Category: Health & Medicine

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What Characteristics Impact Likelihood of Developing Long COVID?

Now a new study from researchers at Drexel University’s College of Medicine, and additional colleagues from the NationalInstitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-funded national “IMmunoPhenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort” (IMPACC), gives clinical providers insights to help patients anticipate what they may or may not experience down the road with the disease. It also gives providers more confidence when they set out a care plan for hospitalized patients aimed to help prevent long COVID, such as determining which patients need antivirals early after disease onset.

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Women Last in Medical Deanship Positions Just as Men do – Why do so Few Get an Offer?

Designed for mid- to senior-career women in medicine to prepare them for deanships and other senior leadership roles, ELAM invites women faculty possessing the greatest potential for executive leadership at academic health centers within the next five years to complete an intensive, one-year fellowship of leadership training with extensive coaching, networking and mentoring.

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Estrogen May Help Protect Against Hearing Loss, Drexel Study Suggests 

t’s no secret that growing older can be taxing on the body, and this is no less true during perimenopause, which occurs just before menopause, characterized by a significant drop in mature eggs in the ovaries, irregular ovulation, and plummeting levels of estrogen and the hormone progesterone. This drop in estrogen may play a role in hearing loss and help explain gender differences in hearing loss, according to data recently published by researchers at Drexel’s College of Medicine in the American Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery.

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US Citizen Children of Mexican Immigrants Burdened by Family Separation, Discrimination and Mental Health Issues Amid Heightened Immigration Enforcement 

A new study based on the Between the Lines research project — a two-year project between researchers at Drexel University and the Mexico section of the US-Mexico Border Health Commission — offers perspectives on the discrimination and trauma felt by immigrant children amid anti-immigrant rhetoric and family separation policies from 2019-2021.