The Fund for Health supports for-profit startups addressing social determinants of health for underserved Philadelphians. 

In early December 2024, over a dozen Philadelphia health experts gathered on a Zoom call to discuss potential challenges for public health under the second Trump administration.

Trump announced Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services on Nov. 14, and Oz to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Nov. 16.

Oz, who received an M.D. from Penn's medical school and an MBA from Wharton, will lead the second Trump administration’s oversight of major health insurance programs if confirmed.

Party control in the state legislature could influence issues such as the status of funding for Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine, abortion rights in Pennsylvania, and higher education.

The massive wildfires in New Jersey — resulting in the unhealthy air quality in Philadelphia on Sunday — are a result of an ongoing severe drought.

Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé said that the two new initiatives were born from Wellness at Penn's duty to continue expanding and adapting their offerings to meet student needs.

The council — which is led by five senior faculty members — will provide strategic input, coordinate multidisciplinary research, and develop new AI-related initiatives.

The annual clinic, which offered free flu vaccines to all Penn community members, was hosted at the Gimbel Gymnasium in the Pottruck Health and Wellness Center from Oct. 16 to Oct. 18.

This funding, provided through the NIH’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing Program, will support gene-editing research aimed at developing treatments for rare metabolic diseases.

The program, which is a collaboration between the Penn Center for Public Health and Penn Farm, starts every week at 11:30 a.m. and runs until the produce is gone.

Three students who spoke with the DP described feeling confusion and concern over whether current students in the program were still provided their conditional acceptance into the Dental School.

The claim filed by the Katz family against Panera Bread is the first of four lawsuits directed toward the highly caffeinated Charged Lemonade drink.

Griffith will join Penn Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine as the Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Population Health and Health Equity University Professor. 

This year's Send Silence Packing exhibit was deliberately placed in a more visible area of College Green to invite more engagement from students passing by.

Wellness at Penn offerings for the semester include group therapy, the Let's Talk program, Peer Wellness Coaching, and the SUPER Recovery Community.

This year's record-breaking annual revenue was boosted by a $129 million federal drug settlement.