How many clean syringes were handed out last year by Prevention Point Philadelphia, a local harm reduction nonprofit that provides a wide array of social services to addicts? That question was posed to the audience gathered at Presby’s PHI building to listen to Brian Work, MD, MPH, an assistant professor...

Since Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin nearly 100 years ago in 1928, antibiotics have been used to help treat infections and save millions of lives around the world.

Randy Olson, PhD, a senior data scientist with Penn’s Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI), started publishing optimized road trip maps -- a modern Trip Tik of sorts -- while still a graduate student at Michigan State University in 2014. They’ve remain a big hit on social media and in the...

“They didn’t think I was going to make it at first, and they said it was only because of Gary Booz and his quick actions that I’m alive right now and am doing as well as I am.” That was Lynette Wimer, a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service,...

As our seasons get ever more bizarre in duration, behavior, and intensity—last year, much of the east coast’s dreams of a white Christmas were dashed hard against the rocks of a December 25th so warm you could break out your board shorts and drive with the windows down—the annual creep...

Now that we’re well into September, many families are settling into the swing of school schedules, band practices, dance lessons and packed daily agendas. With so much running around going on from September to June, it can be easy to lose sight of keeping up a healthy diet and active...

If you’ve walked the halls of the Trauma Center at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in the last few months, there’s a chance you’ve come across Alisha Sawant. She’s the positively beaming volunteer with a permanent smile who often greets friends and family of patients, and generally helps out on the...

Accompanied by her family, Patricia Gabow holds her Distinguished Graduate Award. By now, Patricia A. Gabow, MD 1969, GME 1973, is probably used to standing out in a crowd. As a student in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine, she was one of only six women to graduate in...

When German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895, it was clearly groundbreaking. Less than a year later, three doctors at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (J. William White, chief of surgery; Charles Lester Leonard, HUP’s first radiologist; and physicist Arthur Goodspeed) published an article describing the many...

Penn Medicine's Patrick K. Kim, MD, Trauma Program Director for the Penn Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care & Emergency Surgery, answers questions from a group of Philadelphia nurses on wound care and tourniquet application. While students were picking out their outfits and sharpening pencils, and teachers were preparing their...