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”
Crossing the Street
It’s just a short walk from Penn’s campus to the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, but for the hundreds of medical students and residents who train there the experience can be transformative.
Inside the Cancer-Cell Smasher
In the last century, American medicine has gone from a cottage industry to a technology-driven juggernaut. The machine at the heart of the new Roberts Proton Therapy Center, dubbed “the world’s most expensive and complex medical device,” provides a glimpse of what the coming years may hold.
Bridging the Medical-Legal Divide for Children
Amy Zimmerman C’85
A Product of Her Environment
Lisa Nagy C’82
Findings
Waterlogged, Now You See It, Bargain Envy, and Wrongful Diagnosis.
Paging Dr. Vongtama (on- and off-screen)
Roy Vongtama C’96
Findings
Research in Brief
Tick Doc
Steven Phillips W’87
Hope or False Hope?
What stories about celebrities and their illnesses mean to the rest of us.