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Researchers find three distinct immune responses for sicker COVID-19 patients
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Researchers find three distinct immune responses for sicker COVID-19 patients

Researchers from the Penn Institute of Immunology discovered three distinct immune responses to the SARS-CoV2 infection that could help predict the trajectory of disease in severe COVID-19 patients and may ultimately inform how to best treat them.

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Penn Medicine’s virtual bridge to opioid recovery
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Penn Medicine’s virtual bridge to opioid recovery

When COVID-19 shifted most outreach and programs to online platforms, recovery specialist Nicole O’Donnell had to restructure her approach to establishing a relationship with patient’s in need of opioid addiction intervention.

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Rooting out systemic bias in neuroscience publishing
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Rooting out systemic bias in neuroscience publishing

An interdisciplinary research team has found statistical evidence of women being undercited in academic literature. They are now studying similar effects along racial lines.

From Penn Engineering Today

Spending on charity care stalled as Medicaid expanded
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Spending on charity care stalled as Medicaid expanded

A new study shows increased coverage for lower-income patients did not lead to more community benefit spending from hospitals between 2011 and 2017.

From Penn Medicine News

The gut shields the liver from fructose-induced damage
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The gut shields the liver from fructose-induced damage

A new study shows how excessive consumption of fructose, whether via food or beverage, overwhelms gut defenses and results in the development of fatty liver.

From Penn Medicine News

New database aims to make Alzheimer’s diagnosis easier and earlier
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New database aims to make Alzheimer’s diagnosis easier and earlier

A five-minute online session will allow neural health to be tracked across time, so that doctors can make an earlier diagnosis and researchers can evaluate medications and other treatments.

Susan Ahlborn

Navigating cytokine storms
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An immune response can be helpful, harmful, or somewhere in between, in COVID-19 and many other medical conditions. 

Navigating cytokine storms

Pairing their expertise, Nilam Mangalmurti of the Perelman School of Medicine and Christopher Hunter of the School of Veterinary Medicine have been working to understand the protective and harmful aspects of the immune response, including in COVID-19.

Katherine Unger Baillie