As the college’s growing landscape creates more varied clinical opportunities for students, this expansion presents a challenge: how do you ensure students have vital mental health resources when they’re many miles away from campus?
Tag: Drexel College of Medicine
Is it Time to Sunset Hats’ UV Protection Claims?
Erum N. Ilyas, MD, interim chair of dermatology in the College of Medicine and colleagues sort out these questions in a recently published article in The Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology. The teamfound that those UPF claims — which refer to the hat’s ability to block UV — aren’t really that reliable for consumers seeking protection from the sun’s rays.
Q+A: Will New European Union Regulations Impact Your Gel Manicure?
Earlier this month, the European Union announced a ban on a typical ingredient used in manicures and pedicures, classifying it as “carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic to reproduction.”
Q+A: How One Family Medicine Doctor is Approaching Vaccination This Fall
Although the telltale signs of fall are already approaching – leaves changing, a chill in the air, kids going back to school – one harbinger of the season might look a little different this year: vaccine recommendations.
Q+A: Can Hormonal IUDs Cause Rosacea?
Compared to users of other hormonal IUDs, those who chose Skyla® showed the lowest risk of developing rosacea one-year, three years and five years after placement, according to new data from researchers at Drexel University College of Medicine, recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Q&A: How Can I Keep My Voice Healthy During Cold Winter Months?
As winter approaches – replete with COVID, flu, colds and other ailments – so does the season of throat clearing. But this hem, ahem, hawk, cough, or tickle in the throat doesn’t have to linger […]
Q+A: Bird Flu Cases are Rising. Should we be Worried?
Fred Krebs, PhD, an associate professor in Drexel University’s College of Medicine and an expert in viruses and viral infections, shared whether it’s safe to drink cow’s milk, how to keep farm workers safe, the current state of monitoring and testing, and whether the U.S. is prepared in the event of a bird flu outbreak in humans.
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.
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.
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.