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.
Fighting the Religion of Cost Effectiveness
AIDS fighter Paul Farmer on the “cost-effectiveness” fallacy.
Research Briefs
Research Briefs
Envisioning Sight
Anita Nevyas-Wallace C’80 M’83
Looking for Good Things in Small Packages
Center for Molecular Discovery
The Heart of the Matter
Framingham study’s legacy
The Rebuilder
As founder and director of the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, alumnus Allen Keller works to mend the bodies, minds, and spirits of people who have suffered the worst evils humans can inflict on each other.
Penn Pays to Settle Civil Suit in Gelsinger Case
Penn and government settle 1999 gene-therapy case
Simulated People Save Real Lives
René Gonzalez M’83 GM’86
The Talking Cure
A more collaborative culture in health care could reduce medical errors—and save lives.
Breast-Cancer Risk Drops with Double Mastectomies
Preventive mastectomies found to work
Pharmaceutical Firm Gives $10 Million for Research
Grant from GlaxoSmithKline to support academic research.
Shedding Light—and Shining Lasers—on Cancer
Joseph Friedberg EAS’81
Penn Researcher CouldvLose Drug-Testing Privileges
FDA seeks to ban IHGT’s Wilson from conducting drug trials.
Ex-Inmates Sue Penn and Kligman over Research
Former inmates file suit over tests in 1960s-70s.
Gelsinger Family and University Settle
Lawsuit settled in Gelsinger case.