Tag: Drexel College of Medicine

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Q+A: A New COVID Variant is Spreading Across the United States. Should We Be Concerned?

A new COVID “variant under monitoring” by the World Health Organization known as BA.3.2 is circulating across the United States. Here to sort out the latest on the new variant, including whether we should be concerned about its ability to evade immunity from previous vaccination and/or previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, is Sonia Navas-Martin, PhD, a professor of microbiology and immunology in Drexel’s College of Medicine.

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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.