In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
To commemorate the centennial of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, the the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing is organizing a campaign, Calm Cool, and Courageous, to highlight the work and experiences of nurses during the pandemic.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Jean Bennett, Samuel G. Jacobson, and Albert M. Maguire received the 2018 António Champalimaud Vision Award for their revolutionary work leading to the first successful gene therapy to cure an inherited cause of childhood blindness.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
As it ended the first year of its four-year National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of how behavioral economics principles might be applied to mental health services, the Penn ALACRITY project convened a two-day retreat to review its progress and focus on its ongoing challenges.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The frontal lobe—the part of the brain that forms judgement, impulse control, empathy, and decision making—isn’t developed until the mid- to late-20’s. This helps explain why teens are moody, explosive, and more susceptible to addiction to everything from drugs, alcohol, and nicotine, to cell phones.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The training instructs students on administering the current FDA-approved nasal form of naloxone to counteract the life-threatening effects in an opioid overdose.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Wharton's Kevin Volpp and Scott Halpern from the Perelman School of Medicine discuss the use of incentives in getting employees to stop smoking, to curb the soaring costs of providing health insurance for employees.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Many physicians pursue the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program that eliminates federal student loans after 10 years of service in the public sector. But the fate of the program hangs in the balance, as government officials signal a desire to end it, leaving physicians in a lingering uncertainty.
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A study published in Nature Communications finds that adding an inhibitor to cancer therapies could cut off a tumor’s access to blood vessels, helping therapies overcome resistance in gioblastomas.
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Penn Medicine oncologist and LDI Senior Fellow Justin Bekelman has been named winner of the 2018 Cancer Control Award for his work collaborating with a variety of experts to maximize the clinical benefit and affordability of targeted cancer drugs.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Cynthia Connolly’s book, “Children and Drug Safety: Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth Century America,” won the distinguished Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, which is awarded to a historian who makes outstanding contributions to the history of public health.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
