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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The fight against cancer faces daunting new challenge: debt politics
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that the pharmaceutical industry has a bias but that he doesn’t necessarily see an overreliance on industry money in research.
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More than half of U.S. employers ready to try four-day workweek
Iwan Barankay of the Wharton School says that a four-day workweek might increase pressure on workers to toil on their own time.
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Finding our way out of the post-truth era
Sophia Rosenfeld of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the work of democracy.
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Could the silver lining of the pandemic be pan-vaccines?
Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues have developed a vaccine that could provide a baseline level of protection against all 20 known flu strains.
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Republicans’ ‘Charlie Brown’ budget problem
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that the Affordable Health Care Act is too woven into the system for Republicans to dismantle.
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Recession or not, Americans feel like they’re poorer
Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences says that how American voters assess the economy has increasingly become a partisan question in recent years.
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Greene stirs up political storm with ‘national divorce’ comments
Brian Rosenwald of the School of Arts & Sciences says that there have always been extremists in Congress, but that it’s new for such a person to be embraced by party leadership.
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Virology is part of the golden age of health: Don’t dismantle it
James Alwine of the Perelman School of Medicine co-writes that over-regulation could unduly constrain the ability to respond to future viral pandemic threats.
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Restricted abortion access linked to increased suicide risk in younger women
Researchers from Penn and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have linked restricted abortion access to heightened suicide risk among younger women, with a quote from Rebecca Waller of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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A glaring omission in the Biden strategy on nutrition: a sweetened-beverage tax
In an Op-Ed, Christina A. Roberto and Laura A. Gibson of the Leonard Davis Institute and the Perelman School of Medicine urge cities and states to pass taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages.