Penn Medicine

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Penn's tumor vaccine shows promise to fight cancer in early tests

Medical Research

Penn researchers help discover previously unknown feature of human body

Medical Research

CHOP, Penn researchers find new lung stem cells with promise for regenerative medicine

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New Apple iOS feature will let you store medical records on your iPhone

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Penn takes part in study of faster PTSD treatment for military personnel

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New Penn research could be hopeful discovery for melanoma patients

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Penn study: Improvements in U.S. mortality rate offset by obesity

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Penn Medicine now includes the Princeton HealthCare System

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Two Philly hospitals penalized for high injury, infection rates

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Penn study: Sleep may explain link between fish consumption, intelligence

Penn study: High costs causing cancer patients to ditch oral treatment

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Penn leading $4 million effort to improve brain injury diagnosis, treatment

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Penn study: Minorities are less likely to see a doctor for common skin disease

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Penn study spots evidence for higher concussion vulnerability in women

Can memory loss be cured? Penn researchers' brain map has some answers

Penn Medicine study: Men more likely than women to receive CPR in public

Penn Medicine launches Northeast's first clinical trial for womb transplant

Penn study pinpoints why last year's flu shot was a dud

Penn experiments discover brain region key to driving behavioral change

Cancer Treatment

Unneeded scans, therapy, surgery only add to patients’ ills and bills

Penn researchers find skin pigment genes falsify long-held race concepts

Penn surgeons become world's first to test glowing dye for cancerous lymph nodes

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Study: Do ride-share apps help cut drunk driving accidents?

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Three ways smartphones are hurting your health – and how to combat them

Cancer Treatment

Penn becomes world's first hospital to treat cancer patient with new radiation technology

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Penn study confirms anti-depressant effects of sleep deprivation

Penn Medicine researcher highlights health dangers of ending DACA

CHOP, Penn Medicine join forces in national study of kidney stones

Penn-CHOP study: Art courses could help medical students become better doctors

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Penn neurosurgeon becomes first in Pennsylvania to perform back-saving procedure

Study links daily check-ins to weight loss, but does the scale tell the whole story?

Penn to launch genetic research program on Asperger syndrome

Penn Medicine: Mental dangers of sleep loss can be as harmful as the physical

Watch: Penn Medicine sets record for largest pour of concrete in Philly history

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Penn medical school alum confronts what 'no one wants to talk about' in new podcast

Penn tests new app designed for nurses, mothers of ICU newborns

Penn Medicine lands in Forbes' top 10 places to work in United States

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How fentanyl is complicating the opioid crisis

Nine uncommon ways to survive allergy season

Low on donations, Penn tests infected organs for transplants

Penn Medicine holding free event for mammograms, cervical cancer screenings

Riley Hancey, who received lung transplant in Philly after being denied in Utah, dies at 20

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