In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
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Oral histories from these three distinguished Communication scholars are now available online in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives.
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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.
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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.
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Penn Carey Law’s Lex Brugger and Wendy Li placed second in the inaugural bracket-style mock-negotiation competition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LDI senior fellow Eric Roberts examined the effects of enrolling in an integrated Medicaid plan in a study published in JAMA Health Forum.
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