Medicine

B cells drive responses of other immune cells, can be modified to prevent multiple sclerosis symptoms

Penn Medicine research finds that abnormally active B cell metabolism causes an inflammatory immune response in individuals with MS.

Experimental mRNA avian flu vaccine

Promising preclinical results from a new Penn Medicine study suggest an mRNA vaccine platform could limit the impact of avian flu pandemics.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System has appointed a new chief financial officer

Julia Puchtler, current CFO of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, will succeed Keith Kasper as CFO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, featuring remarks from CEO Kevin B. Mahoney.

Lactose intolerant? Here’s how you should, and shouldn’t, be eating

Christopher Schmoyer of the Perelman School of Medicine says that people develop lactose intolerance when their bodies don’t make enough of the enzyme lactase for the amount of dairy they consume.

A Penn team’s push to make research more inclusive

Penn’s Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center is working to bring more underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds into their research, and to train AI models to be free from bias.

A doctor to help patients thrive in life after cancer

Jennie Barbieri provides a holistic, collaborative approach to wellness issues for cancer survivors to help improve their quality of life, delay or prevent heart disease, and manage other long-term effects of cancer treatments.

A mutation hiding in one unique patient could save others from forming a ‘second skeleton’

One patient led Penn Medicine’s Fred Kaplan to a genetic discovery surrounding the “trigger” for a debilitating skeletal condition.

A teenager having their eyesight examined.

Gene editing restores some sight in pair of children treated for blindness

CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has been found to be safe and largely effective in addressing a form of inherited blindness in a group of patients that, for the first time, included children

Inside Penn’s transfer center

Penn Medicine’s transfer command center gets patients from affiliated hospitals and hospitals outside Philadelphia to specialized care that can save lives, with comments from CEO Kevin Mahoney.

A sign that reads Welcome to the Navajo Nation.

Intervention in Navajo Nation boosts uptake for heart failure drugs by 53%

LDI senior fellow Lauren Eberly details her latest study on the Navajo Nation reservation in New Mexico, highlighting the increased uptake of guideline-directed heart failure therapy drugs.

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