In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Sleep health is increasingly recognized as important to overall health, and sleep disturbances and disorders are clinical problems that require diagnosis and management. But when patients present with symptoms and concerns about their sleep disturbances, they often do so to healthcare providers who are not sleep specialists.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Penn Medicine CAREs grant program is supporting 36 community programs this quarter, including efforts to support diversity in medicine.
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In a recent study, Shoshana Aronowitz and colleagues conducted interviews with prescribers, pharmacists, and patients to determine how telehealth was being used to prescribe buprenorphine. They found that patients and prescribers welcomed the use of telehealth, but pharmacists often “red flagged” these prescriptions resulting in pharmacy-level “red tape” that delayed or prevented the prescriptions from being filled.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Maayan Levy a 2022 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, and Alexander Huang and Chengcheng Jin as 2022 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research. John James Tello Cajiao has been named a 2022 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences.
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A group of Penn Dental Medicine students joined Dental School dean Mark Wolff in presenting at the recent conference of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry, discussing the services provided through the School’s Care Center for Persons with Disabilities Personalized Care Suite and the educational experiences gained there in caring for this vulnerable population.
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The similarities in symptoms between seasonal allergies and the now-dominant omicron subvariant of COVID-19 can be confusing. Producing mucus, sneezing, and coughing are all part of how the immune system keeps threats from entering the body. Allergies often involve itching and sneezing, but fever is rarely a symptom of allergies, which might be a way to differentiate between COVID and seasonal allergies.
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Growing up in South Philadelphia, Sean Green, an environmental services associate at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania often walked with his family to admire the lights on the 1700 block of Addison Street in Rittenhouse Square. Green’s photo, “Winters on Addison,” is one of more than 100 works of art by University of Pennsylvania Health System staff, patients, volunteers, and friends now on display in the annual “A Celebration of Art and Life” exhibition on the first floor of the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.
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The personalized cellular therapy pioneered at Penn receives approval for treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.
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Penn Medicine has formed the BETTER Center (Behavioral Economics to Transform Trial Enrollment Representativeness), designed to foster greater diversity, equity, and inclusion among people who participate in clinical trials designed to improve the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The BETTER Center will seek to more actively engage and recruit individuals from historically underserved racial and ethnic groups, women, and people of low socioeconomic status, among other historically underrepresented groups.
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The Executive Director of Penn Dental Medicine’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health, has been recognized for his leadership by the Academy of Dentistry International for 2021. The award honors career contributions to dentistry, international education, and service.
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