How To Change Your Mind
“Enlightenment is for anyone.”
Our Labs, Our Health?
In Risky Medicine, History and Sociology of Science Professor Robert Aronowitz argues that today’s fixation on diagnosing and managing risk factors rather than treating diseases leads to anxiety and stress, over-diagnosis of conditions and overuse of drugs, and radical treatments that are unnecessary or harmful.
Want to Quit Smoking? Care to Make It Interesting?
Is gambling on quitting smoking a smart bet?
Healing Invisible Wounds
Yochi Dreazen had seen his share of death and combat trauma
as a military journalist in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it wasn’t until he
met an American general and his family that he learned how deep
that trauma can go, and what needs to be done to heal it.
Living Up to the Lipstick
In the two decades since her breast-cancer diagnosis, Geralyn Lucas C’89 has become an icon and inspiration to fellow survivors for her flamboyant and gleefully defiant response to her disease. It all started with her choice of lipstick to wear for her mastectomy.
A Twitter Eclipse of the Heart
Language on Twitter can predict heart-disease risk in a community.
Findings
High altitude and lung cancer, Alzheimer's and antidepressants, all work and no sleep.
Living—and Thriving—with Celiac
Alice Bast C’83
Making Scents of the Past: The History of Cleanliness
History professor Kathleen Brown on what it means to be clean.
Speak, Pain
A physician who has looked at pain from both sides examines the language we use to describe it.
A Shelf Full of Resolutions
Five Penn authors offer challenges and inspiration to readers seeking better self-control, wiser conversations, age-appropriate outfits, meaningful reading, and wholesome eating.
Some Vinegar and a Cellphone, Stat!
Screening for cancer with vinegar and a cellphone camera.
Brain Autopsy Sheds Light on Football Player’s Suicide
Football-induced brain injuries possibly linked to student’s suicide.
Catalyst for a Cure
Lee Ducat Ed’54 is on a mission to cure diabetes.
Notes to a Younger Mother
In her new book, writer-mom and autism activist Susan Senator C’84 G’85 shows how to make the most of the unexpected life.
A Double Reward
A program at the School of Veterinary Medicine provides free surgery and follow-up care to shelter dogs with mammary tumors and matches them with willing owners, while also collecting data that could advance treatment of human breast cancers.
The Weiss Pavilion
Weiss Pavilion fits fitness under Franklin Field arches.
Turning the Tables on BRCA-related Breast Cancer
Novel drug treatment may shrink breast-cancer tumors.
Women’s Health, From Baltimore to Bangladesh
Nursing School hosts international conference on women’s health
She Sees Fitness in the Stars
Gina Lombardi DH’83
Prostate Therapy Problems at the Philadelphia VA
Prostate therapy program at VA under fire
Hope or False Hope?
What stories about celebrities and their illnesses mean to the rest of us.
Heart, Soul, and Kidney
Joan Saltzman G’70 gave her heart—and a kidney—to John Katz.
Roberts Family Gives $15 Million for Proton Therapy Center
Brian and Ralph Roberts give $15 million for proton-therapy center