5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Penn Medicine opens walk-in crisis response center at Cedar Avenue campus
Penn Medicine has relocated its crisis response center to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Cedar Avenue campus in West Philadelphia. The facility opened with remarks from Maria Oquendo.
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Who should get a COVID vaccine this year?
Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine believes that the COVID boosters should be recommended annually only for high-risk groups.
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COVID boosters can’t outpace new mutations. Here’s why they still work
Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine explains why it doesn’t matter which variant to target when it comes to vaccine-booster development.
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The White House proposed staffing requirements for nursing home. What would that mean for Pennsylvania?
Rachel Werner of the Leonard Davis Institute, the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Wharton School explains why an increase in nursing home staffing levels is sorely needed.
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Silicon Valley’s quest to live forever now includes $2,500 full-body MRIs
Saurabh Jha of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the only way to know if incidental MRI findings are benign is to keep getting scanned, which is costly to the individual and to the health system.
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Does Obamacare explain Medicare’s spending slowdown?
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says the Affordable Care Act’s payment experiments have added up to a new culture of medical practice.
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Every hospital system needs an LGBTQ health director
Kevin Kline has been appointed medical director for LGBTQ health at Penn Medicine.
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In twins study, concussions in early life tied to memory issues decades later
Holly Elser of the Perelman School of Medicine says that preventive measures are key to limiting the risk of concussions.
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Notes of jasmine? Hints of citrus? Computers can be trained to smell like a human, say scientists at Philly’s Monell Center
A study by Joel Mainland of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues used an artificial intelligence tool to predict the smells of new, lab-made chemicals by mapping the smells of known chemical substances.
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Traumatic brain injuries linked to cognitive decline later in life
Holly Elser of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the results of a twin study demonstrating a relationship between head injuries and cognitive impairment or dementia later in life.