November

  • Queen Lane Town Hall

    November 20, 2013

    With the removal of the operational "firewall" separating Drexel's College of Medicine from the rest of the University looming next year, President Fry addressed the effort to create "One University" at a town hall meeting for Queen Lane Campus employees Monday.

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  • Abington Memorial Hospital to Become Regional Medical Campus for College of Medicine

    November 20, 2013

    Abington Memorial Hospital will serve as a regional medical campus for Drexel University College of Medicine under a new agreement signed by both institutions. This designation expands on an already existing academic affiliation.

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  • Medical Students Should Learn Business of Health Care

    November 14, 2013

    Medical students do not understand the business of health care, but changing that may be as easy as attending an eight-hour lecture. That's according to a study from Drexel University College of Medicine, which was recently published in the Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators.

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  • AAHRPP Accreditation

    November 12, 2013

    Each volunteer participant in Drexel University’s 1,400 active research projects involving human subjects represents an opportunity to advance knowledge and save or improve lives. But each also represents a risk for human suffering and for irreparable damage to Drexel’s research enterprise if something goes wrong.

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  • Making Research Safer for Human Subjects: Q&A with Andrew Wechsler

    November 12, 2013

    Each volunteer participant in Drexel University's 1,400 active research projects involving human subjects represents an opportunity to advance knowledge and save or improve lives. But each also represents a risk for human suffering and for irreparable damage to Drexel's research enterprise if something goes wrong.

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  • Drexel, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Hebew University Launch Research Consortium

    November 11, 2013

    The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia CEO Steven M. Altschuler, Drexel President John A. Fry and Hebrew University of Jerusalem President Menahem Ben-Sasson signed a research agreement today as part of Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter’s trade mission to Israel. The research partnership is designed to focus on pediatric translational research and to develop a collaborative platform for advancing pediatric medicine from the lab to the bedside.

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  • Top 5 Ways to Protect Your Bones

    November 04, 2013

    Half of American women and one eighth of American men will have a broken bone due to osteoporosis in their lifetime. But the good news is osteoporosis is preventable and treatable.

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  • Mary Edwards Walker

    November 04, 2013

    Mary Edwards Walker, one of the first women doctors to have a degree, is still the only woman to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor. A collection of items related to Walker is on display at the Drexel College of Medicine.

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