A new study published by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , the Broad Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital, challenges the conventional concept that raising a person's HDL levels (good cholesterol) will always help lower their risk of a heart attack.

A team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania found that the FDA-approved drug daclizumab improved the survival of breast cancer patients taking a cancer vaccine by 30 percent, compared to those patients not taking daclizumab.

Most people take gravity for granted. But for University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist Bhuvnesh Jain , the nature of gravity is the question of a lifetime.

wo drugs commonly used to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) yield similar improvements in vision for patients receiving treatments on a monthly or as-needed basis, according to a study from researchers at the Center for Preventive Ophthalmology and Biostatistics (CPOB) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania .

Philadelphia, PA - The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education ( Penn GSE ) and the Milken Family Foundation have announced the finalists of the 2012 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC).

Given how much time and money American political parties spend in redistricting, they may want to consider how voters are assigned to particular polling locations.

Targeted drug delivery is one of the more enticing applications of nanotechnology; by designing pharmaceuticals on an atomic scale, engineers hope to get them attacking diseases with newfound precision and efficiency.

Black cardiac arrest victims who are stricken outside hospitals are less likely to receive bystander CPR and defibrillation on the scene than white patients, according to research that will be presented by a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today at the annual meeting of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

When the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, 2010, residents feared that their Gulf of Mexico shores would be inundated with oil.

Beginning July 1, the University of Pennsylvania will provide a tax offset of as much as $125 per month for employees who are covering same-sex domestic partners under their Penn medical plans, with a maximum of $1,500 per year.

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Winners of the collaborative Morris Arboretum-Woodmere Art Museum exhibit, 'Take a Seat!' have been announced.

The goal of a hospital it to make patients well, but hospital-acquired infections can result in just the opposite.