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Six new organizations chosen for 76ers, Penn Medicine violence prevention program

Six new organizations chosen for 76ers, Penn Medicine violence prevention program

The Assists for Safe Communities program announced the second cohort of organizations that will receive a share of donations tied to the total number of assists 76ers players record in the 2025-26 season; for every pass that leads to a basket, Penn Medicine and the 76ers will donate $76.

Edward Humes accepts Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability

Edward Humes accepts Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability

Edward Humes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, visited Penn last month to accept the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability for his book “Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World.”

Saving a family medicine residency program serving Delaware County

Saving a family medicine residency program serving Delaware County

The announcement of the planned closure of Crozer’s Family Medicine department, which serves a large population of low-income patients, prompted residents to fight to keep their patients and practice with a move to a new home at Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital.

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Penn nurse manager brings health resources to her tribal community
Sherry Caputo in front of the Lenape Tribal Grounds building.

Image: Courtesy of Sherry Caputo

Penn nurse manager brings health resources to her tribal community

Outside of her day job as a nurse manager for Penn Medicine at Home, Sherry “Strong Sun Spirit” Caputo has helped bring mental health education, COVID resources, and nutrition programming to her tribal community, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation in New Jersey.

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After a pulmonary embolism, a runner’s rapid save
Molly Fadden.

Penn Medicine is one of the health systems that has been trialing a new catheter device for embolectomies since 2024. Molly Fadden (pictured) agreed to the use of the trial device in her procedure.  

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine)

After a pulmonary embolism, a runner’s rapid save

A pulmonary embolism is life-threatening—and urgent. For Molly Fadden, Penn Medicine was ready to get her to the right experts, right in time.

Christina Hernandez Sherwood for Penn Medicine Magazine

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Bringing much-needed dental care to an underserved community
Dental residents treat a patient at Penn Dental at Woods.

Staffed by Penn Dental postgraduate dental residents, along with attending dentists, Penn Dental at Woods treats both resident in-patients and out-patients of Woods, employees, special needs students at the Woods onsite school, and people with disabilities from the community.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Dental at Woods)

Bringing much-needed dental care to an underserved community

People with disabilities often face barriers to dental care. A collaboration between Penn Dental Medicine and Woods Services is changing that, bringing dental care with compassion to people with disabilities, a vastly underserved population.

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How has talking about politics changed in the last quarter-century?
Two people speaking in a government building.

Americans are having more political conversations than they were 24 years ago, and are more likely to be talking with people they agree with politically, Penn researcher Diana C. Mutz finds.

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How has talking about politics changed in the last quarter-century?

Penn researcher Diana Mutz finds that we’re having more political conversations now with like-minded people, and that political intolerance has increased as a result.

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Clock changes disrupt sleep, health, and well-being
A person turning back a clock superimposed over a profile of a head and day and night icons.

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Clock changes disrupt sleep, health, and well-being

Indira Gurubhagavatula of the Perelman School of Medicine explains how seasonal time changes affect the body’s internal clock, and offers tips for an easier transition.

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Andrea Mitchell to be Honored with Beacon Award at Penn

Andrea Mitchell to be Honored with Beacon Award at Penn

The Trustees’ Council of Penn Women will present its highest honor, the Beacon Award, to journalist and alum Andrea Mitchell for her distinguished career in journalism and her leadership in advancing opportunities for women.