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NEWS BITES |
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"News Bites" are quick news stories about noteworthy research and other tidbits at Penn Medicine, gathered into themed groupings. Subscribe to Penn Medicine News Bites via email or browse the stories on this page. |
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June |
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Basic Science News Bites
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April |
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Women's Health News Bites |
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- Weight Loss Research
- Low-Fat Diets Outlast Low-Carb Diets
- A new report showed that people who stuck to a low-fat diet maintained their weight loss over three years, while those on a low-carb diet tended to re-gain.
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- Emergency Medicine
- Saving Lives with Cell Phones
- CPR coaching through a cell phone audio recording is one way to help bystanders overcome their fears and save lives in real time.
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- Emergency Medicine
- Race Against Time
- Forty-five percent of Americans – 135 million people – are more than an hour away from the facilities that are best equipped to care for them if they have a stroke.
- Emergency Medicine
- A Rapid Blood Test to Rule Out Appendicitis?
- A new test may save patients from unnecessary radiation from a diagnostic CT scan, eliminate extra tests and hours of hospital observation, and cut costs in the process.
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- History of Health Care
- Would You Want to Have a Baby in 1798?
- A session at Pennsylvania Hospital's History of Women's Health Conference explores how Lying-In Wards transformed into major medical centers offering state-of-the-art care.
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February |
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Women's Health News Bites |
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- Dermatology Research
- Severe Psoriasis Increases Heart Disease Risk
- Penn Medicine researchers found that people with severe psoriasis were nearly 60 percent more likely to die from heart-related causes and stroke than those without psoriasis.
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December |
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Basic Science News Bites |
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- Orthopaedics Research
 Throwing Their Backs into Regenerative Medicine- In order for tissue grown in the lab to replace damaged or diseased tissue in the body, it needs to withstand complex mechanical loads – large forces regularly experienced over a lifetime of daily activities.
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- Cell Biology
 Cheating a Cell's Demise - The lifespan of normal human cells is determined in part by telomeres – the DNA-protein structures that cap the beginnings and ends of chromosomes.
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- Neuroscience Research
 Prion-Busting Cocktails- Prions are proteins that act like germs, infecting healthy tissue and causing havoc in the body. Their extreme stability and shape-shifting abilities make prions exceptionally difficult drug targets.
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- Diabetes Research
 New Insights on Insulin Resistance- The overwhelming majority of type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant, which means their bodies are unable to respond to and use the insulin they produce.
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- Genetics Research
 Zebrafish Model of Common Genetic Disorder- Because zebrafish develop rapidly, are transparent when young, and can be easily bred in large numbers, this new animal model will dramatically increase the screening capacity for a common human inherited disorder.
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November |
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Women's Health News Bites |
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- Cancer Research
- Beating Breast Cancer Drug Side Effects
- Aromatase inhibitors, the same drugs that have buoyed long-term survival rates among breast cancer patients, also carry side effects including joint pain so severe that many patients discontinue these lifesaving medicines.
- Cancer Research
- Protein Predicts Development of Invasive Breast Cancer
- Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) – which accounts for more than 20 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses in the United States – who exhibit an overexpression of the protein HER2/neu have a six-fold increase in risk of invasive breast cancer.
- Aging Research
- Hormone Helps Elderly Women Banish Frailty
- A new treatment may help frail older women to bulk up and reduce their chance of suffering injuries or developing disabilities caused by their weakness.
- Emergency Medicine
- A Gender Gap on Board Ambulances?
- Women with chest pain are less likely than male patients to receive recommended, proven therapies while en route to the hospital, according to new research.
- Cancer Care
- Planning for Life After Cancer
- A new partnership is providing cancer patients with a free online tool to map out a plan to keep them healthy as they transition to life as one of the nation’s 12 million cancer survivors.
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