5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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CPR and defibrillators: What you need to know
Benjamin Abella of the Perelman School of Medicine says that only a tiny fraction of people who have a cardiac arrest and are not at a hospital get CPR, calling it a national tragedy.
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Nurses are burned out and fed up. For good reason
A quoted study by Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing and colleagues found that minimum nursing staffing ratios in hospitals could have prevented more than 4,000 deaths and saved upward of $700 million in medical costs during a two-year period.
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Don’t ban ChatGPT in schools. Teach with it
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that teachers need to figure out how to adjust to tools like large language models, which aren’t going to get less capable in the next few years.
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What should I eat or drink when I have a cold?
Colleen Tewksbury of the School of Nursing says that there isn’t strong enough evidence to recommend specific foods during a viral infection but suggests turning to hydrating and nourishing foods that are also comforting.
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As COVID-19 continues to spread, so does misinformation about it
Anish Agarwal of the Perelman School of Medicine says that online and offline discussions and impressions of the coronavirus are constantly shifting.
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Homicides of children soared in the pandemic’s first year
Elinore J. Kaufman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that homicides of children are often linked to child abuse and neglect, reflecting the stresses experienced by families.
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How a sprawling hospital chain ignited its own staffing crisis
Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing says that complexity and lack of transparency in hospital-supplied data necessitates surveys of staff to figure out the truth.
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The nicest place online? It might just involve identifying sea slugs
Sophia Rosenfeld of the School of Arts & Sciences says that cooperation in naming taxonomic labels is not necessarily reflective of our political life.
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Brains, brawn, or both: What drove the creation of modern dog breeds?
The work of Emily Dutrow and James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine found that domestic dogs could be divided into 10 distinct lineages, which generally included breeds that were developed to perform similar jobs.
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National Mall commissions six artists for monument exhibition
Paul Farber of the Weitzman School of Design is co-curating an exhibition at the National Mall that will reimagine the role of monuments in the telling of history.