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Can Twitter help with health insurance enrollment?

The use of Twitter in healthcare has already shown beneficial uses in tracking risk for heart disease and for medical research, but a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that tweets are also associated with an increase in state-level enrollment in health insurance marketplaces established under the […]

Penn Medicine, March of Dimes seek better understanding of preterm births

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the March of Dimes Foundation announced the establishment of a new $10 million center to study preterm births led by physicians and researchers from the University’s Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The Prematurity Research Center  will focus on projects aimed at discovering the causes of preterm […]

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University of Pennsylvania to offer free online classes on personalized medicine, genomes

The University of Pennsylvania medical school is participating in an online education venture to provide free university seminars to the public on courses such as personalized medicine, vaccines and genomes. The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will initially offer six courses on Coursera’s network that cover healthcare, medicine and biology and […]

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PTSD research team gets $3.5 million Defense Department grant

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $3.5 million grant for a research project to more effectively treat post-traumatic stress disorder and ultimately prevent it from occurring. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant awarded to an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s […]

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Sports concussion research funded at University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania has won funding for a study of a concussion treatment for athletes. Dr. Peter LeRoux, associate professor of neurosurgery, won the $250,000, three-year Dana Foundation Clinical Neuroscience grant. Dr. Akiva S. Cohen is an associate professor of neurology, neurosurgery and pediatrics at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. […]

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Penn medical school gets $16 million for neuroscience research

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has received a $16.3 million anonymous donation for a neuroscience research initiative, one of the largest donations received by the medical school, according to a press statement. The neuroscience of behavior initiative led by Dr. Brian Strom, the chair and professor of biostatistics […]

Health IT

10 startups from mHealth 2011: Meddik

Launched by Tim Soo, a student at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ben Shyong, a developer and entrepreneur at University of Pennsylvania, Meddik is a search engine designed to help users wade though the daunting amount of healthcare information available on the Internet and pare it down to a manageable level that targets the specific areas one user may be interested in reading about.

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How physicians can persuade the public

When Rudy Giuliani and Joe Torre criticized the new guidelines for prostate screening that recommended against routine screening for healthy men, it was a big story. Not only did the guidelines overturn years of proactive, preventive care advice, but here were a couple of celebrities who battled prostate cancer successfully because it was caught in […]