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Field Center at Penn Announces Third Alan Lerner Fellow in Child Welfare Policy
A third-year student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Brittany Strandell, has been selected as the third Alan Lerner Fellowship in Child Welfare Policy recipient. The announcement was made by Penn’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at its annual “Field of Dreams” luncheon Friday.
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Transforming Education: Penn’s Netter Center Team Explains a Successful Model
How do we transform education? Team up. That’s what researchers and educational leaders from the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania say.
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Penn Student Moves from Military Service to Family Medicine
Many people decide to go back to school later in life to pursue an entirely different career. At the University of Pennsylvania, one non-traditional student’s experiences revolutionized his way of thinking about humanity, and he says the switch from chasing bad guys in Afghanistan to healing sick patients isn’t really so different, after all.
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Penn Researchers Identify Molecular Link Between Gut Microbes and Intestinal Health
It’s well established that humans maintain a symbiotic relationship with the trillions of beneficial microbes that colonize their bodies. These organisms, collectively called the microbiota, help digest food, maintain the immune system, fend off pathogens, and more. There exists a long and growing list of diseases associated with changes in the composition or diversity of these bacterial populations, including cancer, diabetes, obesity, asthma, and even autism.
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Penn Medicine: Is Medical Education in a Bubble Market?
The costs of medical education must be reduced as part of efforts to rein in health care costs more generally, according to a Perspective published online this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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New Book by Penn's Frank Furstenberg Takes Readers 'Behind the Academic Curtain'
Four years after retiring from the University of Pennsylvania, Frank Furstenberg has written a book that draws on his 42 years of teaching experience to help those in the pipeline from graduate school to the professoriate.
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Penn Psychologists: Reproductive Issues Are Key in Predicting Religiosity
Some people are deeply religious and others not at all. Evolutionary psychologists are interested in determining the functions of religiosity in social life that lead to this diversity. Two camps within the discipline have conflicting hypotheses; one believes religion’s essence is in promoting behaviors related to cooperation, while another believes that the attraction of religion has to do with sex and reproduction.
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Penn Medicine Study Finds Most Early Rehospitalization after Kidney Transplant Caused by Complexity of the Condition, not Poor Quality of Care
A study of over 750 kidney transplant patients over a five-year period conducted by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that 90 percent of early rehospitalizations (within 30 days of surgery) were caused by complex medical factors related to the transplantation process. Only nine percent of rehospitalizations – which occurred among only three percent of the entire group of patients – were categorized as potentially preventable.
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Reducing pain in dogs with cancer
When an X-ray reveals the worst possible news—that a pet dog’s limp turns out to be caused by a cancerous tumor—owners have limited options. Amputation and repeated rounds of chemotherapy can extend a pet’s life, but at substantial costs, financial and otherwise. Alternatively, dogs can be given painkilling drugs, but it may only be a few weeks that these medicines keep the canines comfortable.
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Penn Museum celebrates Day of the Dead
The Penn Museum is offering a taste of Mexican culture on Saturday, Nov. 2, with the Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebration. Originating in Mexico as part of the Roman Catholic Church’s All Souls' Day, Day of the Dead events bring together family and friends to remember loved ones who have passed away. In recent years, the observance has also become popular in the United States.