Penn’s Ebola Fighters
They tend to be uncomfortable with terms like “fighter” and “hero,” but it’s hard to know what else to call these alumni and staff volunteers who’ve traveled to the heart of the epidemic to do whatever they can to help its victims.
Life and Death Without Borders
Dan Goldring C’98 W’98 co-chairs Doctors Without Borders’ advisory board.
Leading the Fight Against Childhood Cancer
John Maris M’89 co-leads a “Dream Team” fighting childhood cancers.
Wounded Warriors and the Legacy of WWI
Medical historian Beth Linker on war and the limits of rehabilitation.
A Principled Man
Nathan Mossell M1882 overcame great odds to become the first African-American graduate of Penn’s School of Medicine. He went on to found Philadelphia’s first black hospital—an achievement he never really wanted.
On Doctoring
A physician and bioethicist reconsiders his father’s medical paternalism.
From a Shirt to a Stent
Vagelos Scholar Chris Kampmeyer is helping design a safer stent.
The Bionic Bicep
“Titan Arm” lifts four Penn student engineers to major prizes.
Saved Before Birth
CHOP and Penn doctors receive prestigious John Scott Award.
The Revolution Has Not Been Personalized: Genomic Medicine at the Ten-Year Mark
Q&A | After 10 years, genetic medicine mostly a “desert.”
The Case of S. Weir Mitchell
He’s now remembered, if at all, for a misguided “rest cure” that inspired an iconic piece of early feminist fiction, but in his day alumnus and longtime University trustee S. Weir Mitchell found fame in several fields—as a noted surgeon and physician, a leading medical researcher, and a best-selling author.
Trauma by Number
Alan Schwarz C’90
Abramson Cancer Center Suing Former Director
Abramson Institute and Penn file lawsuits against former director
Doctor By Default
Some physicians can’t imagine doing anything else. I’m the other kind.
Record-setting Gift from Perelmans to Endow, Rename School of Medicine
Perelmans give $225 million to the School of Medicine.
Tour of Duty
Four decades after Vietnam, a former soldier mounts a different mission.
Speak, Pain
A physician who has looked at pain from both sides examines the language we use to describe it.
Saving Brains from Bullets
G. Michael Lemole Jr. M’95 was Gabrielle Gifford’s neurosurgeon.
The Ethics of Early Intersex Intervention
Brownlee lecturer: “Should we be afraid of big clitorises?”
Some Vinegar and a Cellphone, Stat!
Screening for cancer with vinegar and a cellphone camera.
Brain Autopsy Sheds Light on Football Player’s Suicide
Football-induced brain injuries possibly linked to student’s suicide.
$25.5 Million Gift for Cancer Research
Abramsons give another $25.5 million for cancer research
From Haiti’s Rubble to HUP
Airlift brings Haiti earthquake victims to HUP, CHOP
Exploring Old Age
“People generally die the way they live”