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Analysis found that the number of OUD patients who left the hospital before completing treatment increased between 2016 and 2020. Nearly half of early discharges occurred before the third day, when withdrawal symptoms are most severe.

Richard C. Wender, MD, a longtime Family and Community Medicine professor and physician in Philadelphia, has been named chair of Family Medicine and Community Health in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

While walking a dog provides older Americans with a valuable outlet for regular, physical activity, a Penn Medicine study has shown that fractures related to these walks have more than doubled between 2004 and 2017 in patients 65 and older. In this population, 78 percent of the fractures occurred in women, with hip and upper extremity breaks being the most common.

Intensive behavioral therapy (IBT), which provides diet and physical activity counseling, is now proven to help adults with obesity achieve meaningful weight loss in six to 12 months.

Penn Medicine will break ground Friday on a state-of-the-art, four-story, 250,000-square-foot multispecialty outpatient facility in Radnor, Pa., that will expand options for patients to receive advanced care close to home.

Patients who suffer from Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease (AERD) often experience an additional allergic reaction when drinking alcohol, including nasal congestion, wheezing, and a runny nose. Now a new study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania finds a common treatment for AERD - aspirin desensitization - can also help alleviate the alcohol-induced symptoms of the condition.

From the moment a baby is born, they are put through a battery of screenings to test for all sorts of characteristics, which includes the sense of hearing. One in 500 newborns fail their newborn hearing screens and are diagnosed with hearing loss, making this the most prevalent sensory deficit in humans.