On Friday, doctors-to-be from the Perelman School of Medicine gathered at the historical Harrison Auditorium at the Penn Museum, with its coffered dome and stone walls, to celebrate Match Day--the annual event where medical students from across the country find out where they're headed for residency training. There was a...

When Kenneth Rockwell Jr, PharmD, MS, director of the Investigational Drug Service (IDS) at Penn Medicine, started 21 years ago, the research pharmacy was a one-man operation. Since then, IDS – tasked with managing research medications used in clinical drug trials throughout Penn and many of its affiliates – has...

The general findings that cognitive neuroscientist Martha J. Farah, PhD, reported at the beginning of her recent talk on Penn’s campus were grim: the poorer you are, the more depressed you are; a child’s IQ is related to family income; psychological well-being and intelligence both depend on the brain; low...

Each year, medical students across the country count down to annual “Match Day,” which marks one of the most important days in a student's career. On Friday, March 18, the students will come together with their classmates and wait for the envelope that will tell them where they are headed...

"People look at me and say, ‘You don’t have the right to say you have a disability.’” Ben Richards, US Army Major (Ret) Nine years ago, a suicide car bomber in Iraq smashed into the armored vehicle in which Ben Richards and his men were riding. Although the blast wave...

On this blog, we frequently write about what it’s like to work for — or experience life at — Penn Medicine. What we don’t get the chance to write about very often is what it’s like to see the University of Pennsylvania Health System from the other side: as a...

Of all of the volumes in Pennsylvania Hospital’s Historic Library, Stacey Peeples, the hospital’s curator-lead archivist, said her favorites are the botanical and natural history studies. Those texts were written and illustrated by some of the earliest researchers to document the flora and fauna of the East Coast. “I love...

Each year, medical students across the country count down to annual “Match Day,” which marks one of the most important days in a student's career. On Friday, March 18, the students will come together with their classmates and wait for the envelope that will tell them where they are headed...

The body needs just the right amount of iron, otherwise all manner of havoc happens. Too little iron and the body malfunctions because it carries oxygen to all the cells. Roughly two-thirds of the mineral resides in hemoglobin, the oxygen-transporting protein in red blood cells. And if the body doesn’t...

Each year, medical students across the country count down to annual “Match Day,” which marks one of the most important days in a student's career. Friday, March 18, they will come together with their classmates and wait for the envelope that will tell them where they are headed for their...