new approach that delivers a “one-two punch” to help T cells attack solid tumors is the focus of a preclinical study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings, published in the…

Roughly one million people die of untreated kidney failure, worldwide, each year. Despite the major personal and economic burden, only a few new approaches have been deployed to treat or cure kidney disease over the last 40 years.…

The Penn Medicine Princeton Cancer Center received a $2.5 million grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation to help fund an innovative program to ensure holistic, patient-centered care for older adults with cancer.The new Geriatric…

George Jabboure Netto, MD, an internationally recognized physician-scientist specializing in genitourinary pathology and molecular genetic pathology, has been named chair of the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Penn…

A much-anticipated, high-tech facility offering the most advanced form of radiation treatment for cancer will welcome its first patients on Tuesday, April 4.Located in Voorhees, N.J., the Penn Medicine |Virtua Health Proton Therapy Center…

A promising new approach may safely replace microglia—the only members of the immune system in the brain—according to new research conducted in mouse models by neuroscientists at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of…

The revolutionary chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, used to treat patients with certain types of cancers, can be reworked to treat a form of the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis (MG), according to a preclinical study…

Adults who suffered any head injury during a 30-year study period had two times the rate of mortality than those who did not have any head injury, and mortality rates among those with moderate or severe head injuries were nearly three…