In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
In a recent study, Penn LDI fellows find that financial benefits from Medicaid expansion in health systems failed to reach the lowest earners, after reviewing data from 46 states.
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LDI researchers have developed a useful framework to aid health systems in considering structural, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized racism in their social care programs and policies.
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Penn Dental Medicine students and faculty research was in the spotlight at the recent 2024 IADR/AADOCR/CADR General Session & Exhibition in March.
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Penn Medicine researchers have found that only a small portion of neurons are activated in epileptic brains, which may indicate promising targets for developing future interventions.
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A new study by Penn LDI fellows shows how incarceration plays a meaningful role in population health and birth outcomes by focusing on two state-level incarceration policies, both adopted during the 1990s: three strikes and truth-in-sentencing.
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A new study from Penn LDI surveyed a national sample of 304 trans individuals (including about half of whom identified as transmasculine) to measure the knowledge and use of PrEP, assess five PrEP program attributes, and determine which of these attributes are considered the most important.
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The American Student Dental Association inaugurated its 2024-2025 executive committee and board of trustees with Parker Norman and Samarth Setru in key national leadership positions.
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A new study from Penn LDI shows that in areas with greater socioeconomic disadvantage, patients who need aortic valve replacement tend to get fewer sophisticated procedures than patients in more privileged areas.
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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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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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