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The grant continues a two-decade history of collaborating with local healthcare partners in the sub-Saharan African nation through the Botswana-UPenn Partnership.
The researchers, co-led by Michael Rickels, the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases in the Perelman School of Medicine, found that many patients didn’t need insulin to maintain their blood sugar for up to eight years.
Should Mastriano win the gubernatorial race and the state legislature limits access to reproductive healthcare, Penn could become the only Ivy League institution whose students do not have access to an abortion because of their state's policies.
The goal of S.U.P.E.R. is to reach students that are abstaining from substance use, in recovery, or interested in learning more about harm reduction practices, according to Penn Wellness.
The programs — called “Refresh” and “Penn’s Declassified Sex Survival Guide” — have garnered 3,400 participants and 1,500 participants respectively since their inception.
The flu clinic will run from Sept. 28 through Sept. 30 in Gimbel Gymnasium in the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, and appointments are not required.
The students conducted research to gain a deeper understanding of the roles of the cancer care partners by focusing on their identities, such as gender and race.
HFpEF is a form of heart failure where the heart pumps normally but fails to fill with blood properly and affects almost half of all patients with heart failure.
Penn alumni Mindy and Jonathan Gray made the donation to establish and fund the Cancer Interception Institute to research early identification and prevention of breast cancer.
There have been no cases at Penn this semester and the risk of an outbreak on campus remains “extremely low,” according to Penn Public Health and Wellbeing.
The event will take place in Houston Hall from noon to 1 p.m. and will host a Penn epidemiologist and a medical provider from Student Health and Counseling.