Merrick Garland's Biden special counsel sparks anger about Trump probe
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland wasted little time in appointing a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden after White House officials publicly revealed a small cache of classified documents had been discovered at his former office at the University of Pennsylvania and his home in…#trumpfox #barackobama #ninthcircuit #delaware #williamrehnquist #ronaldreagan #mehdihassan #department #msnbc #garland (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Laws that keep kids away from guns reduce deaths, whereas others lead to more shootings
A meta-analysis of more than 150 studies on the impact of U.S. gun control policies suggests laws aimed at preventing children from accessing firearms are effective at reducing firearm deaths. In contrast, laws that strengthen concealed-carry and stand-your-ground protections tend to increase gun-related violence.
The
report
, issued today by the nonprofit RAND Corporation, recommends federal and state lawmakers adopt child access prevention laws and amend or repeal stand-your-ground laws. The analysis also underscores the need for ongoing research on guns and violence, outside experts say.
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Source: ScienceNOW - January 10, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
6 Surprising Things You Think Are Making You Happy —But Are Doing the Opposite
Fat salaries and corporate success aren’t the gateways to happiness they’re cracked up to be. But it makes sense that we might think they are. “We’re fed such an incredibly dense diet of popular media and marketing that shapes our understanding of happiness in a way that actually gets in the way of it,” says Emiliana Simon-Thomas, science director at the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. “I think we as a society, particularly in the West, have a bit of an illusion about where happiness comes from and how to get more of it.”
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Source: TIME: Health - January 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health Wellbeing Source Type: news
How to Manage Catastrophic Thinking
When something really bad happens to you, how do you think about your future? Catastrophizers think, Everything will now unravel, and my life will be ruined. This mindset turns out to be an enormous impediment to happiness and, even worse, it is a major risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
We found this out by tracking every single one of the 79,438 U.S. Army soldiers who deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan from 2009 to 2013. On their very first day in the Army, they took a psychological questionnaire asking them to rate how they felt about several statements related to pessimism and its most extrem...
Source: TIME: Health - January 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Martin Seligman Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health Wellbeing Source Type: news
Forbes taps Murray as explainers and trends reporter
Forbes has hired Conor Murray as an explainers and trends reporter. Murray previously was an intern at Forbes covering America’s richest people. He also interned at Philadelphia magazine and at NBCNews.com. Murray graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a news editor and a…#nbcnewscom #philadelphia #dailypennsylvanian (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study finds link between restricted abortion access, suicide risk in younger women
A new study says restricted abortion access in certain states is linked to a higher suicide risk in younger women, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Children ' s Hospital of Philadelphia. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - December 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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Katy Milkman, professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, details science-backed and proven ways to help you achieve the goals you set for yourself so those New Year's resolutions can become a reality this year. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - December 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Penn spinout Peroxitech raises $25M to advance experimental drug
The company was spun out of the University of Pennsylvania Innovation Center in 2016. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - December 13, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: John George Source Type: news
Study: Early Mesothelioma HIPEC Surgery Extends Survival
Sooner is better when it comes to aggressively treating peritoneal mesothelioma cancer with a combination of cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy.
Waiting could cost a patient months of survival. Rejecting surgery could cost them years.
The Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery published a study in November that showed for the first time to what degree a delay in having the mesothelioma surgery, or not getting it at all, can affect overall survival for patients.
Results of the mesothelioma study were presented earlier this year at the annual Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract ...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - December 8, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Tags: Peritoneal Surgical procedures Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Names CEO Joaquin Duato as Chairman of the Board
New Brunswick, N.J., November 30, 2022 – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Joaquin Duato, to assume the additional position of Chairman, effective in January 2023. Mr. Duato succeeds Mr. Alex Gorsky, who will step down from his role as Executive Chairman following a brief transitional period.Mr. Duato has served as Johnson & Johnson’s CEO and a member of the Board of Directors since January 3, 2022. Prior to that time, he held senior leadership positions over his 30-plus year career with the Company across multiple business sectors...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - November 30, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Successful tests in animal models pave way for strategy for universal flu vaccine
An experimental mRNA-based vaccine against all 20 known subtypes of influenza virus provided broad protection from otherwise lethal flu strains in initial tests, according to a study. This could serve one day as a general preventative measure against future flu pandemics, the researchers from University of Pennsylvania, US, said. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - November 26, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Looking Beyond Clinical Trials for Mesothelioma Treatment
Clinical trial results should not always be the guiding force when a mesothelioma cancer patient and their medical team determine what therapy path to take, according to one recent study. A look at real-world populations might be just as important.
A research team at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine has made the point with a retrospective, observational analysis of second-line treatment for pleural mesothelioma.
The analysis came on the heels of a multicenter clinical trial from the European Thoracic Oncology Platform that evaluated the efficacy of pembrolizumab (Keytruda), an immunotherapy drug,...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - November 22, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Tags: Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments Mesothelioma Source Type: news
SemCap raising $400M fund to back health tech firms, taps former Penn Medicine CEO as advisor
Among the advisors for the health fund is Ralph Muller, the former president and CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - November 10, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: John George Source Type: news
5 Steps to Take to Become a Morning Person
Every morning at 7 a.m., Jane Walsh rolls out of bed and onto her yoga mat. For the next half an hour—before coffee or breakfast or feeding the cats—she bends and stretches her body.
“It sets the tone for the rest of the day,” says Walsh, 58, who works in public relations in New York City. She’s kept this schedule for as long as she can remember, even in her 20s after late nights out. Without her morning routine, “my mood isn’t as stable, and I don’t feel as good overall,” she says—and when she does sleep in, she feels like she’s missed out on something.
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Source: TIME: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Sleep Wellbeing Source Type: news
Penn Medicine and Boston-area biopharm firm to pursue potential solid tumor CAR T-cell therapy
A University of Pennsylvania center led by a cell therapy pioneer has formed a research collaboration with Needham's Candel Therapeutics aimed at advancing a way to use CAR T-cell therapy to combat solid tumors. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - October 27, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: John George Source Type: news
