Update 10/26: Hans Kersten, MD, has made it to the final round of the Be Well Philly Health Hero Challenge! That means he is one of four finalists in the competition and is guaranteed to […]
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Q+A: Expanding Buprenorphine RXs — Can It Help With The Opioid Epidemic?
As part of a multi-pronged effort to address the growing opioid addiction epidemic in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that it would make one treatment medication more […]
Q+A: How Can You Stay Healthy in the Heat?
As Philadelphia heads into another day of high temperatures, the National Weather Service has declared an “excessive heat warning” in the region until 6 p.m. tonight. Health experts warn that extreme heat is more than […]
Q+A: The Troublesome Implications of Monitoring Student Weight
With one university taking a high-tech stab at keeping its freshmen class’ weight down, an expert in weight stigma in Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions is alarmed by their methods. Oral Roberts University […]
ICYMI: Science Explains Why You Can’t Keep That New Year’s Resolution
Here we are in the final days of January. How are your New Year’s resolutions holding up? Have you maintained the willpower to eat healthy and lose weight, or did you lose all control […]
Virtual Reality Brings Students to the Crime Scene
A man breaks into a 28-year-old woman’s home and rapes her. When you arrive at the scene to investigate, you find the door unlocked, a roll of duct tape in the bedroom and the woman’s […]
Accessing the ACA’s Full Potential
Although research by a new Drexel professor has shown important increases in health care access for the United States’ Latino population under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), he feels expanding it to include undocumented immigrants […]
Quick Takes: Obamacare and Same-Sex Marriage are Both Public Health Issues
The Supreme Court issued its rulings today in the King v. Burwell case, upholding Obamacare’s subsidies and protecting access to affordable health care for millions of low- and middle-income Americans—a major victory in the view […]
Drexel Snapshot: New Mental Health Screening Kiosk in University Recreation Center
Drexel’s Recreation Center now offers a new way for students, staff and visitors to maintain healthy minds in the same place where they attend to the health of their bodies. The new MindKare™ mental health kiosk […]
Why a Drexel Professor Wants to Sell More Processed Foods to Low-Income Families
When it comes to healthy nutrition and low-income communities, you’ve probably heard these nuggets of conventional wisdom: Processed foods are unhealthy. The healthiest diets are composed of whole, unprocessed foods like fresh fruits and veggies, […]