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Uterus transplant enables woman to have a baby after doctors said she couldn’t
Kathleen O’Neill of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about a Penn Medicine uterus transplant trial. “These women have ovaries, they have eggs, they just don’t have the uterus to gestate the pregnancy,” said O’Neill. “So once we are able to give them that uterus, the vast majority get pregnant and have babies.”
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How to raise kids who won’t be racist
Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education offered tips for how parents can address racist or insensitive comments made by children. “Get a sense of what they understand it to mean from their perspective,” he said. “Where did they hear it from? How is it being used in the social context they’re in? Then you have a better angle to how you can speak to it.”
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How Philadelphia plans to beat the looming eviction cliff
Vincent Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said Philadelphia’s approach to delaying evictions requires landlords to pursue alternatives before ousting tenants. “In our greater scheme of housing policy, we often focus on enforcement mechanisms while we lack the resources to create incentives,” he said. “If localities want to be proactive in protecting households from eviction, they can connect enforcement around evictions to those resources.”
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Foreclosures are at a record low … for now
Susan Wachter of the Wharton School said the rate of unpaid mortgages is elevated at the moment, in part due to the pandemic. “For those who are unemployed, this is a serious problem,” she said. “Without a job, it is very difficult to pay off that mortgage.”
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Pfizer wants to give you a booster shot—but experts say it’s too soon
John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine said the existing COVID-19 vaccines appear to be holding up, even without booster shots. “Severe infections, hospitalizations and deaths are being observed almost entirely in unvaccinated populations, even for the delta variant,” he said.
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More retailers are using AI. What does this mean for privacy?
Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication weighed in on how machine learning and automation are shaping the job market and consumer privacy.
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Vaccinations continue to fall despite West Virginia’s COVID-19 sweepstakes
Kevin Volpp of Penn’s Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics and Katy Milkman of the Wharton School spoke about incentivizing COVID-19 vaccination. “The longer you wait, the more you get into the hardline, ‘I’m really not interested’ or ‘I’m really against this’ group, and they’re harder to persuade,” said Milkman.
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Study finds that higher death rates for Black COVID patients tied to hospital quality
David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School spoke about his research on racial disparities in health outcomes for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. "Perhaps the main reason that Black patients tend to have worse outcomes than white patients is because they go to hospitals that provide worse care for all," he said. "I think it's a story of racial residential segregation. Most people go to hospitals near where they live. And we fund hospitals very much by local resources."
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There are few good COVID antivirals, but that could be changing
Sara Cherry of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the arduous process of developing antiviral drugs to treat COVID-19. “Most of the compounds that work in cells ultimately fail in animal studies for lots of reasons,” she said. Of the compounds that remain, just a few make it to the animal testing stage.
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Hyenas inherit their moms’ social connections
Erol Akçay of the School of Arts & Sciences and former postdoc Amiyaal Ilany discussed their research on hyena’s social networks. “We show that a simple process—social inheritance—is important to understanding network structure and dynamics,” said Akçay.