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Even when in remission, cancer can put you at higher risk for severe COVID-19

Cancer Remission COVID-19

Opioids

Opioid overdoses are killing more Black Philadelphians, but fewer white residents

Philly Black Opioid Deaths

Illness

Outcomes improving for critically ill COVID-19 patients, Penn study finds

Illness

Post-COVID recovery clinics offer continuing care to 'long-haulers'

Post-COVID Recovery Clinics

Health News

Penn physicists get $2 million grant to develop portable COVID-19 detector

Health News

COVID-19 community spread linked to lower survival rates at local hospitals, Penn researchers find

Hospital Mortality COVID-19

Children's Health

Many teenagers start driving too soon after a concussion

Teens drivers concussion

Health Stories

Penn scientists played critical role in developing mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines

Penn COVID-19 Vaccines

Health News

Pennsylvania hospitals may postpone elective surgeries to meet surging COVID-19 admissions

PA hospitals COVID-19

Illness

A rise in post-COVID syndrome is concerning U.S. health experts

A rise in post-COVID syndrome is concerning U.S. health experts

Men's Health

X-rays could raise risk of testicular cancer, Penn researchers find

Penn Medicine TGCT

Adult Health

Telemedicine can reduce wait times for highly-sought dermatology visits

Dermatologist Consult Telehealth

Health News

Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel tapped to help guide Biden's COVID-19 response

Zeke Emanuel Biden's COVID-19 panel

Men's Health

Penn Medicine gets $5.4 million grant to study genetic causes of testicular cancer

Penn Testicular Cancer

Illness

Radiation doesn't disrupt cellular cancer therapy, Penn study finds

Illness

Wasp venom may help solve the problem of drug-resistant infections

Wasp Venom Penn

Health News

Penn researchers get $3.2 million grant to use artificial intelligence for improving heart transplants

Penn Heart Transplants

Illness

TV ads may be contributing to treatment disparities for psoriasis, eczema

Psoriasis Eczema TV Ads

Health News

Temple, Penn scientists take step toward reversing spinal cord damage

Temple Spinal Inury

Illness

Penn researchers advance potential cure for type 1 diabetes

Penn Diabetes Islet

Opioids

Excessive, high-dose opioids commonly prescribed after knee surgery, Penn study finds

Penn Knees Opioids

Mental Health

CHOP researchers see sense of altruism in people's COVID-19 worries

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Women's Health

To address gender disparities in heart failure studies, add more female researchers

Women Heart Failure Research

Adult Health

Cancer diagnoses have plummeted amid the COVID-19 pandemic – and doctors are worried

Cancer diagnoses COVID-19

Weather

Penn radiation therapist recounts storm rescue at Doylestown daycare

Penn Radiation Daycare

Illness

Stroke risk among COVID-19 patients may be lower than previously thought

Stroke risk in COVID-19 patients low

Health News

Penn Medicine hospitals again named among nation's best by U.S. News & World Report

Penn Medicine best hospitals

Health News

In health care field, family doctors now appear at highest risk of COVID-19 death

Doctor Primary COVID-19

Addiction

Smokers should begin cessation drugs, then decide when to quit

Smoking cessation guidelines

Addiction

Penn Medicine emergency department participating in NIH opioid recovery study

Penn Presbyterian Buprenorphine

Senior Health

Penn Medicine, Jefferson Health to help improve COVID-19 response in Pennsylvania nursing homes

Penn Medicine nursing home initiative

Health News

Penn study suggests new therapeutic approach for autism spectrum disorders

Sensory neurons and autism

Flyers

Flyers' Oskar Lindblom rings bell after final cancer treatment at Penn Medicine

Lindblom Cancer Bell

Senior Health

Long-term use of muscle relaxants on alarming rise, Penn researchers find

Muscle Relaxants Penn

Opioids

It's time to lower opioid prescription doses in heart surgery patients, Penn researchers say

Opioid use after heart surgery

Health Stories

Rare disease researcher offers unique perspective on search for COVID-19 treatment

COVID-19 drug inventory

Music

Philadelphia Orchestra brings music to Penn Medicine patients

Philadelphia Orchestra

Adult Health

Penn researcher's breakthrough enables blind to 'see' letters, shapes

Blind Penn Vision

Illness

'COVID toes' an unusual sign of the coronavirus – and an itchy one

COVID toes

Women's Health

Born into a pandemic: Coronavirus complicates births for moms and babies

COVID-19 labor delivery

Illness

CHOP model projects COVID-19 course in Philly, other densely-populated counties

CHOP COVID-19 Model

Mental Health

Will the coronavirus pandemic make you a germaphobe? Probably not, but it may bring new habits

coronavirus germaphobe

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