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community organizations, faith-based institutions, restaurants, barbershops, and even professional sports teams thanks to $1 million in funding from the City of Philadelphia.
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New research shows that applying design thinking as a framework for patients who are socially at risk has merit in helping nurses and other health care providers develop clinical pathways to improve care transitions.
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Penn Nursing’s Amy Sawyer, associate professor of sleep & health behavior in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, conducted a study showing that patients with untreated sleep apnea had a higher risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event, but the risk of incident heart problems was decreased in those who used CPAP therapy.
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Many states have enacted comprehensive mandates that all clinicians consult Prescription drug monitoring programs prior to prescribing an opioid for any given patient. These mandates seek to hold prescribers accountable and ensure sustained use of the databases. Now researchers are exploring whether comprehensive mandates deter clinicians from writing opioid prescriptions for appropriate indications.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts named Kellie A. Jurado, Presidential Assistant Professor of Microbiology, and Colin Conine, an assistant professor of pediatrics and genetics, as two of 22 early-career researchers nationwide selected as 2021 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Liling Wan, an assistant professor of cancer biology, will join four other researchers in the U.S. as the 2021 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research.
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A Penn LDI seminar looks at the contrast between the “War on Drugs,” which devastated Black and Latino communities through mass incarceration, and today’s public health approach to opioids in white communities.
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In the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Penn Nursing’s Onome Henry Osokpo reports on the results of a systematic review, finding that an interplay of cultural and structural factors influences the self-care practices of African immigrants with chronic diseases. While cultural identity is a powerful influence, African immigrants also report systemic barriers to adopting self-care recommendations.
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This spring, the National Academy of Sciences, a 158-year-old nonprofit organization that promotes scientific excellence and advises the United States government and public on the latest scientific developments, elected two scientists to its membership from the department of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine. M. Celeste Simon, the Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh Professor and the scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, and Marisa S.
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The chief medical officer and SVP of Penn Medicine, has been chosen as one of the five members on the newly created Delaware County Board of Health.
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The Accelerator is an annual fixture of the Center for Health Care Innovation, but there was no class in 2020. Most of the Center’s staff had been dispatched on various projects to battle COVID-19. So the fact that a 2021 class is being selected is a welcoming sign of the approach of normalcy.
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