‘Law & Order ’ Creator Dick Wolf Calls on UPenn President to Resign Over Palestinian Lit Fest With Antisemitic Speakers
‘Law & Order’ creator Dick Wolf has called for the resignations of two key leaders at the University of Pennsylvania, following a Palestinian literature festival held at the school last month that featured antisemitic speakers. In a letter addressed to both president Liz Magill and Scott Bok,…#dickwolf #palestinian #lizmagill #scottbok #upenn #wolfhumanitiescenter #magill #marcrowan #dailypennsylvanian #marclamonthill (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is ChatGPT too ‘smart’ for its own good?
ChatGPT shows promise in answering questions by radiology patients, yet the complexity of its responses may complicate its use as a patient education tool, according to a group at the University of Pennsylvania.Researchers led by Emile Gordon, MD, tested ChatGPT in answering common imaging-related questions and further examined the effect of asking the chatbot to simplify its responses. While accurate, ChatGPT’s responses were uniformly complex, they found.“None of the responses reached the eighth-grade readability recommended for patient-facing materials,” the group wrote. The study was published October 18 in the J...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 20, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Imaging Informatics Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
Notable & Quotable: Penn Loses a Donor
Students walk to class on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, September 2017. Hedge-fund manager Clifford Asness in an Oct. 16 letter to University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill:#philadelphia #cliffordasness #elizabethmagill (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Billionaire Ronald Lauder threatens to pull funding if UPenn doesn ’t do more to fight antisemitism
Billionaire Ronald Lauder, a powerful financial backer of the University of Pennsylvania, is threatening to cut off donations if the school doesn’t do more to fight antisemitism, CNN has learned. The threat from Lauder, one of the heirs to the Estee Lauder cosmetics company, marks the latest…#lauder #esteelauder #palestinian #hamas #israel #upenn #lizmagill #palestinewrites #marcrowan #jonhuntsman (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists at UPenn believe they've discovered the REAL cause of long Covid
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found patients with the lingering condition have two things in common. They have remnants of the virus in their gut and lower levels of serotonin. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A new possible explanation for long COVID could lead to a simple treatment for some patients
The neurologic long COVID symptoms of some patients, like brain fog and memory loss, may be caused by lingering virus—in the gut, of all places. That’s according to a new study by University of Pennsylvania researchers published Monday in the journal Cell. Researchers say the findings could lead…#cell #pennsylvania #christophthaiss #lyme #naturemedicine #fortunecom (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Low serotonin levels might explain some Long Covid symptoms, study proposes
Although theories abound, there is still no clear explanation for how infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to lingering difficulty concentrating, problems with attention and memory, and other, often-debilitating symptoms associated with Long Covid.
Now, researchers studying people who reported these and other symptoms months postinfection propose a new possibility: That
inflammation in response to SARS-CoV-2 causes a drop in serotonin
—a chemical messenger involved in regulating mood and digestion, among myriad other functions—which in turn causes cognitive problems.
The propos...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 16, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Most U.S. hospitals omit abortion services from websites, study says
Most hospitals omit or hide information about abortion services on their websites, according to a study by investigators at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Huntsman family says it's cutting off its mega-donations to University of Pennsylvania over'antisemitism '
Jon Huntsman Jr. announced his family is halting donations to the University of Pennsylvania due to its response to Hamas' terrorist attacks on Israel. Alex Wong/Getty Images; Getty Creative The Huntsman family halted donations to the University of Pennsylvania over its response to Hamas'…#jonhuntsmanjr #hamas #israel #alexwonggettyimages #gettycreative #utah #singapore #elizabethmagill #huntsmanfoundation #university (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Warning of ‘Grave’ Errors, Powerful Donors Push Universities on Hamas
Ken Griffin of Citadel, a big donor to Harvard, demanded that the school issue a public statement in defense of Israel after Hamas’s attack last week. Wall Street financiers are pressing elite schools to condemn criticism of Israel. Amid pressure, the University of Pennsylvania on Sunday issued a…#kengriffin #harvard #israel #hamas #kennethgriffin #harvarduniversity #pennypritzker #harvardcorporation #israeli #israelis (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
More than red blood cells depend on hemoglobin, surprising study of cartilage reveals
Blood is red because it’s brimming with the oxygen-toting protein hemoglobin, but scientists have long wondered whether cells outside of the bloodstream depend on this protein as well. Now, a team of researchers from China has demonstrated that cartilage-making cells called chondrocytes manufacture and use hemoglobin, perhaps to help them survive in cartilage’s oxygen-poor environment.
The results surprised bone researchers, but they give the study high marks. The authors “provide solid and convincing evidence that chondrocytes can produce hemoglobin and that it has a physiological role,” says bone developmen...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 13, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid
When Lindy Elkins-Tanton imagines the metallic asteroid Psyche, she dreams of terrain unlike any seen before. Small craters could look like frozen splashes of water, fringed with silvery spires. Metallic lavas, squeezed out billions of years ago, might shimmer nearby. Gigantic cliff faces, cleaved from the asteroid’s metal crust as it cooled and contracted long ago, might be studded with green crystals of olivine.
Whether these vistas exist depends on whether the asteroid, a beguiling 220-kilometer-wide object discovered in 1852, really is the hunk of iron and nickel long assumed by astronomers. Now, Elkins-Tanton ...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 13, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
CEO Marc Rowan calls on UPenn leaders to resign, alums to halt donations over alleged antisemitism
A billionaire private equity firm CEO is calling on the leaders of the University of Pennsylvania to resign and for donors to "close their checkbooks" to the school over what he says is their failure to sufficiently condemn antisemitic events on campus prior to Hamas’ terror attack on Israel.…#hamas #israel #apollomanagement #marcrowan #mba #whartonschool #dailypennsylvanian #upenn #lizmagill #scottbok (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Corrections & Amplifications
Professors at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania used GPT-4, a large-language model from OpenAI, to compare Wharton students’ ideas to those generated by artificial intelligence. GPT-4 powers certain versions of ChatGPT, but the two terms aren’t interchangeable. A Sept. 11…#openai #journal (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Nobel Prize Winners 2023, From Peace to Medicine
Dr. Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Dr. Drew Weissman of the US, who won the 2023 Nobel Medicine Prize, arrive for a press conference at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadephia on October 2, 2023. US physician-scientist Drew Weissman along with his long time collaborator Katalin Kariko of…#katalinkariko #hungary #drewweissman #nobelmedicineprize #philadephia #nobel #stockholm (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
