At least 8,000 firefighters are currently deployed in Northern California to battle wind-aided wildfires that continue to spread. With 40 people already reported dead and many more still missing, the danger of these fires has […]
Category: Health & Medicine
Drexel Researcher Wins STAT News Wunderkind Award
STAT — a Boston-based national publication focused on science and health news — has named a Drexel University College of Medicine postdoc one of the “brightest young minds in life science.” Halley Oyer, PhD, was […]
Media Watch: Talking About Tragedy After the Las Vegas Shooting
It’s been a rough couple of months. Super-strong hurricanes, intense earthquakes and saber rattling with a nuclear adversary have now given way to the worst mass-shooting the United States has ever seen. And the shooting […]
Q+A: What In Our Neighborhoods Puts Us at Risk for Diabetes?
Diabetes is much more than just having to avoid certain foods. The risk of blindness, kidney failure and heart disease, among many other issues, are all much higher for diabetic people. Like most diseases in […]
Media Watch: Child Hunger Rates Triple in North Philadelphia for Children With Working Parents
National-level numbers can sometimes be deceiving, it seems. Although hunger appears to be declining across the country, research by Mariana Chilton and her team found that hunger among North Philadelphia’s children with working parents has […]
Quick Take: New Graham-Cassidy Health Bill is Partisan, Not Public Health
“The Graham-Cassidy bill completely abandons Republicans’ longstanding promise to replace Obamacare. It is repeal only, and would leave tens of millions of Americans with no health insurance and no hope of getting it. All of […]
Media Watch: Drexel College of Medicine Among Top 10 Medical Schools With the Most Applicants
With 11,532 applicants for the 2016-17 school year, Drexel University College of Medicine is among the top 10 most popular schools in the country for prospective students and first in the Philadelphia region, as reported […]
Ted Corbin: Philly’s Next Health Hero?
Ted Corbin, MD, an associate professor in the College of Medicine, is changing the way hospitals in Philadelphia — and around the country — respond to victims of violence. In recognition of these efforts, Corbin […]
Drexel Researcher Makes Air Pollution Data User-Friendly
If you live in a town or city where industrial facilities are emitting chemicals into the air, there is plenty of reason to wonder: How is this affecting me? “People living near the nation’s oil […]
Biomedical Researchers Design Mobile Game for Teaching About HIV
CD4 HunterTM, a new educational mobile game developed by Drexel University College of Medicine researchers that turns players into microbes, is now available to download from iTunes and the Google Play app store. In the […]
