Penn in the News

Lily Brown of the Perelman School of Medicine says that any behavior that creates a physical barrier to a nail-biting habit can be helpful.

Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication explains that the “positive” interpretation of the First Amendment focuses on government’s affirmative role to help guarantee the public access to a “diverse and informative media system.”

Anne R. Cappola of the Perelman School of Medicine says everyone would like to find “that magic pill where we don’t get older, don’t feel worse, and have more energy all the time.”

Data from the Quattrone Center at Penn Carey Law suggests that COVID-19 has caused crime in the U.S. to drop across the nation’s largest cities.

Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School provides tips to help adults in their twenties navigate tensions about careers, relationships, and big life choices with their parents.

Gene therapy for a rare form of blindness will be tested at Penn Medicine while gene therapy for a condition that causes skeletal deformities and seizures will be tested at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Pennovation’s annual accelerator concluded with a pitch day at the end of July. After participating in the six-week accelerator, the nine companies in the 2023 program pitched to a panel of judges and other members of the Pennovation community in hopes of winning funding and other perks.

A new clinical trial by Robert Krouse of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues suggests that patients with advanced abdominal tumors and major bowel obstructions should be offered surgery earlier in their hospital stay.

Robert Krouse of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on research that suggests surgery should be offered sooner rather than later to patients with advanced abdominal tumors.

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts says that race is a social category affected by inequality, not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities.