In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Issues like age or existing arthritis may preclude patients from participating in clinical studies for new therapies that could benefit them.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Since it was launched at Penn GSE, the School Study Councils, four distinct regional groups of education leaders, have served as a place where education leaders can gather to exchange wisdom and solve problems.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Despite overwhelming climatological data, there are still vocal skeptics of the realities of climate change, but climate change deniers sow doubt about a global trend that most of us agree there should be no doubt about.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
Just over a year into her role as senior vice dean for medical education at the Perelman School of Medicine, Suzanne Rose shares her perspective on what the future holds.
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A Fall 2015 Penn Medicine magazine story, “The Path to Penn Medicine,” followed students from distinct origins throughout their inaugural year. What follows is the story of the next four years of that journey, related by the students themselves as it unfolds.
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Wharton’s Benjamin Keys looks at why the systems to protect taxpayers from the kind of mortgage market losses suffered in the financial crisis are still not strong enough.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The newly relocated Pennsylvania Hospital Crisis Response Center—one of five in Philadelphia County—provides 24/7 emergency psychiatric services to individuals who are experiencing crises, such as severe depression or anxiety, episodes of psychosis or self-harm, substance use, or suicidal ideation.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Center's Equine Pharmacology Laboratory is in the process of gathering and analyzing data from racing Thoroughbreds for its BioBank, a giant cache of samples that could be used for biological passports, which have a number of potential uses in competition horses.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
Penn Medicine’s Center for Evidence-based Practice is one of 11 institutions to join the newly formed Cochrane U. S Network, a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, caregivers and people interested in health.
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The Gift of Life Donor Dash raises awareness of how critical organ donation is and honors all donors who give others a second chance at life. The Penn Medicine team raised more than $2,200 for the 2019 Dash. This year, HUP took the goal to raise awareness one step further—holding its own “dash” on 10 patient care units.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
