Philadelphia

Every year for a decade now, Penn Medicine has made CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) Healthcare’s “Most Wired” list for its use of information technology in supporting care delivery. It is the 18th time…

Each week across the Greater Philadelphia region, patients with dementia meet virtually or in person with their “buddy”—a college student volunteer—as part of the Penn Memory Center’s Weekly Smile Program and its Time Together Program,…

Independence Blue Cross (Independence) and Penn Medicine today announce a plan to deepen their longstanding collaborations to transform healthcare in the Philadelphia region. The centerpiece of this expanding relationship is…

A $50 million gift from Stewart and Judy Colton will accelerate the existing Colton Center for Autoimmunity at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine into an internationally leading center of autoimmune research and…

What if your own medical record could figure out that you are at risk of developing a rare disease so you could receive a diagnosis months or even years earlier than you might otherwise, allowing doctors to get started on important…

Making it possible to directly order and work with the results of genetic testing through patients’ electronic health records – instead of through third-party portals – resulted in significant time savings for clinicians, according to a…

For years, apremilast (brand name Otezla) has helped psoriasis patients achieve clearer skin and ease the symptoms of their psoriatic arthritis. Now, new data from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of…

Bloodstream levels of a protein fragment called endotrophin can be used to predict outcomes in patients with a common form of heart failure, according to a study co-led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University…

The University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center today announced a $55 million gift from Penn alumni Mindy and Jon Gray to establish the Basser Cancer Interception Institute, creating a new weapon to…

Twice-daily doses of a purified, prescription-strength form of the omega-3 fatty acid EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) may substantially lower the rates of heart attacks and strokes in current and former smokers with high cardiovascular…