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Health Sciences
Five tips to stay positive and healthy during social isolation
Five tips to stay positive and healthy during social isolation
In this strange new time, it’s important to stay connected to the people you love and replace the physical contact that’s been lost.
On-campus research to be limited due to COVID-19
On-campus research to be limited due to COVID-19
The Office of the Provost has announced new measures for research activities at Penn in response to COVID-19.
Enhanced Penn Health insurance coverage and care access
Enhanced Penn Health insurance coverage and care access
Penn’s insurance carriers have made enhancements for participants to the existing plan, so that members may receive appropriate testing and treatment for the coronavirus without encountering barriers associated with navigating any benefits issues.
Flattening the curve of coronavirus
Flattening the curve of coronavirus
In the current fast-moving, unprecedented situation, what we do today to stem the impact of COVID-19 can vastly affect what we will face tomorrow. Two epidemiologists discuss what we can do individually and as a society to slow the spread of the disease.
Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities
Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities
New research from the School of Dental Medicine gives a satellite-level view of how biofilms grow and expand on a surface.
Firearm violence solutions from a public health perspective
Firearm violence solutions from a public health perspective
An article by two Penn researchers advises that treating firearm violence as a disease and taking a public health approach to prevention and treatment can help reduce its harm.
Ramon Diaz-Arrastia is ‘at the uncharted frontier of brain science and traumatic injury’
Ramon Diaz-Arrastia is ‘at the uncharted frontier of brain science and traumatic injury’
The Presidential Professor of neurology in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, who began his post in 2016, is an innovative traumatic brain injury researcher.
Penn is fighting pancreatic cancer
Penn is fighting pancreatic cancer
Researchers within the Penn Pancreatic Research Center and beyond continue to seek innovative ways to treat and detect this deadly disease—and are making promising progress.
The facts on coronavirus testing
The facts on coronavirus testing
FactCheck.org explains how testing works, what happened with the CDC’s coronavirus test and what’s known about how many tests are available in the U.S.
At the dental school, the dietitian is in
At the dental school, the dietitian is in
Matthew Whipple, a registered dietitian at the School of Dental Medicine, consults with patients in clinics and educates students about the importance of spreading nutrition advice. He also cooks up a mean chicken and sausage gumbo.
In the News
ABC News
Nurses group turns to crowd-sourcing for unused protective gear
Marion Leary of the School of Nursing spoke about efforts to crowd-source safety masks and other personal protective gear. “Anyone that has a stock of these supplies that they could donate to their local hospitals and healthcare providers,” she said, would be doing a great service.
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WHYY (Philadelphia)
Lessons from 1918
Pat D’Antonio of the School of Nursing spoke about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how we can apply its lessons to the present.
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The New York Times
7 medical leaders to politicians: Save lives, not Wall Street
In collaboration with the leaders of six other large academic medicine institutions, Dean J. Larry Jameson of the Perelman School of Medicine wrote an op-ed urging “national leadership to resist pressure to lift tough social restrictions intended to subdue this outbreak and save thousands of lives.”
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NPR
Her incredible sense of smell is helping scientists find new ways to diagnose disease
Richard Doty of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the use of scent signaling in diagnosing disease. “It used to be that physicians did use breath odor and other odors, to signify certain disorders. But that’s not really invoked presently, because we have so much better ways of [diagnosing] things,” he said.
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The Washington Post
Trump’s not a doctor. He’s only playing one on TV
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an op-ed about the hazards of implementing untested treatments for the novel coronavirus. “When it comes to fearsome, fatal conditions, it is human nature to try something because it should help, because it might help, because it must help, or because it couldn’t hurt,” he writes. “But often it does harm people and our quest for a real cure.”
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