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Public Health Management Corporation, Penn Medicine, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic and Independence Blue Cross to Launch Innovative Health Care Collaboration in West Philadelphia September 24, 2020 A coalition of the region’s premier health care organizations announced today their intention to join forces to transform Mercy Philadelphia into a thriving, reimagined campus built on a guiding principle to provide high-quality, community-informed health care and services at an innovative public health campus designed to serve the needs of the facility’s West Philadelphia neighbors.
Multi-Pronged Intervention Reduces IV Opioid Use in Hospitalized Patients with IBD September 24, 2020 After instituting a strategy to minimize intraveneous (IV) opioid treatment for hospitalized patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a study at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania showed that, in the months after the interventions, patients had decreased opioid exposure.
Is Your Drinking Water Toxic? This App May Help You Find Out. September 22, 2020 Exposure to hydraulic fracturing fluid in drinking water has been shown to increase the risk of respiratory problems, premature births, congenital heart defects, and other negative health consequences.
Novel Dual CAR T Cell immunotherapy Holds Promise for Targeting The HIV Reservoir September 21, 2020 A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, led by researchers James Riley, PhD, a professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Todd Allen, PhD, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Group Leader at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, describes a new Dual CAR T cell immunotherapy that can help fight HIV infection.
Penn Researchers Discover Potential Cause of Immunotherapy-Related Neurotoxicity, Chart Path Forward September 21, 2020 New research has uncovered the previously unknown presence of CD19 — a B cell molecule targeted by chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy to treat leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma — in brain cells that protect the blood brain barrier (BBB).

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