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Doctors save life of Chester County baseball coach after suffering stroke
Christopher Favilla of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues helped save the life of a Chester County youth basketball coach who suffered a stroke.
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The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger and closer, UN forecasts
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that reports on climate thresholds put too much emphasis on global surface temperature, which varies with the El Niño cycle, even though it is climbing upward in the long term.
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Death and the city
In a 2021 essay, Aaron Chalfin and John MacDonald of the School of Arts & Sciences argued that a number of changing factors made it difficult to isolate the precise combination of ingredients behind the COVID pandemic’s surge in violence.
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When social scientists ask the wrong questions
In a co-authored Op-Ed, Nina Strohminger of the Wharton School urges social scientists to set agendas based on evidence about how their research fits into larger social and political dynamics, lest corporations do it for them.
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Workplace AI: How artificial intelligence will transform the workday
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that workers who get increasingly fluent with AI can find themselves ahead of the curve and at a distinct advantage in the workplace.
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The case for financial literacy education
A 2013 paper co-authored by Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School is widely quoted for its critique of the way financial literacy programs are taught.
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What is tardive dyskinesia (TD)? Symptoms, causes and treatments
Stanley N. Caroff of the Perelman School of Medicine explains the symptoms and causes of tardive dyskinesia, as well as low-risk treatments.
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The pandemic didn't really change how Americans think about sickness
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that overall scientific literacy has grown during the pandemic, even as more people began to believe conspiracy theories and misinformation.
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As more hospitals create police forces, critics warn of pitfalls
Elinore Kaufman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that hospital police forces should be a last resort after better health care staffing, a boost in overall training, and teaching de-escalation skills.
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America’s mothers are suckers. And I say that with love
In an Op-Ed featuring a quote from PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts, Tess Wilkinson-Ryan of Penn Carey Law writes that American capitalism has commodified motherhood, shifting it from a “social good” to a “personal choice” when women ask for support.