Public Health

What's behind the FDA’s controversial strategy for evaluating new COVID boosters

Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the FDA needs solid data to ensure that the new BA.4/5 boosters have a dramatically greater neutralizing antibody response.

‘COVID? What COVID?’ More and more people say they’ve returned to normal

A survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that many people rarely wear masks when indoors with strangers, despite their awareness of continuing COVID risks.

Biden signs climate, tax and health bill into law

An analysis by the Penn Wharton Budget Model finds that the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act will have zero measurable impact on inflation despite its name.

A group of doctors looking at an x-ray in a children’s hospital in Botswana.

A success story from Southern Africa

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership celebrates 20 years of medical, scholarly, and educational progress.

‘Is an abortion medically necessary?’ is not a question for ethicists to answer

Holly Fernandez Lynch, Steven Joffe, and Emily A. Largent of the Perelman School of Medicine write that ethics committees are not intended to second-guess clinical judgements about medical procedures or provide legal cover for institutions.

Think you have monkeypox? It might be another skin condition

Mark Abdelmalek of the Perelman School of Medicine says that bumps and rashes are much more likely to result from common skin conditions than from monkeypox.

More than two years into the pandemic, hospital care still may not save you from dying of COVID-19

Lewis J. Kaplan of the Perelman School of Medicine says that improvements in outpatient therapy have prompted some hospitals to only admit very ill COVID patients.

Scene of a hospital lobby. Most people are blurry, but two are clear, a person in a lab coat talking to a person in scrubs.

Q&A

An international effort to curb provider burnout and improve patient care

In a Q&A, Penn Nursing’s Linda Aiken describes how a hospital earning Magnet designation creates a better, safer experience for patients and clinicians, plus the push to expand such credentialing beyond the U.S.

How monkeypox myths mimic lies about COVID and AIDS

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the human impulse to scapegoat is both predictable and dangerous.

Delaware Valley experts, residents call ‘forever chemical’ health screening recommendations a ‘bold step’

Mary Regina Boland of the Perelman School of Medicine says patients could lower their environmental health risks by discovering the source of their exposure to toxic chemicals.

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