“This is the first study to provide evidence for physicians to justify a lymphoma-dose regimen of rituximab when treating their patients wit

“We tend to think of this disease as a children’s disease, but our data show that’s not the case,” said the study’s lead author Dr. Zelma C.

"Based on the results of this study, the use of topical agents just before radiation therapy can be safely liberalized, which may impro

A perturbed skin microbiome resulting from cutaneous leishmaniasis can be ‘contagious’, promoting skin inflammation in other subjects, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania report online in Cell Host & Microbe (June 29, 2017). In their research, the investigators found that human patients infected with Leishmania braziliensis develop imbalances in the microbiota on their skin - dysbiosis ­– characterized by increases in the abundance of Staphylococcus or Streptococc

Use of topical antibiotics can significantly alter the skin microbiome and potentially impact the defense against pathogens. While antiseptics also alter this bacterial community, their impact is smaller and not as long-lasting. These findings are reported online ahead of print in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (June 19, 2017). A press release from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where the research was conducted, notes t

An iPhone app called ResearchKit, previously used in conditions such as Parkinson’s and cancer, has now been designed to provide learning resources for patients with sarcoidosis. The app is expected to also provide potential research data that may enable investigators to learn more about this condition. ResearchKit app, launched by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is an open source software framework designed

New research shows that myofibroblasts in human skin can be induced to transform into fat cells, resulting in scar-less wound healing. The findings, published online ahead of print in the journal Science (Jan. 5, 2017), come from research by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. In a mouse model, investigators observed that during the wound healing process adipocytes regenerated from myofibroblasts. Myofib