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Could This Be Sepsis? Early recognition is key

Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming response to infection. It can result in tissue damage, organ failure and, ultimately, death.

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Penn Medicine Researchers Receive $18 Million Grant for the Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
September 18, 2018
Penn Medicine, Grand View Health Announce Alliance
September 18, 2018

L. Scott Levin to Serve as President of American Society for the Surgery of the Hand
September 15, 2018
Flu Vaccination Rates in Clinics Drop as Day Progresses, but Computerized Nudges Help Give Them a Boost, Penn Study Finds
September 14, 2018

On the News Blog

For Transplant Candidates, Virtual Classroom Brings Education to the Learner

September 18, 2018

While many people now use online learning courses to earn college degrees or certifications for their jobs, some are using virtual classrooms to prepare for their own life-saving procedures.
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The Script Doctor

September 13, 2018

Doctors make for good television. Networks have been filling their primetime lineups with medical dramas for as long as TV has been around. Sometimes the focus changes, from medical mysteries like House or Quincy, M.E., to the drama of emergency medicine like ER, or the complex relationships and realities of working in a hospital setting like Grey’s Anatomy.
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Stroke: Surviving and Understanding Medicine’s Great White

September 11, 2018

Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the United States. A stroke occurs when there is an interruption of blood supply to the brain. As a result, nerve cells in the affected area of the brain are deprived of oxygen and die rapidly.
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Behavioral Health: Fad Treatment Methods, Exposure Therapy, and the Importance of Data

September 06, 2018

Much like fashion trends which have a tendency to resurface every few decades, trends in mental health therapies and fads seem to be just as cyclical – and sometimes equally as out of the box.
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Psychopathy: Murder, Myths, and the Media

September 04, 2018

Psychopathy is typically understood as a personality disorder characterized by a shallowness of feeling, lack of impulse control, a disingenuous social facade, and a tendency in some towards violent behavior. From Norman Bates in Psycho, to Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, there has always been a fascination with psychopathic individuals.
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Learning and the Teen Brain: Driving, SATs, and Addiction?

August 30, 2018

We now know that the brain is the last organ to fully develop. While some special birthdays bring important milestones in the journey to adulthood—such as earning the right to drive, vote, and drink alcohol—in truth, brains simply don’t catch up until later.
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Penn Medicine In the News

Doctor Didn’t Offer a Flu Shot? It Might Depend on Time of Day
September 14, 2018
Penn Medicine News Release Philadelphia Inquirer Infectious Disease News (Healio In the Journals Plus)
People with Psoriasis Often Face Stigma, Discrimination
September 14, 2018
Reuters
Paying People to Lower Their Cholesterol Works, But Is It Cost-Effective?
September 14, 2018
Forbes

At the Crossroads of Research, Collaboration, and Implementation Lies the Microbiome
September 14, 2018
Healio Gastroenterology
With CRISPR, Scientists Engineered Nearly 4,000 Mutations of a Breast-Cancer Gene
September 12, 2018
The Atlantic
Scaling Up Cell Therapy Manufacturing
September 06, 2018
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News