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Penn researchers join ARPA-H initiative to develop next-gen fetal monitoring device
A pregnant person holding their belly at a prenatal checkup.

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Penn researchers join ARPA-H initiative to develop next-gen fetal monitoring device

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine are part of a collaborative team awarded $39.3 million to provide clinicians with real-time information about fetal oxygen levels and reduce unnecessary interventions.

Alex Gardner

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Path to Penn Nursing with Casey Benchimol

Path to Penn Nursing with Casey Benchimol

Casey Benchimol, a nurse practitioner at the Mazzoni Center and lecturer in Penn Nursing, highlights her early interest in labor and delivery, postpartum care, and reproductive health with a focus on LGBTQIA+ health.

Kate O'Neill: Bringing hope to uterine health patients
Kate O'Neill in a clinical exam room.

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Kate O'Neill: Bringing hope to uterine health patients

Physician-scientist Kate O’Neill directs innovative research that helps people suffering from infertility, endometriosis, and other issues build families and have excellent quality-of-life.

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Improving science and care for early pregnancy loss

Improving science and care for early pregnancy loss

Penn Medicine’s Courtney Schreiber has challenged the status quo of care through research and found peace for the unseen women undergoing first-trimester miscarriage.

From Penn Medicine News

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Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate
Florencia Polite.

Florencia Polite, Penn Medicine’s chief of Academic Specialists in Obstetrics and Gynecology and vice chair of the department’s clinical operations.

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Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate

At home and overseas, Florencia Polite is on a mission to help patients and physicians understand how RSV vaccines protect newborns.

From Penn Medicine News

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New research seeks an mRNA therapy for heavy menstrual bleeding
Kathleen O’Neil speaking with someone at her desk with a medical scan on her computer screen.

Kathleen O’Neill, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the program director of the Uterine Transplant Program.

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New research seeks an mRNA therapy for heavy menstrual bleeding

A new research program at Penn Medicine is working to explore the underlying causes of abnormal uterine bleeding alongside a new mRNA treatment.

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Study finds American women may benefit from IUD only available in Europe and Canada

Study finds American women may benefit from IUD only available in Europe and Canada

New research led by researchers at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine suggests the Food and Drug Administration should consider approving more and smaller IUDs. While the larger IUDs are 99% effective at preventing pregnancies over three years, the researchers have found the mini IUDs were still very effective (at 95%) for the same duration.