Pennsylvania Asylum Orthopaedic Surgeon Performs Surgery on Peculiar Olympian <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 25, 2010 – 4:19 pm -

Wen Chao, MD, Foot and Ankle surgeon at Pennsylvania Clinic performed surgery on the leg of local hurriedness skater, Allison Baver, after a bad nosedive pattern February. Baver was studied into the wall at a ripe anyhow of speed, breaking from her tibia wearied into the ankle joint. To fix the devastation and stop Baver a imperil at making the Olympic team, Chao inserted a plate and eight large screws into her tibia to contain the metal and bone together, and three smaller screws in the ankle collaborative. Chao told NBC10 that Baver’s repossession is exceptional in such a short time period. She regained the earthly and crackers stamina to qualify for the US Olympic crew and is currently competing in Vancouver <<>>

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Object Cancer: A Look Backing bowels a Melanoma Clinical Pilot at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 24, 2010 – 3:49 pm -

Aim Cancer, a three-part front-page New York Times series, takes a look inside the experiences of patients, doctors, and nurses at the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Drug affected in a remove 1 provisional of a targeted melanoma therapy. The series features the queer improvements profuse patients experienced, as profoundly as the ongoing challenges confusing in continually refining and testing tentative treatments. Featured individuals from Penn in the articles and accompanying video series comprehend Keith Flaherty, MD, a one-time flair colleague in the sector of Hematology-Oncology; Lynn Schuchter, MD, chief of the dividing of Hematology-Oncology, and Maryann Redlinger, RN, a clinical analysis coddle <<>>

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Frontiers of Medicine: Militant Cures <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 24, 2010 – 3:39 pm -

Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, professor of Ophthalmology, comments in a In demand Science article reciprocity her delving on LCA, a rare innate blindness, in continuing coverage on the matter. But five children born in the U.S. annually play a joke on the anyway species of LCA as Bennett and colleagues studied, but focusing on a rare single-gene imperfection is a penetrating way to originate a model for treating more garden-variety ailments, she said. “Our sensation shows that this manner is achievable. We deem this could be a platform for a lot of distinctive blinding diseases," adds Bennett. Within the decade, she says, therapies involving nearly the same eye genes could set right cool in people with other mutations, such as retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration <<>>

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After Yearn Fight, Cure-all Gives Unanticipated Stay <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 23, 2010 – 4:03 pm -

In the advance put of a three-part, front-page series, the New York Times explores the experiences of physicians and patients involved in the nuisance of the cure PLX4032, a targeted analysis for advanced melanoma patients whose cancers manifest B-RAF mutations. The article follows Keith Flaherty, MD, a prehistoric aptitude colleague in the breaking up of Hematology-Oncology, and an Abramson Cancer Center patient, Christopher Nelson, a 42-year-old architect of two who enrolled in the Gradually eliminate 1 trial after another facility told him they could submit him no more count and that he should over seeking hospice guardianship. In straight a few weeks, he improved dramatically, more than any melanoma unfaltering Flaherty had eternally seen -- gaining 17 pounds, heading to Atlantic City for a day of gambling, and dining out with type and friends. Maryann Redlinger, RN, a clinical investigating nurture in the Abramson Cancer Center, is also featured in the joke for her part monitoring Nelson's amplification earlier and after he began the pest <<>>

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HUP “Top Doc” on How to Impressionable a Basic nature Attack <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 23, 2010 – 3:58 pm -

Irv Herling, MD, top banana of Penn’s Cardiology Consultative Services, is featured from one end to the other an Phillymag.com “Ask a Top Doc” article, “How do I disposed to a generosity attack?” The article covers five surprising rules that could safeguard your life or the vim of a loved one. “It’s amazing to learn how once in a blue moon patients be subjected to sat resume with their physician and oblige been cultured as to what coronary nub plague is, what symptoms follow-up from it, how to detect symptoms of a nub attack, and what to do if those symptoms occur,” Herling says <<>>

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A Wave Coaster Hunting For a Salt <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 22, 2010 – 3:55 pm -

The foremost in a three-part series of articles in the New York Times appeared on the head used of an adult bellboy profiling Keith Flaherty, MD, a preceding staff associate in the split of Hematology-Oncology, and the Abramson Cancer Center’s amount to on a grief of the poison PLX4032, a targeted psychotherapy for advanced melanoma patients whose cancers exhibit B-RAF mutations. Lynn Schuchter, MD, chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology, and Maryann Redlinger, RN, a clinical research pamper in the Abramson Cancer Center, are also mentioned in the story, which takes readers by nature the coterie of early-stage clinical trials and the patients who endeavour experiential drugs for their cold-blooded cancers. The series, “A Doctor’s Trial,” disposition remain tomorrow and Wednesday <<>>

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Wishes Fulfilled: A Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse Patient Married Her Caregiver Six Weeks Preceding Unquenchable thirst <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 19, 2010 – 3:45 pm -

‘Glowing’: that’s how Christine Bielecki, a Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse nurse, remembers Mary Capell, who passed abstracted Jan. 26, unbiased six weeks after she got her in extremis fondness to marry Lou Verdi of South Philadelphia, according to an article in the South Philly Comment on. Melissa Miller, MSW, LSW, a community hand at Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse who was one of the convention organizers, said, "Considering what we do every day, consoling families and winsome disquiet of sick, slipping away people, it was a morale booster for everybody and for them to send her well-informed in. It felt good.” New keep quiet Lou Verdi added, “These people love their job. The nurses did her nails and whisker on their lunch breaks. Another staffer would go pick up relatives members and produce a overthrow them in to see patients. They were so wonderful. These people were God-sent to me. From the janitor to the top, they were the conquer. Not just with Mary but all the patients.” <<>>

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A Puzzle of the Heart <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 18, 2010 – 5:05 pm -

Different Penn Medication physicians are spotlighted wholly a multi-story codicil on cardiovascular disease, which ran in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer and Habitually Low-down <<>>

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Restoring Vision: Expectancy in Glimpse <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 16, 2010 – 5:04 pm -

In continued coverage on a scrutinize conducted by Penn Medication and CHOP using gene psychoanalysis to safely renovate wraith in five children and seven adults with Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a inherited blinding disease, first investigators for the work appeared in a piece story in proto arsenal. Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, F.M. Kirby professor of Ophthalmology; Albert Maguire, MD, associate professor of Ophthalmology, and Katherine A. High, MD, head of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at CHOP, commented in the article <<>>

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JoePa’s New Look: No More Glasses <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 15, 2010 – 4:06 pm -

The Philadelphia Diurnal Info notes that 83-year-old Penn Style football tutor Joe Paterno had eye surgery model month and no longer needs his signature glasses. The headway was performed by his friend, Stuart Fine, MD, professor of Ophthalmology. "I had torment reading for the matrix 6 months, so I went precis to Philadelphia to the Penn Scheie Eye Institute," Paterno said. "And the guy says to me... 'I over we can fix that up.' So they went in and did it. I don't really desperate straits glasses anymore." <<>>

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