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Firearm violence solutions from a public health perspective
Sign on a chain-link fence reads "This is a gun-free zone."

Firearm violence solutions from a public health perspective

An article by two Penn researchers advises that treating firearm violence as a disease and taking a public health approach to prevention and treatment can help reduce its harm.

Penn Today Staff

Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities
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Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities

New research from the School of Dental Medicine gives a satellite-level view of how biofilms grow and expand on a surface.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Viewership soars for misleading tobacco videos on YouTube
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Image: Zachary Reese

Viewership soars for misleading tobacco videos on YouTube

Misleading portrayals of the safety of tobacco use are widespread on YouTube, where viewership of popular pro-tobacco videos has soared over the past half-dozen years, according to research by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Penn Today Staff

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia is ‘at the uncharted frontier of brain science and traumatic injury’
Ramon Diaz-Arrastia

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia is the associate director for clinical research at the Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair, where he leads the TBI Clinical Research Initiative. 

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia is ‘at the uncharted frontier of brain science and traumatic injury’

The Presidential Professor of neurology in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, who began his post in 2016, is an innovative traumatic brain injury researcher.

Penn Today Staff

How emotional contagion exacts a toll
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How emotional contagion exacts a toll

From “Purell panic” to sold-out face masks, Wharton’s Sigal Barsade discusses how widespread panic is an emotional contagion amidst the coronavirus epidemic.

Penn Today Staff