Cooling treatment after cardiac arrest is cost-effective, Penn study shows

(PHILADELPHIA) A brain-preserving cooling treatment called therapeutic hypothermia is a cost-effective way to improve outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which claims the lives of more than 300,000 people each year in the United States and leaves thousands of others neurologically dev...

Post-Recession Incomes Will Be Hit Hard by Health Care Spending for Middle Class Working Families, PENN Analysis Shows

PHILADELPHIA, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a post-recession America, even though as a nation income levels may rise, middle class families still won't be shielded from the crushing burden of health care costs and will watch their standards of living continue to erode, according ...

Bone from blood: Circulating cells form bone outside the normal skeleton, Penn study finds

PHILADELPHIA The accepted dogma has been that bone-forming cells, derived from the body's connective tissue, are the only cells able to form the skeleton. However, new research shows that specialized cells in the blood share a common origin with white blood cells derived from the bone marrow and t...

West Penn Hospital Named Winner of 2009 Premier Award for Quality

Premier healthcare alliance has once again recognized The Western Pennsylvania Hospital for its commitment to outstanding patient care and operational efficiency. West Penn is one of just 23 hospitals in the country and the only healthcare provider in the region to win Premier’s 2009 Award...

LIVESTRONG and Penn Medicine announce partnership to bring online care plan tool to cancer survivors

AUSTIN, Texas; PHILADELPHIA The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) and Penn Medicine announced today a four-year partnership to further develop and disseminate the LIVESTRONG Care Plan Powered by Penn Medicine's OncoLink. This free service gives cancer survivors, their families and physicians the a...

West Penn Allegheny Health System Files Lawsuit Charging UPMC, Highmark with Conspiracy, Antitrust

Suit Charges Companies Exploited Community, Overcharging Employers and Driving Up Healthcare Costs PITTSBURGH, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) yesterday filed a complaint in United States District Court against UPMC, Pittsburgh's dominant hospit...

World's First Portable, Battery-Operated, Equine-Dedicated CT Solution Installed at Penn Vet's New Bolton Center

"Unique portability . . . Fast scan . . . low operating cost," says veterinary school's clinician KENNETT SQUARE, Pa., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Medical Systems, Inc. (UMS) of Ohio, the leading worldwide supplier of innovative veterinary computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance...

Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company Introduces Innovative Approach to Shopping for Life Insurance With EZissuelife.com

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company today introduced a new website for consumers, EZissuelife.com, an easy-to-understand, do-it-yourself approach to buying term and permanent whole life insurance. The new site offers a simple and convenient way to appl...

Living with females extends the reproductive life of the male mouse, says Penn veterinary researcher

PHILADELPHIA - Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent, according to a study conducted by Ralph Brinster and a team of other researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. The study was reported online toda...

Newly discovered esophagus stem cells grow into transplantable tissue, Penn study finds

PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered stem cells in the esophagus of mice that were able to grow into tissue-like structures and when placed into immune-deficient mice were able to form parts of an esophagus lining. The investigators report ...

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ADHD Genes Found; Known to Play Roles in Neurodevelopment

...d the ADHD: Climbing to a Cure Foundation. Elia, White and Hakonarson all are faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ( penn ). Xiaowu Gai, Ph.D., of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Children's Hospital, was a co-first author with Elia. Other collaborators were from ...

Autism Studies Presented at Mid-Atlantic Research Consortium Meeting

...dkoff, M.D., director of the IDDRC at Children's Hospital, and a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. CHOP and penn , along with Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the Kennedy Krieger Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, com...

Processed Tomato Products May Protect Against Inflammation, According to a Study Presented at the Experimental Biology Meeting

...ct against chronic disease, researchers from the University of California, Davis , National Center for Food Safety & Technology in Illinois, and penn State University investigated the effects of processed tomato products on vasodilatation (another target for lowering disease through dietary strateg...

Rendell Administration Announces Health Research Grants From Tobacco Settlement Funds

...ASD. The studies are based at CHOP's new Center for Autism Research, a collaborative center of emphasis that draws upon faculty and staff at CHOP and penn in more than ten different disciplines. Researchers will study how recently discovered genes for ASD affect the brain and behavior of children with a...

Inverseon's Founder and SAB Member Published in PNAS

...e Professor of Medicine at Duke University , and there is an accompanying supportive commentary on this essential asthma signaling pathway by Raymond penn of the University of Maryland School of Medicine . "This work using knockout mice confirms prior results from Bond and collaborators using inve...

Study Suggests New Treatment Approach May be Needed for Management of Depression in Some People With Bipolar Disorder

...castle University, Newcastle, England; Jim Mintz, Ph.D., University of Texas San Antonio ; Robert Post, M.D., George Washington School of Medicine , penn State College School of Medicine and Bipolar Collaborative Network, Bethesda, Md.; and Trisha Suppes, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Universi...

Researchers Discover Metabolite Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

...Subramaniam Pennathur, John T. Wei and Sooryanarayana Varambally. From Metabolon Inc.: Danny C. Alexander, Alvin Berger and Jeffrey R. Shuster. From penn State University : Debashis Ghosh. Funding: National Cancer Institute Early Detection Research Network, National Institutes of Health, an MTTC ...

TorreyPines Therapeutics Muscarinic Agonist NGX267 Meets Primary Endpoint in a Phase II Clinical Trial in Patients with Xerostomia

...al investigator Frederick B. Vivino, M.D., Chief, Division of Rheumatology, penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Director of the penn Sjogren's Syndrome Center. "NGX267 appears to be efficacious, safe and well...

ViroPharma Announces Presentation of Cinryze(TM) Data in Acute Treatment of Hereditary Angioedema

...ommon practice; a consensus statement may lead to improved and earlier diagnosis of patients with HAE," said Timothy Craig, DO, professor of medicine, penn State University, who co-presented the survey data. "These findings indicate that testing family members for HAE should be a primary concern for those...

SELECT TRIAL Used Selenomethionine Instead of High-Selenium Yeast, SelenoExcell(R) - Previous Research has Shown SelenoExcell(R) Supplementation to Reduce Lung, Colon and Prostate Cancers by as Much as 63%, Says Cypress Systems, Inc.

...icrograms per day of selenium in the form of SelenoExcell(R) reduced the incidences of lung, colon, and prostate cancers by 50-63%. Researchers at the penn State University Cancer Institute found that supplementation with SelenoExcell(R), reduced serum PSA levels, a risk indicator for prostate cancer (El-...

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...a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella ... On average, 3 cases of typhoid fever are reported in Indiana every year. ... penn State Hershey Medical Center provides world class care and ... Each year, physicians diagnose about 400 cases of typhoid fever in the United Sta...

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'Shortcuts' of the mind lead to miscalculations of weight and caloric intake, says Penn study

PHILADELPHIA - Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a cognitive shortcut, or heuristic, they call "Unit Bias," which causes people to ignore vital, obvious information in their decision-making process, points to a fundamental flaw in the modern, evolved mind and may also...

Enzyme involved in inflammatory bowel disease discovered at Penn State College of Medicine

Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, working with biochemists, geneticists and clinicians at the University of Bern, Switzerland and in the United Kingdom, have discovered an enzyme that has a key role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The team, co-led by Judith Bond, Ph.D., Distingui...

Brain structure assists in immune response, according to Penn vet study

PHILADELPHIA - For the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have imaged in real time the body's immune response to a parasitic infection in the brain. The findings provide unexpected insights into how immune cells are regulated in the...

Penn announces $50M Penn Integrates Knowledge neurosciences initiative

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania will make a major investment in neuroscience, the interdisciplinary study of brain/behavior relationships and nervous-system diseases, with a $50 million contribution from Penn's Health System to endow five new Penn Integrates Knowledge (P...

From Canada to the Caribbean: Tree leaves control their own temperature, Penn study reveals

PHILADELPHIA - The temperature inside a healthy, photosynthesizing tree leaf is affected less by outside environmental temperature than originally believed, according to new research from biologists at the University of Pennsylvania. Surveying 39 tree species ranging in location from subtropic...

Haagen-Dazs gift to support Penn State honeybee research

As the pollination season approaches in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, scientists at Penn State and elsewhere continue to seek answers to the decline of the nation's honeybees and other pollinators, which are critical to the production of $15 billion worth of crops in the United States. To assist...

Snoozing worms help Penn researchers explain the evolution of sleep

PHILADELPHIA The roundworm C. elegans, a staple of laboratory research, may be key in unlocking one of the central biological mysteries: why we sleep. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report in this weeks advanced online edition of Nature that the round worm has a...

'Heftier' atoms reduce friction at the nanoscale, study led by Penn researcher reveals

PHILADELPHIA - A research team led by a University of Pennsylvania mechanical engineer has discovered that friction between two sliding bodies can be reduced at the molecular, or nanoscale, level by changing the mass of the atoms at the surface. Heavier atoms vibrate at a lower frequency, reducin...

Stem cell nuclei are soft 'hard drives,' Penn study finds

Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that the nuclei of human stem cells are particularly soft and flexible, rather than hard, making it easier for stem cells to migrate through the body and to adopt different shapes, but ultimately to put human genes in the correct nucle...

Childhood obesity indicates greater risk of school absenteeism, Penn study reveals

In the first study of how weight may affect school attendance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have found that overweight children are at greater risk of school absenteeism than their normal-weight peers. The study of more than a thousand 4th, 5th and 6th grade...

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Lockheed Martin Invests in Smart Grid Research and Development at Penn State University

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) has partnered with Penn State University to develop innovative solutions for the energy sector. As part of the corporation's commitment to tackling critical national energy challenges, Lockheed Martin will fund $400,000...

ERYtech Pharma Signs an Agreement With the Penn Jersey Region of American Red Cross

PHILADELPHIA and LYON, France, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ERYtech Pharma, French Biotechnology Company, and the Penn Jersey Region of American Red Cross are pleased to announce the signature of an agreement concerning the GMP clinical batches production of ERYtech Pharma's products in the ...

West Penn Allegheny Health System Announces Recruitment of Leading Burn Specialists

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Officials of the West Penn Allegheny Health System and The Western Pennsylvania Hospital announced today the recruitment of nationally recognized burn surgeons Larry M. Jones, MD, FACS, and Roger R. Barrette, MD, formerly of the UPMC-Mercy Trauma and Burn Cen...

Surface dislocation nucleation: Strength is but skin deep at the nanoscale, Penn engineers discover

PHILADELPHIA - For centuries, engineers have bent and torn metals to test their strength and ductility. Now, materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science are studying the same metals but at nanoscale sizes in the form of wires a thousand times th...

A billion-year ultra-dense memory chip

...uthoring the paper with Zettl were Gavi Begtrup, Will Gannett and Tom Yuzvinsky, all members of his research group, plus Vincent Crespi, a theorist at penn State University. The ever-growing demand for digital storage of videos, images, music and text calls for storage media that pack increasingly mor...

Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

...hlorophyll molecules make green bacteria extremely efficient at harvesting light," said Donald Bryant, Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology at penn State and one of the team's leaders. According to Bryant, green bacteria are a group of organisms that generally live in extremely low-light environm...

Concerned Shareholders of Biovail Announce - Independent Nominees for Election to Biovail Board of Directors - A Focused Commitment to Governance at Biovail

...Canadian Tire Bank. He is a Director of Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited, penn West Energy Trust, Softchoice Corporation, Sentry Select Capital Corp., a p...Canadian Tire Bank. He is a Director of Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited, penn West Energy Trust, Softchoice Corporation, Sentry Select Capital Corp., a p...

Heart Health Month Milestone: Half a Billion Pounds of Bad Fats Eliminated From North American Diet

...oblems. "Trans and saturated fats increase the risk for a variety of heart conditions," said Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor at penn State University's Nutritional Sciences Department. "So this Heart Health Month, we encourage people to ask their favorite restaurants to use healthi...

'Museomics' yields new insights into extinct Tasmanian tiger

...in insight into the microbial flora that lives on the exhibit samples and help to develop means to further protect them," said Dr. Stephan Schuster of penn State University, also an author of the report. This work has established the groundwork for more detailed genetic analysis of the thylacine, opene...

Easy assembly of electronic biological chips

...owires onto integrated circuit chips, according to penn State researchers. "Probably one of the most imp...rofessor of electrical engineering and director of penn State's Nanofabrication Laboratory. "We need to co...rea where they want the nanowires to assemble. The penn State researchers inject a mixture of the tagged n...

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