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Shreya Parchure: Leveraging AI to help stroke survivors recover speech abilities
Shreya Parchure in a white coat in the Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation in the Goddard Laboratory on Penn's campus, smiling with arms crossed and facing forward.

Shreya Parchure, an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at Penn, conducts much of her AI-driven research in the Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation, focusing on ways to personalize speech therapy for patients with post-stroke aphasia.

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Shreya Parchure: Leveraging AI to help stroke survivors recover speech abilities

Doctoral student Shreya Parchure and her team evaluated the usefulness of an AI tool for personalizing speech therapy for patients with post-stroke aphasia.

4 min. read

Cholesterol crystals may be hidden trigger for some liver disease

Cholesterol crystals may be hidden trigger for some liver disease

New research from Penn Medicine finds that cholesterol crystals in the liver may stiffen the organ in those with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease before scarring develops, and may help explain why high cholesterol worsens this type of liver disease.

2 min. read

The small, high-tech beanie protecting premature babies
Pamela Collins holding her baby son.

Pamela Collins holds her son, John, who is wearing the Sonura Beanie. 

 

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The small, high-tech beanie protecting premature babies

The Sonura Beanie, designed by Penn Engineering alums, is calming babies in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s intensive care nursery.

Alex Gardner

2 min. read

1 in 4 young people using psychotropic drugs are taking dangerous combinations
An adolescent holding a prescription pill.

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1 in 4 young people using psychotropic drugs are taking dangerous combinations

A Penn Medicine study shows that the use of medicines to address mental health or behavioral conditions climbed from 2001 until 2020, but the increase has led to safety concerns.

Frank Otto

2 min. read

Rewriting the rules of lung repair
Andy vaughan in his lab.

Associate professor of biomedical sciences Andy Vaughan.

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Rewriting the rules of lung repair

Penn Vet’s Andrew Vaughan works to uncover why some lungs rebound and others have lasting damage, and how to change that.

Martin Hackett

2 min. read

Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
A person in bed taking earplugs out of a case.

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Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality

Penn Medicine researchers find that earplugs work better in protecting sleep from traffic noise, challenging the widespread use of ambient sound machines and apps marketed as sleep aids.

Eric Horvath

2 min. read