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  • Introducing Penn Medicine Healthy Heart: A personal companion to heart health

    Penn Medicine Healthy Heart is one part of a comprehensive effort to combat heart disease, the Risk Reduction Initiative. This six-month text-messaging based program will soon be available in Philadelphia and Lancaster Counties as part of a clinical trial.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Penn Medicine researchers receive $2.1 million grant to fund long COVID research

    Funding from PolyBio Research Foundation will support research on SARS-CoV-2 persistence in the gut, in addition to work defining long COVID immune responses.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • In their own words: Charles R. Wright, Klaus Krippendorff, and Monroe Price

    Oral histories from these three distinguished Communication scholars are now available online in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Three Penn Medicine hospitals receive 2024 HAP Achievement Awards

    Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Chester County Hospital were recognized with the Excellence in Care, Workforce Innovators, and the prestigious Living the Vision awards.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • ABA M&A Committee National Invitational winners

    Penn Carey Law’s Lex Brugger and Wendy Li placed second in the inaugural bracket-style mock-negotiation competition.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law

  • Penn4C announces awardees for community-led partnership grants

    Penn Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation, an initiative led jointly by Penn’s School of Nursing and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has awarded funding to five new research projects that address social justice through designing and implementing solutions to improve health, well-being, and safety.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Menty Bayleyen receives Fulbright International Education Administrators Award

    The senior associate director of admissions at Penn Dental Medicine will participate in a two-week seminar abroad to learn about other countries’ higher education systems.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Opioid crisis is a major contributor to maternal mortality

    The opioid crisis contributes to maternal mortality in the U.S. with only one in three pregnant or postpartum people with private insurance receiving needed treatment. A new study from Penn LDI fellows proposes ways to remove barriers to treatment.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Caregiver mastery may help lower anxiety for the cognitively impaired

    A new study from Penn LDI senior fellows provides a more nuanced perspective on the dynamics of caregiver mastery—a positive perception of one’s efficacy in caregiving, and its role in the well-being of individuals with cognitive impairment, such as dementia.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • People on both Medicare and Medicaid should get better care, but they don’t

    LDI senior fellow Eric Roberts examined the effects of enrolling in an integrated Medicaid plan in a study published in JAMA Health Forum.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute