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(09/29/09 7:56am)
Reported seasonal flu vaccine shortages at the Student Health Service stem from this year’s shift in the regular vaccine production schedule in order to combat H1N1 influenza, according to SHS director Evelyn Wiener.
(09/25/09 6:02am)
Penn’s Student Health Service is running low on seasonal flu vaccine due to nationwide delays in manufacturing and shipping, according to Matt Waller, director of Public Affairs and Communications for the Office of the Vice Provost of University Life.
(09/25/09 4:29am)
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station is preparing for an extra-vehicular activity spacewalk when a computerized voice says, "You've been smiling 20-percent less than usual lately. Are you worried about something? Homesick?"
(09/24/09 6:13am)
Reported instances of influenza-like illness increased last week at Penn to 63 cases, or 31.3 cases per 10,000 students during the first full week of classes, up from 12.4 cases per 10,000 the week before.
(09/22/09 6:27am)
In the body of Penn’s public health community, the right hand does not know what the left hand does, or sometimes even that the left hand exists at all.
(09/21/09 5:07am)
Students this year have a wider range of options in choosing their health insurance policy with the addition of the Penn Add-On Plan, designed to supplement a pre-existing private insurance plan.
(09/21/09 5:01am)
Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius recommended in a conference call with college reporters Friday that universities create alternate housing and food delivery programs for students with possible cases of H1N1.
(09/18/09 10:25pm)
Students this year have a wider range of options in choosing their health insurance policy with the addition of the Penn Add-On Plan, designed to supplement a pre-existing private insurance plan.
(09/18/09 3:40am)
The number of possible H1N1 cases reported at Penn for the first week of dorm occupancy, 25, is well below the national average for college campuses, according to University officials and the American College Health Association.
(09/12/09 5:21am)
If a scan of your brain shows that you're likely to kill your roommate, should that be held against you in a court of law?
(09/11/09 5:09am)
As Penn students head back to class and college students across the nation return to campus, additional information on the spread of H1N1 and further assessments of Penn's preparations have become available.
(09/09/09 6:20am)
As students head back to school, Penn officials have released more details about the University's plans to prevent and manage an H1N1 epidemic at Penn.
(09/09/09 1:23am)
In the wake of growing international concern over the spread of H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, Penn has begun a University-wide push to educate students about preventing the spread of H1N1 influenza.
(05/04/09 9:00am)
If you had one hour to speak to an audience before you died, what would you say?
(04/21/09 9:00am)
Andrew Shatte wants to turn the fight against global warming into a war.
(04/09/09 9:00am)
The small room that will house the new Nursing Biobehavioral Research Lab in Claire Fagin Hall may not look like much, but for the researchers in the School of Nursing, it's a place to call their own.
(03/23/09 9:00am)
"If the wars of the 20th century were fought over oil, the wars of the 21st century will be fought over water," said University of Miami School of Communications professor Sanjeev Chatterjee in discussing his motivations for creating One Water, a documentary about the world's water crisis.
(03/19/09 9:00am)
Does faith create practice or does practice create faith? Does the authorship of a religious work matter most or is our personal experience of the work more important?
(03/05/09 10:00am)
"The time has come to think about sex," Gayle Rubin wrote 25 years ago as the opening of her paper Thinking Sex. Now, that time has come again.
(02/25/09 10:00am)
Is Twitter a way to stay in contact with your buddies or a manifestation of the human poetic narrative?