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Penn Medicine’s Community Health Worker Model Recognized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

A team from Penn Medicine that runs a program to improve health outcomes for veterans received a “Gold Status” Diffusion of Excellence award from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the health care arm of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Penn Medicine’s Community Health Worker Model Recognized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
October 17, 2018
Four Penn Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine
October 15, 2018

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Sounds Too Good to Be True? Delving into the Strange and Soothing World of ASMR

October 18, 2018

ASMR: It’s hard to describe to those who don’t experience it. It’s like quiet TV static filling my brain, or a river of bubbly seltzer water rushing under my scalp and down my spine. ASMR videos have taken the Internet by storm, but the science behind the phenomenon and its benefits remains fuzzy.
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Asking for Input: How Patient and Family Advisory Councils Improve Care

October 16, 2018

Five oncology nurses at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) – most with less than a year of experience under their belts – listened closely as a panel of former patients and family members of patients told stories of their personal experiences on a cancer unit at HUP.
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Climbing Out of the Anesthetic Abyss

October 11, 2018

The first successful surgery under anesthesia occurred in the 1840s. Since then—more than 170 years later—people have been developing theories about what might be going on in the brain while a person is unconscious. And many mysteries remain.
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For Teenage Cancer Patients, Social Well-being is a Priority

October 09, 2018

Like most teenagers, Allison “Alli” Zellers loved to sleep late on weekends. But one Sunday morning, Alli’s plans to stay in bed were interrupted by a twinge of pain at the back of her neck. When the pain persisted despite rest, medication, and physical therapy, her doctor ordered an MRI.
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The World’s Oldest Nightmare

October 04, 2018

The thing that scared me the most was that I couldn’t move. My body was paralyzed. No, not paralyzed. Something was holding me in place.
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Surviving Sepsis: How one doctor’s personal experience is helping improve care for patients and staff

October 02, 2018

Diana Kane, MD, knew something was very wrong. It had been a week since she had undergone an outpatient procedure at a local surgical center and for the past five days she had been experiencing symptoms of an infection.
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