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Treatment Doctor Tested On Himself Can Put Others into Remission August 13, 2019 Five years ago, David C. Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, both a Penn Medicine researcher and patient, tried an experimental treatment based on his laboratory research findings in the hopes of saving his own life.
Could NFL Players’ Performance After A Concussion Mask The Dangers? August 12, 2019 While more light is being shed on the effects that concussions have on player performance, the researchers sought to examine how athletic performance was affected immediately, which has not been studied extensively. The research was published in American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Balance of “Stop” and “Go” Signaling Could Be Key to Cancer Immunotherapy Response August 8, 2019 A crucial signaling pathway that can tell the immune system to fight off cancer can also be co-opted by cancer cells to put the brakes on the immune system, according to a new study from researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Measuring the Brain’s Amyloid Buildup Less Effective in Identifying Severity, Progression of Alzehimer’s Disease Compared to Other Imaging Methods August 6, 2019 While the presence of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain may be a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, giving patients an amyloid PET scan is not an effective method for measuring their cognitive function, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University.
Measuring the Brain’s Amyloid Buildup Less Effective in Identifying Severity, Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease Compared to Other Imaging Methods August 6, 2019 While the presence of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain may be a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, giving patients an amyloid PET scan is not an effective method for measuring their cognitive function, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University.

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Next Phase in Effective Cost Control in Health Care.
Glickman A, DiMagno SSP, Emanuel EJ JAMA. 2019 Mar 26;321(12):1151-1152
Author Correction: Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing.
Kunkle BW, Grenier-Boley B, Sims R, Bis JC, Damotte V, Naj AC, Boland A, Vronskaya M,... Nat Genet. 2019 Aug 15
Effect of Home-Based Exercise and Weight Loss Programs on Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema Outcomes Among Overweight Breast Cancer Survivors: The WISER Survivor Randomized Clinical Trial.
Schmitz KH, Troxel AB, Dean LT, DeMichele A, Brown JC, Sturgeon K, Zhang Z, Evangelisti M,... JAMA Oncol. 2019 Aug 15
Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Diarrhea.
Hamilton KW, Cifu AS JAMA. 2019 Mar 05;321(9):891-892
The E3 ubiquitin ligase SPOP controls resolution of systemic inflammation by triggering MYD88 degradation.
Guillamot M, Ouazia D, Dolgalev I, Yeung ST, Kourtis N, Dai Y, Corrigan K, Zea-Redondo L, Saraf A,... Nat Immunol. 2019 Aug 12

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