Medical Ethics

Improving diversity in cancer clinical trials

The Cancer Clinical Trials Community Ambassador Training Program at the Abramson Cancer Center was established in August 2021 to create spokespersons and resources to increase awareness and access to cancer clinical trials in the diverse Philadelphia communities. 

From Penn Medicine News

Learning to listen in troubled times

The SNF Paideia Program and partners featured Ernesto Pujol and Aaron Levy, an artist and an interdisciplinary scholar who have transformed both what it means to listen and what the act of listening can achieve as part of a lecture and workshops.

Kristen de Groot



In the News


The New York Times

Experts see lessons for next pandemic as COVID emergency comes to an end

According to PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel, the pandemic has shown that officials should think carefully about school closures and keep them as limited as possible to avoid negative educational impact.

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Axios

ChatGPT might show more empathy than docs, study finds

David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School says that ChatGPT tries to be chatty and comprehensive.

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Reuters

‘It totally backfired’: The pitfalls of Alzheimer’s genetic testing

Emily Largent of the Perelman School of Medicine says that genetic testing for Alzheimer’s can lead to information about siblings and children as well, causing existential dread.

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Stat

The NIH has poured $1 billion into long COVID research—with little to show for it

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that the National Institutes of Health have nothing to show for a billion dollars’ worth of research on long COVID.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Hundreds of workers at a Philly Coca-Cola distributor are on strike. Here’s why

A study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine found that a Philadelphia soda tax spurred a 39% reduction in the purchase of sweetened beverages.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Teamsters have voted to strike at Philly area’s largest Coca-Cola distributor

A 2020 study from the Perelman School of Medicine found that a Philadelphia soda tax spurred a 39% reduction in the purchase of sweetened beverages.

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