Penn Medicine in the News

Women with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Have Greater Response to Treatment than Men, Penn Study Finds
26 Sep 2011
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients of different sexes and races may respond differently to treatment with commonly used medications for the disease, says a new study from researchers at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tracing an Elusive Killer Parasite in Peru
26 Sep 2011
Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, not all epidemics involve people suffering from zombie-like symptoms--some can only be uncovered through door-to-door epidemiology and advanced mathematics.

Penn Study Indicates Atrial Fibrillation May Be Root Cause of Some Severe Mitral Regurgitation Cases
20 Sep 2011
Mitral regurgitation is a common heart valve disorder, where blood flows backwards through the mitral valve when the heart contracts and reduces the amount of blood that is pumped out to the body.

Enzymes Possible Targets for New Anti-Malaria Drugs, According to Penn-led Study
19 Sep 2011
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Monash University, and Virginia Tech have used a set of novel inhibitors to analyze how the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, uses enzymes to chew up human hemoglobin from host red blood cells as a food source.

Penn Pharmacologist Receives Grant from Prostate Cancer Foundation to Find New Ways to Fight Drug Resistant Tumors
15 Sep 2011
Trevor Penning, PhD, professor of Pharmacology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues have received a 2011 Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Award.

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