March

Drexel Doctoral Student Sparks Action, Seeks Community Support to Save the Sun Building

March 31, 2021

This month and with more donations needed, Samantha Rivera Joseph, a PhD student in the Dornsife School of Public Health, hopes to buy the historic building in her Mt. Airy neighborhood and convert it into a community meeting space with crowdsourced funds.

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Your Neighborhood May Influence Your COVID-19 Risk, Drexel Study Suggests

March 29, 2021

Markers of the pandemic’s impact – testing rates, positivity ratio (cases among total tests), case rates by overall population and deaths – 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 – Chicago, New York and Philadelphia – were published today in Annals of Internal Medicine by researchers from Drexel University’s <a href="https://drexel.edu/dornsife/">Dornsife School of Public Health</a>.

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New Medical Cannabis Research Center at Drexel Supports Groundbreaking Research Partnership

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.

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How Should We Support Living Organ Donors During a Worldwide Pandemic?

March 15, 2021

Researchers from Drexel University'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.

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Autism Online: A Review of How Autistic People Communicate Virtually

March 15, 2021

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. 

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New Study Finds Stress and Social Strain Were Each Associated with Increased Risk of Heart Disease Among Women

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.

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How the Return Oversight Committee is Guiding Drexel During the Pandemic

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.

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Police Violence is a Public Health Issue

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.

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Due to Low Satisfaction with Care Access, Rural Enrollees in Medicare Advantage are Switching to Traditional Medicare

March 01, 2021

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 Health Affairs from researchers at <a href="https://drexel.edu/dornsife/" style="color: #0563c1;">Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health</a>. 

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