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Coding the emotions that anti-tobacco ads evoke
A person sitting outside on a silver metal bench wearing a black and white skirt, a white shirt, and blue blazer. Plants are visible to the right and to the left. Junior Gabriela Montes de Oca from Houston has a background working on public health issues and supporting marginalized populations as part of Penn’s United Minorities Council, as a member of the First-Generation, Low-Income Dean’s Advisory Board, and through her role as a Penn Civic Scholar. This summer, in addition to interning in the lab of Andy Tan, she worked on Covid-19 testing and vaccinations at Sayre Health Center.

Coding the emotions that anti-tobacco ads evoke

Sophomore Oulaya Louaddi and junior Gabriela Montes de Oca interned this summer with Annenberg’s Andy Tan, helping the research team design and test culturally appropriate anti-smoking campaigns for young women who identify as sexual minorities.

Michele W. Berger

Guidelines support breastfeeding during parent-newborn separation
Newborn baby laying in an incubator.

Guidelines support breastfeeding during parent-newborn separation

A team of scientists led by a researcher from the School of Nursing has established a new clinical practice guideline using an evidence-based approach to support lactation when parents and newborns are separated due to a hospitalization.

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People and Places at Penn
people and places

People and Places at Penn

In anticipation of the return to campus, undergraduates introduce their favorite spots.

Kristina García

Improving patient experiences in cancer clinical trials
cancer patient in bed looking out window

Improving patient experiences in cancer clinical trials

Cancer clinical trials (CCTs) provide patients an opportunity to receive experimental drugs, tests, and/or procedures that can lead to remissions. For some, a CCT may seem like their only option. Yet little is known about the experiences of patient participants who withdraw from CCTs.

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Scaling the model of care for patients with opioid use disorder
Patient laying in hospital bed while a doctor and a nurse compare notes regarding the patient’s medical chart.

Scaling the model of care for patients with opioid use disorder

Data show that concurrent with the opioid overdose crisis, there has been an increase in hospitalizations of people with opioid use disorder. One in ten of these hospitalized medical or surgical patients have comorbid opioid-related diagnoses.

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Mentorship an ‘essential ingredient’ for nursing Ph.D. students
An illustration of people helping each other move from small pedestal to medium pedestal to large pedestal, in an effort to demonstrate peers helping each other.

Mentorship an ‘essential ingredient’ for nursing Ph.D. students

A new School of Nursing initiative places doctoral students into small peer-mentorship groups. The researchers who implemented this found it offers an important supplement to one-on-one peer support and faculty advising.

Michele W. Berger

Reproductive justice in nursing
A transgender person wearing a medical gown sits on an exam table speaking to a doctor.

Image: The Gender Spectrum Collection

Reproductive justice in nursing

The Penn chapter of Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health works to expand students’ engagement in Reproductive justice.
100 years of insulin
insulin lab

Homepage image: Laboratory on the University of Toronto campus where Banting and Best carried out some of their research on insulin. (Image: Courtesy of Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto)

100 years of insulin

On July 27, 1921, Canadian doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated the hormone insulin, one of the most important breakthroughs in treating diabetes. Experts from around the University share their thoughts on the medical triumph on the 100th anniversary.

Kristen de Groot

Safe nurse staffing standards in hospitals saves lives and lowers costs
Two masked medical professionals attend to a masked patient, taking their blood pressure.

Safe nurse staffing standards in hospitals saves lives and lowers costs

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health showed that establishing safe nurse staffing standards in hospitals in Chile could save lives, prevent readmissions, shorten hospital stays, and reduce costs.

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