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Public worry about RSV has faded, unlike flu and COVID-19

More than 100,000 older adults are hospitalized on average yearly in the United States with respiratory syncytial virus, as are 58,000 or more infants and young children under the age of five, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC says 6,000 or more older adults and 100 or more young children die annually of RSV.

PPR faculty appointed to Pennsylvania’s AI Advisory Committee

Penn Program on Regulation’s director, Cary Coglianese, and Richard Berk, a PPR faculty affiliate, have been appointed by the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission to the state's Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

Five tips to spark conversation amid political discord

Penn GSE’s Dialogue Across Difference certificate program helps educators tackle civil discourse in public schools and learn strategies for leading students in productive conversations.

Sheri Yang and Michael Mitchell awarded $2.79M to advance study, treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Yang, a professor in the Department of Basic and Translational Sciences, and Mitchell, associate professor of bioengineering at Penn Engineering, have been awarded a $2.79M grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study a possible new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

A new way to treat Afib: Pulsed field ablation

Penn’s cardiac electrophysiology laboratory has been a leader in pulsed field ablation for its precision and safety. Unlike radiofrequency or cryoablation, which use heat or extreme cold to destroy problematic heart tissue, PFA uses short electrical pulses to selectively target the heart’s myocardium, the muscle layer responsible for erratic electrical signals.

Philadelphia Tribune

Engaging discussion at Center in the Park on conservative agenda Project 2025

At a Philadelphia panel on Project 2025, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts said that Black women would have even greater numbers of unwanted pregnancies without access to legal contraceptives.

Bloomberg

Hernandez on immigration, its impact on the U.S. economy

Zeke Hernandez of the Wharton School discusses what would happen to the economy if millions of people were deported and whether immigration is a solution to U.S. workforce concerns.

CNBC

More money tends to make you happier—even if you’re already rich, Ivy League researcher finds

A paper by Matthew Killingsworth of the Wharton School finds that correlation between paycheck and happiness holds extremely true across a vast range of incomes.

KFF Health News

Patients are relying on Lyft, Uber to travel far distances to medical care

According to Krisda Chaiyachati of the Perelman School of Medicine, some insurance companies and cancer treatment centers pay for ride-hailing services to reduce missed medical appointments.

Huffington Post

Is the ‘3-2-1 rule’ the secret to better sleep?

Jennifer Goldschmied of the Perelman School of Medicine says that approaches like the “3-2-1” rule aren’t necessarily evidence-based.