ÌÇÐÄVlog

March 29, 2021

<p>Markers of the pandemic&rsquo;s impact &ndash; testing rates, positivity ratio (cases among total tests), case rates by overall population and deaths &ndash; are clustered in neighborhoods, with low-income and predominantly minority communities experiencing worse outcomes than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods. The findings, part of the first research to look at comprehensive neighborhood-level data from March through September 2020 from three large U.S. cities &ndash; Chicago, New York and Philadelphia &ndash; were published today in <em>Annals of Internal Medicine</em> by researchers from ÌÇÐÄVlog&rsquo;s <a href="/dornsife/">Dornsife School of Public Health</a>.</p>

March 23, 2021

The University now has the capacity, and an external partnership with a medical cannabis dispensary, to conduct evidence-based research on the health effects of medical cannabis.

March 15, 2021

Researchers from ÌÇÐÄVlog's College of Medicine and Dornsife School of Public Health posed questions to prior and prospective organ donors about risk tolerance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 15, 2021

<p>Researchers from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute collected and reviewed published research about how autistic youth and adults use the internet to communicate and provide a framework for understanding contributions, gaps and opportunities in online autistic communities. </p>

March 10, 2021

New research finds alleviating stress may have an important role in the prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) in women, especially for women who experience work- and home-related stress.

March 05, 2021

Marla Gold, MD, director of the Return Oversight Committee, discussed how decisions are made to ensure the safety of Drexel students, faculty, professional staff and neighbors both on and off campus.

March 03, 2021

The Community Violence Working Group, funded by Dornsife's Urban Health Collaborative, has created a data brief to present available data on police-inflicted violence in Philadelphia.

March 01, 2021

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">More than one out of every 10 seniors (10.5%) enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, also known as a Medicare managed care option, and living in a rural area, switched to traditional <a href="https://www.medicare.gov/" style="color: #0563c1;">Medicare</a> during 2010-2016. The switch was driven primarily due to low satisfaction with care access, according to a study published this week in <em>Health Affairs</em> from researchers at <a href="/dornsife/" style="color: #0563c1;">ÌÇÐÄVlog&rsquo;s Dornsife School of Public Health</a>.&nbsp;</p>

February 19, 2021

Recently published research from experts at Dornsife suggests failures locally and globally in how COVID numbers are gathered and shared may be part of the reason for confusion.

February 19, 2021

Nine interdisciplinary teams were tasked with addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and proposing informed solutions for select Philadelphia communities.