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The Right Prescription: Penn Medicine & Wharton Launch Executive Health Care Leadership Program

Penn Medicine and Wharton Executive Education are joining forces to launch an executive health care leadership program that will offer a strategic toolkit to cement leadership at a time when science, technology, and economics are reshaping the practice of medicine and altering the field’s economic landscape.

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Penn Medicine Study Reveals Regular Behavioral Counseling Sessions Lead to Clinically Significant Weight Loss
November 14, 2018
Racial Disparities in Sudden Cardiac Death Rates Cannot Be Explained by Known Risk Factors
November 12, 2018

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All Hands on Deck: Fentanyl in Philadelphia

November 13, 2018

On a busy summer evening, six patients were brought by EMS transport to the Emergency Department at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center for suspected overdose of crack cocaine, which, unbeknownst to the patients, had been mixed with fentanyl.
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Why Do We Eat Soup When We have a Cold?

November 08, 2018

As the leaves fall and temperatures drop, people tend to spend more time indoors with others, which potentially increases the exposure to cold-causing viruses. At some point this season, most people will catch the common cold, a viral infection in the upper respiratory system characterized by coughing, sneezing, sore throat, and other symptoms.
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How to Survive Baseball’s ‘Most Fearsome Injury’

November 06, 2018

As a 15-year-old high school pitcher, my fastball hissed into the catcher’s mitt at 80 on the radar gun. By the end of my sophomore season, the pitch was 10 miles per hour slower and missing its zip. When someone asks what happened, I usually tell them, “Do you remember Mark Prior?”
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Think Globally, Act Locally

November 01, 2018

“Think globally, act locally” is a popular global health idea that encourages people to consider the health of the entire planet while taking actions in their own cities and communities. And it’s an idea that inspired a group of students in the Perelman School of Medicine to join with other medical schools in Philadelphia and start a group dedicated to the growing field of global surgery.
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Is Your Genetic Test Telling You the Truth?

October 29, 2018

When I first ordered my at-home DNA testing kit, I was curious about my family’s ancestry – was the lavish rumor true that my Polish roots began with a bankrupted Hungarian royal?
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Mini-organs: Next-Gen Lab Model, not the Child of Frankenstein

October 25, 2018

When it comes to biology, fiction often predates reality, sometimes by centuries. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein epitomizes how much one novel has infiltrated science throughout time.
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Penn Medicine In the News

Black People More Likely to Die of Sudden Cardiac Arrest, but Why?
November 12, 2018
Penn Medicine News Release Philadelphia Inquirer
Do Emergency Rooms or Urgent Care Have Better Service? Yelp Reviewers Decide
November 09, 2018
Penn Medicine News Release MarketWatch Becker’s Clinical Leadership & Infection Control
Doctors Share What It’s Like to Treat Gunshot Victims
November 09, 2018
NBC10

Johns Hopkins Footprint in Saudi Arabia Raises Human Rights Concerns
November 05, 2018
Baltimore Sun
The Structure of Heart Failure
November 01, 2018
Physics Today
5 Entirely Preventable Eye Injuries Doctors See Way Too Often
November 01, 2018
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