Battling a Binging Brain
In pilot study, deep brain stimulation curbed binge eating.
Return to Sender
Law and medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings.
Hospital of the Future
With Pavilion’s opening, the hospital of the future is here.
New Awakening
In multiple roles, Gina South Gr’12 fights racism in medicine.
The Museum Prescription
Doctors are worn down by paperwork and long hours, forced to focus on computer screens instead of their patients, plagued by feelings of eroding autonomy, traumatized by a pandemic—and trained to endure suffering with stoicism. What ails physicians bodes ill for their patients. Can the visual arts help revive their well-being? A year-long initiative from Penn Medicine and Philadelphia’s flagship art museums aims to test the theory at internet scale.
Engineered Spinal Discs
Penn team implants engineered spinal discs in goats.
Penn Launches Biotech Fund
$50 million fund will jumpstart local biotech-companies.
Phantom Concussions
Here’s what may have afflicted US diplomats in Cuba.
$21 Million for Basser Center for BRCA
$21 million to Basser Center to fight BRCA-related cancers.
Hospital of the Future
$1.5 billion, 17-story pavilion for patient care slated for Penn Tower site.
Pancreas Research Program Established
$12 million to establish Human Pancreas Analysis Program at Penn.
Penn Team Pulls Off Double Hand Transplant
Penn team performs double hand-transplant at HUP
Record-setting Gift from Perelmans to Endow, Rename School of Medicine
Perelmans give $225 million to the School of Medicine.
New Med School Dean
Northwestern’s J. Larry Jameson named new medical dean and EVP.
Turning the Tables on BRCA-related Breast Cancer
Novel drug treatment may shrink breast-cancer tumors.
Who’s Who?
Thomas Eakins’ The Agnew Clinic