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Understanding the health paradox: The factors influencing white men’s well-being

Understanding the health paradox: The factors influencing white men’s well-being

While social and economic factors are often viewed as primary drivers of health, a new Penn Nursing analysis suggests that the relationship between societal position and physical well-being is more complex than previously understood.

From Penn Nursing News

2 min. read

New CAR T treatment opens doors for kidney patients
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New CAR T treatment opens doors for kidney patients

An early Penn Medicine trial demonstrates CAR T cells can safely desensitize even the most challenging transplant candidates.

Matt Toal

2 min. read

Green infrastructure
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Green infrastructure

A roundup of Penn Today stories focusing on green infrastructure on campus, in research, in higher education, and in energy policy.

Penn Today Staff

2 min. read

GLP-1 use linked to lower breast cancer incidence in large cohort study
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GLP-1 use linked to lower breast cancer incidence in large cohort study

A retrospective analysis of more than 110,000 women between the ages of 45 and 80 found that those who take GLP-1 medications are about 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who do not take GLP-1 medications.

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Why is everything gambling now?
Hand holding a mobile phone with sports bets lined up.

Over the last decade, there’s been an explosion in phone-based gambling platforms owing to the 2018 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a federal sports betting ban. Neuroscientist Michael L. Platt says the gambling boom has as much to do with human biology as it does business. 

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Why is everything gambling now?

Neuroscientist Michael Platt discusses the biological basis of gambling as it relates to the over proliferation of gambling-based platforms.

5 min. read

AI education for kids
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AI education for kids

An interdisciplinary seminar at Penn’s Graduate School of Education explores how students can design, critique, and teach AI and machine learning in K–12 education.

From Penn GSE

2 min. read

Visions of nonprofit news in PA
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Visions of nonprofit news in PA

Penn researchers identified two competing visions of nonprofit news, a restorationist vision and a transformational vision, and calculated the cost of implementing each vision.

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