Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing says that each patient added to a hospital nurse’s workload is associated with a 7%-12% increase in hospital mortality.

Grad student Rebecca Wu of the School of Nursing explains why she switched her voter registration from California to Pennsylvania, with additional Penn students and organizers featured in photographs.

Dani S. Bassett of the School of Arts & Sciences speaks on their new book, “Curious Minds: The Power of Connection,” co-authored with identical twin Perry Zurn, which investigates the foundations of curiosity.

An analysis by the Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that President Biden’s loan plan will cost $519 billion over 10 years, with 75% of the benefit going to households making $88,000 or less per year.

In an op-ed, Holly Fernandez-Lynch and Steven Joffe of the Perelman School of Medicine argue that drugs should be approved for over-the-counter-use unless the FDA determines they can’t be taken safely without a prescription.

In a Q&A, Anna Rose Childress of the Perelman School of Medicine speaks on the cycle of opioid addiction and her current clinical trials on the benefits of “add-on” medications with Kyle Kampman of the Perelman School of Medicine.

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts discusses the release of her book “Torn Apart,” which argues that the nation’s child welfare system deprives Black families of fundamental rights and should be dismantled.

A multidisciplinary Penn team including Michael Koo of the School of Dental Medicine and Edward Steager of the School of Engineering and Applied Science has created an automated way to brush and floss through robotics, a potentially useful development for those unable to clean their teeth themselves.