One in 25 hospital patients will contract an infection during their stay. Hospitals are well aware of the communicable diseases often transmitted among patients and take many precautions to reduce the risk. But new research […]
Category: Health & Medicine
A Super Bowl Dream Deferred? What to Know About ACL Injuries
In an instant, Philadelphia’s Super Bowl dreams appeared to shatter on the field. Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee during Sunday’s winning game against the Rams. By […]
3 Lessons The U.S. Could Learn from Brazil’s Universal Health Care System
With rumblings of support for universal health care picking up in the United States, a Drexel professor just released a study looking at how Brazil’s most vulnerable citizens feel about the state of their national […]
Minimize Holiday Food Waste and Transform Leftovers
Seventy-six percent of Americans admit to throwing out leftovers on a monthly basis — a wasteful luxury when more than 15 million American households are uncertain they have sufficient money or resources to provide enough […]
Q&A: How Did Brain Trauma Affect Aaron Hernandez?
Aaron Hernandez — the former football star charged with murder in 2013 — suffered from a severe case of the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), researchers at Boston University revealed at a medical […]
White Deaths May Be Up, But That is Only Part of the Story
Experts who attribute a rise in the deaths of white people in recent years to economic “despair” might be missing the forest for the trees, according to Dornsife School of Public Health Dean Ana Diez […]
Q&A: How Do Firefighters Battling Massive Forest Fires Stay Safe?
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 […]
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 […]