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Penn Medicine Highlights Potential for Existing Drugs Like Statins as Promising COVID-19 Treatments.
New data suggest statins as a potentially helpful class of drugs to fight COVID-19. Pointing to that study, Daniel Rader, MD, chair of...

Pam King Sams
Aug 18, 20201 min read
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5 Lessons from Penn Medicine’s Crisis Response
From Penn Medicine's Center for Healthcare Innovation - What we learned using two new care delivery innovations: satellite drive-thru...

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Aug 18, 20201 min read
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World leaders voice hope UAE-Israel deal could kickstart Middle East peace talks.
Israel and the UAE agreed to normalize relations on Thursday in a landmark US-brokered deal under which the Jewish state agreed to halt...

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Aug 17, 20201 min read
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University of Cambridge makes a global impact with Self-Healing Concrete.
Self-healing systems are very important because governments and municipalities all over the world spend huge amounts of money maintaining...

Pam King Sams
Aug 16, 20201 min read
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University of Cambridge engineers earn awards for Covid-19 pandemic service.
Two teams of Cambridge engineers have been recognized by the Royal Academy of Engineering for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic...

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Aug 14, 20201 min read
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Beyond the Pandemic... What should we do?
Increased working, learning and interacting online during the pandemic has widened the gap for those who lack digital skills or access....

Pam King Sams
Aug 13, 20201 min read
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Penn Medicine Explores How COVID-19 Sends Some Bodies to War with Themselves.
Nuala J. Meyer, MD, an associate professor of Medicine in Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, talks about cytokine storms in COVID-19...

Pam King Sams
Aug 11, 20201 min read
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Penn Medicine looks at Immune Response to Coronavirus and prospects for reinfection.
People recovering from COVID-19, only to fall ill and test positive again — have stoked fears that immunity to the novel coronavirus...

Pam King Sams
Aug 10, 20201 min read
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Pam King Sams featured in Victoria Ball's Widemindedness Podcasts in August.
I'm honored to be a featured speaker for Victoria Ball's Widemindedness podcasts in August. Widemindedness in a nutshell: The key to a...

Pam King Sams
Aug 6, 20201 min read
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Congratulations to Penn Medicine for being ranked as a top US Hospital.
Penn Medicine is honored to have, once again, been ranked among the top hospitals in the nation--and 1st in Pennsylvania--by U.S. News &...

Pam King Sams
Jul 28, 20201 min read
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Memorial Hermann Earns Top Recognition by U.S. News & World Report
TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital ranked No. 3 among the country’s top rehabilitation hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report’s Best...

Pam King Sams
Jul 28, 20202 min read
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Penn Medicine develops Donor Registry for patients who have recovered from COVID-19
Penn Medicine is seeking plasma donation from eligible healthy volunteers for a research study. Interested volunteers must have recovered...

Pam King Sams
Jul 21, 20201 min read
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Teams Explore Experimental Treatments for COVID-19
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, teams at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) are using a collaborative approach...

Pam King Sams
Jul 21, 20202 min read
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UNIVERSAL COVID-19 BIOBANK: A SUBSET OF THE PENN MEDICINE BIOBANK
Study Overview The Universal COVID-19 Biobank – a component of the Penn Medicine Biobank – is collecting and storing biological specimens...

Pam King Sams
Jul 20, 20201 min read
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers Identify Clinical Features of MIS-C in Children
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified key characteristics of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in...

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Jul 18, 20202 min read
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TIRR Memorial Hermann Research Center Releases Rehabilitation Research Highlights
The Brain Injury and Stroke Program has been designated a Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS) by the National Institute on...

Pam King Sams
Jul 17, 20201 min read
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Center for Wearable Exoskeletons Established at TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital
A gift from the Staman Ogilvie Fund for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery, Rehabilitation and Research, made through the Memorial Hermann...

Pam King Sams
Jul 16, 20201 min read
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers Help Identify Targets for COVID-19 Vaccine
Scientists Identify Targets for COVID-19 Vaccine Using Cancer Immunotherapy Tools Published on Jun 08, 2020 in CHOP News Cancer...

Pam King Sams
Jul 15, 20202 min read
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Cancer Center Ranked #1 in United States.
Cancer Center Ranked No. 1 in the United States! Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has shown that — no matter what challenges we...

Pam King Sams
Jul 14, 20201 min read
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Investigating Potential Covid-19 Therapies.
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, teams at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) are using a collaborative approach...

Pam King Sams
Jun 26, 20202 min read
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