Pennsylvania: University Of Pennsylvania Hospital

Heart Transplant From Organ Donor With Hepatitis C Associated With Decreased Survival (Science Daily) - 140 weeks ago

Heart transplant patients who receive a donor heart from a person with hepatitis C have a lower rate of survival, according to a study in the Oct. 18 issue of JAMA.

Amazing medical advances, but can we afford them? (Daily Local News) - 140 weeks ago

If you were born at Chester County Hospital over the last three decades, there’s a good chance Morrie Gold saw you in your birthday suit.

None of county’s 5 hospitals features a trauma center (Daily Local News) - 140 weeks ago

Chester County, the 28th largest of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, has no trauma center at any of its five hospitals, which gives the county with a population of 474,027 the distinction of being the only Philadelphia suburb without one.

Monday's Local News (WTOL News 11) - 140 weeks ago

A high-speed chase on I-75 Monday night ended with the shooting death of the unarmed suspect inside the Wood County Hospital.

Life after Iraq for guardsmen: Behind is hard part, but ahead isn't easy (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - 140 weeks ago

The men and women of the Pennsylvania National Guard 2nd Brigade Combat Team's 28th MP Company returned to America at the end of June, landing at Camp Shelby, Miss. When they left Camp Shelby a year earlier, bound for Iraq's dangerous Sunni Triangle, the governor was there to send them and 2,100 other Pennsylvania Guardsmen on their way.

Tests clear UIHC’s water (The Iowa City Press-Citizen) - 141 weeks ago

University Hospitals lifted a water precaution Friday in John Pappajohn Pavilion after water test results came up negative for bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease -- a cause of death in a person who died at the hospital last month.

Pennsylvania business news in brief (Scranton Times-Tribune) - 141 weeks ago

The quirky Divine Tracy Hotel, which catered to a university crowd but had a strict behavior code, is being turned into student housing.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Funds Job-based Learning Collaboration (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - 141 weeks ago

Mayor John Street is expected to join in the announcement Monday that The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Hitachi Foundation have awarded a major training grant to initiate work-based learning in the behavioral health industry to the District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, AFSCME, AFL-CIO; Temple University Health System;

PENN Medicine News: Hearts Transplanted from Hepatitis C Donors Associated with Lower Survival Rates in Recipients, (University of Pennsylvania Health System) - 141 weeks ago

(Philadelphia, PA) – Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine have found that heart transplant patients who receive a donor heart from a person with hepatitis C (HCV) have a lower rate of survival.

Pennsylvania Hospital Hosts the Interactive Life in Motion Movement Disorders Experience Center to Educate the (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - 141 weeks ago

Pennsylvania Hospital and WE MOVE have partnered to bring a free, public, interactive exhibit, the Life in Motion Movement Disorders Experience Center, to Pennsylvania Hospital in order to educate Philadelphians about movement disorders and their symptoms, and to provide suggestions to help people work with their healthcare providers to properly diagnose and treat movement disorders.