When measles struck, a surge of parents stepped up to vaccinate their children
According to a poll from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, 83% of Americans say that the benefits of the MMR vaccine for children outweigh any potential or perceived risk.
What one neuroscientist wants you to know about ‘baby brain’
Postdoc Laura Pritschet of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses how female hormones like estrogen and progesterone affect the brain’s organization and functioning.
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Paris Perdikaris led research on lifesaving and more cost-effective weather predictions
Sashank Prasad (left), chief of Neurology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Raymond Price, chief of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Neurobowl reimagines how the next generation of neurologists is trained
GOP bill could add trillions to the U.S. deficit, some experts say. Here’s what to know
The lowest-income Americans would end up paying more under a proposed tax bill, according to an analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
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Study sheds light on why for-profit hospitals have worse nursing and patient outcomes
Lillian Miller (left) graduated as a chemistry and environmental scieces double major in May. This summer, she returns to begin her graduate training in Irina Marinov’s (right), where researchers use big data and computational techniques to make better climate models.
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Lillian Miller: May grad turned Penn Ph.D.
The White House’s tax bill will consider SALT (again). What’s that mean for you?
Kent Smetters of the Wharton School says that protective zoning privileges existing homeowners at the expense of new development, which leads to increased property taxes in some higher-income states.
New studies show what’s at stake if Medicaid is scaled back
A study co-authored by Eric Roberts of the Perelman School of Medicine finds that patients who lose access to Medicaid and Medicare coverage fill fewer prescriptions on average and are more likely to die, depending on their conditions and drug costs.
Is empathy required in the age of AI — or can we just outsource it?
Lynn Wu of the Wharton School says that machine-generated data produces worse content than human data when it’s fed into an AI algorithm, causing the output of generative AI to gradually degrade when it relies solely on itself.