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Generic heart pill shows early promise for alcohol use disorder

Henry Kranzler of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the three current FDA-approved drugs for alcohol use disorder are only modestly better than placebos.

FDA seems poised to approve a new drug for ALS, but does it work?

Holly Fernandez Lynch of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the FDA’s current trajectory has been characterized by increased willingness to accept weaker evidence.

Abortion clinic websites may unwittingly aid patient prosecutions

More than 99% of abortion clinic web pages studied included widely used code that transferred user data to external entities, which could sell the data or provide it to law enforcement, without the clinics knowledge.

COVID boosters take aim just at omicron. This Penn lab is going after coronaviruses the world hasn’t seen yet

In Drew Weissman’s lab at the Perelman School of Medicine, researchers like Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Benjamin Davis, and Garima Dwivedi are developing pan-coronavirus vaccines to guard against future variants.

Joe Biden said the pandemic is over. Here’s where cases stand in Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Jeffrey S. Morris of the Perelman School of Medicine says that people have become apathetic about COVID-19 but that long COVID’s loose symptoms make determining its risk difficult.

Landscape and climate factors can predict prevalence of Lyme disease bacteria

Environmental models, developed by biologist Dustin Brisson of the School of Arts & Sciences, former graduate student Tam Tran, and colleagues, could help forecast disease hotspots.

Monkeypox cases slow down nationally and in Philly, but authorities warn that the outbreak isn’t over

Stuart Isaacs of the Perelman School of Medicine evaluates the decline in new cases of monkeypox and speaks on what factors to examine in the virus’s future trajectory.

Billion-dollar U.S. health agency gets new chief—but its direction remains in limbo

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel applauds President Biden’s choice of Renee Wegrzyn as new head of ARPA-H, though he hopes Wegrzyn will keep the agency prioritized on health over medicine.

The sucky history of the breast pump

Jessica Martucci of the School of Arts & Sciences explains how the breast pump became an indispensable part of raising a baby.

Vaping habits differ by race and sexual orientation among teens, study finds

A study by Andy Tan of the Annenberg School for Communication and colleagues finds that vaping habits vary among teens based on race, sexual orientation, and the intersection of those two identities.

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