Public Health

A co-authored Penn study found that restoring the areas around abandoned houses can lead to a drop in neighborhood gun crime.

Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that many mammalian ACE-2 receptors are proving susceptible to COVID, even if they aren’t a perfect match.

A study by Eugenia South of the Perelman School of Medicine and John MacDonald of the School of Arts & Sciences and colleagues finds that restoring the areas around abandoned houses can lead to a drop in neighborhood gun crime.

Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the new XBB.1.5 COVID variant is more immune-evasive and is sharply increasing in Pennsylvania as a proportion of all infections.

Edward K. Kim of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues have developed a patient-centered text message-based platform for promoting self-management of IC/BPS symptoms.

Alumnus Leonard A. Lauder gifted $125 million to the School of Nursing to establish a tuition-free program to train and deploy nurse practitioners in underserved communities.

Alumnus Leonard A. Lauder donated $125 million to the School of Nursing in 2022, the largest gift ever to a nursing school.

A paper by Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center found a seasonal pattern to teen suicide rates that seems to coincide with the school year, declining in the summer months.