At this point in the pandemic, it may not come as a surprise that the impacts of COVID-19 have included increases in mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and substance use. Along with those issues, recent reports ...
Mar 7, 2022
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The science on heavy drinking and the brain is clear: The two don't have a healthy relationship. People who drink heavily have alterations in brain structure and size that are associated with cognitive impairments.
Mar 4, 2022
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In 2020, Denmark culled millions of mink to quell a source of zoonotic COVID-19 transmission, the passage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus between humans and animals. Last year, zoo animals including lions, tigers, and gorillas got ...
Feb 24, 2022
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Just one demographic group in America currently cannot receive a vaccine against COVID-19: kids under 5 years old.
Feb 23, 2022
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The pandemic evoked fear of all kinds, much of it centered on how COVID-19 endangers people's physical health. But Penn psychologist Adrianna (Anna) Jenkins and MindCORE postdoctoral fellow Rista Plate wanted to understand ...
Feb 18, 2022
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Atopic dermatitis, a common skin condition affecting both children and adults, is often thought of as an inflammatory disease that arises from a breakdown in the barrier function of the skin. Now a new study pinpoints a cascade ...
Feb 15, 2022
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Last winter, the Penn Hyperbaric Medicine team noticed that they were uncommonly busy. That wouldn't have been remarkable for most providers, since COVID-19 presented a significant challenge for health systems across the ...
Feb 8, 2022
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In the United States, mortality is rising, with more deaths than ever attributable to alcohol and drug poisoning and to suicide, in conjunction with increasing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Yet many other wealthy ...
Feb 3, 2022
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In the summer of 2010, Bill Ludwig and Doug Olson were battling an insidious blood cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). They'd both received numerous treatments, and as remaining options became scarce, they volunteered ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Battered by waves of COVID-19 and confusion over shifting government messages about it, Americans' confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declined in January with drops both among groups of Democrats/Democratic-leaning ...
Jan 27, 2022
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