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A ‘dented’ internal clock informs shift workers’ weight gain and diabetes

Weight gain and high blood sugar caused by a damaged internal clock was corrected by Penn researchers, who changed the length of the day in tests.

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Ethnic and racial diversity in surgical faculty associated with medical student diversity

A new study confirms there is little progress made in the last decade to expand racial and ethnic diversity in surgical faculty, despite evidence that more diverse faculty leads to greater racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in the medical student population.

Medical professional looking closely with a smartphone lens at pigment on a person’s arm.

Drugs designed for prostate cancer may treat melanoma in men

A new Penn study finds that testosterone contributes to sex differences in melanoma via the activation of the zinc transporter ZIP9.

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With more kids eligible for vaccines, is the pandemic in a new phase?

With the FDA authorization last week, 28 million more children are eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Experts from the School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine share their thoughts about what to expect in the weeks and months to come.

Historic move ushers in new era of care

Over eight hours, 310 patients moved to the Pavilion, a 17-story, 1.5-million-square-foot addition to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania campus.

Person in a white coat reaching into a refrigerator full of bagged vaccines.

The controversy surrounding vaccinations, then and now

Robert Aronowitz, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, reflects on vaccine hesitancy today compared to the past, and the politicization of public health.

Odili Odita stands in front of his mural in the Penn Medicine Pavilion.

Philadelphia artist Odili Odita’s Pavilion mural is a ‘kaleidoscope landscape’

The mural, titled “Field and Sky” spans two floors of the Pavilion, with rich bright colors evocative of nature to generate the idea of being in different stages of daylight.

Red blood cells play much larger role in immune system via DNA-binding

Penn Medicine researchers have uncovered mechanism of how red blood cells detect and bind DNA, opening a new area of research for treatment of inflammatory diseases.

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Yelp star ratings may reveal county-level death rate disparities

A one-star disparity on health care facility Yelp reviews could indicate a 60-death-per-year difference between some United States counties where those facilities are located.

Two hardcover books on a table, “AIDS: The Burden of History” and “AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease.”

Penn Libraries acquires the personal papers of historian and activist Elizabeth Fee

The papers of the pioneering historian and health advocate, who died in 2018, adds to the Libraries’ growing collection of materials charting the history of public health activism.

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