Unmasking Truths Unraveling Stories
Unmasking Truths Unraveling Stories
By Ella Eisinger Ella Eisinger Ella Eisinger is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. The essay below was a winner in this year’s American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Building Trust Essay Contest, which explores the projects and initiatives by students in health professions around the theme of […]
Klauser performing earlier this year. Photo by Eric Lee. As a lifelong performer who began her professional career singing opera music and now produces music for other artists, teaches aspiring musicians, and has performed with many different musical projects over the years, Mattie Chaya Kimberly “Kimi” Klauser is accustomed to living in the stage lights. […]
Are psychedelic drugs about to begin a long, strange trip toward use in a clinical setting? Or do the challenges of studying psychedelics, and the ethical risks of therapy, raise too many questions to introduce them into mainstream medicine? As debate continues if—and how—psychedelics should be used, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recently […]
Ashlee (right) is holding Eleanor who is two years old this month and her partner Lauren (left) is holding Edie who was born in February 2024. When Ashlee Rineer and her wife Lauren began fertility treatments in 2020 they were driving back and forth to Radnor, PA—about 75 minutes each way before they started their […]
Physical and sexual abuse, having parents who misuse substances, and witnessing violent crime are tragic events that don’t remain locked in a single point in time. Rather, they are termed adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and 64 percent of American adults who participated in a recent survey reported experiencing at least one ACE prior to turning […]
Photo by © ASCO/Phil McCarten 2024 Lynn Schuchter, MD, recently completed her term as the 2023-2024 President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)—the leading professional society for cancer care—as part of a career that began at Penn Medicine 30 years ago. Over those three decades, Schuchter has witnessed remarkable progress in cancer care and survivorship, […]
The award-winning documentary “Of Medicine and Miracles” details the emotional journey of one family alongside a team of Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) doctors who developed a revolutionary cancer cure with CAR T cell therapy technology and is now available to watch for the first time on major streaming platforms, including Apple […]
The first few waves of COVID-19 slowed life across the United States, affecting everything from attending school to eating out for dinner and going on vacation. Segments of health care were also affected: Services that were not considered immediately crucial to fighting the virus were slowed or stopped during the pandemic’s first wave. But once […]
U.S. Women’s Open Trophy at Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, PA. Copyright USGA/ Jason E. Miczek Beginning May 28, more than 100,000 spectators will line the fairways at the Lancaster Country Club for the U.S. Women’s Open golf championship. While most will leave with only happy memories, for others, an unexpected illness and injury will […]
