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Volume 59 (2012-2013 Academic Year)
March 26, 2013 Fels Institute of Government Offers Solutions for Economic Development; Nanoparticles Engineered to Shuttle Cancer Drug Past Immune System; Reprogramming Cells to Fight Diabetes; Penn Vet Team Uncovers a Pathway That Stimulates Bone Growth; Psych Professor Puts New Wrinkle in Marshmallow Test; Two-pronged Immune Cell Approach Could Lead to a Universal Shot Against the Flu; Tweaking Gene Expression to Repair Lungs
January 22, 2013 Hiring Extra Temporary Travel Nurses May Save Lives; Mountains Are Only Minor Contributors to Sediment Erosion and Climate Regulation; Black and Hispanic Patients Less Likely to Complete Substance Abuse Treatment; Homelessness and Academic Achievement
November 6, 2012

Building Road Maps to Close the Achievement Gap; Biomarkers in Blood May Detect Alzheimer's Disease; You Have to Eat Except When You're Not Hungry; Present Verb Tense Can Positively Affect Substance Abuse

September 18, 2012 Intentionally Unvaccinated Students Put Others at Risk | Researchers Call for Obesity Prevention Efforts to Focus on Community-Wide Systems that Influence Early Life | Penn Researchers Make First All-optical Nanowire Switch
Volume 58 (2011-2012 Academic Year)
May 8, 2012 Identifying a Gene Responsible for Male Infertility and a Respiratory Disorder | Mothers of Kids with Autism Earn Significantly Less | Food Stamps and Famers' Markets
March 27, 2012 Mayo Clinic, Penn and Partners to Explore New Ways to Predict and Control Seizures| $3.5 Million to Study New Approaches to Prevent the Effects of Stress in Military Personnel | Discovering and Characterizing a 300-Million-Year-Old Peat-forming Forest at a Site Near Wuda, China | Decreasing the Risk of Failure to Thrive with New Feeding Device | Mentoring Provides Health Benefits for African-American Veterans with Diabetes | Policy and Leadership Vacuum Undermines Higher Education in Washington State | Sleepless in the South: State and Regional Prevalence of Sleep Disturbance
February 21, 2012 Affects of "Shadow Education" on Academic Success of East Asian America | Why Do Some Young People Choose to Get Tested for STDs and Others Don't? | Sleep Problems Increase Risk for Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Obesity | Following Traumatic Event, Early Intervention Reduces Odds of PTSD in Children
December 20, 2011 Antibiotics for Acne Linked to Sore Throat | Asking for Help in Elementary School: Middle-Class vs. Working-Class Students | Penn Nursing's Autism Research Tops in TIME | Shopper's Channel Usage
November 1, 2011 Minority Teacher Recruitment: Fact or Fiction? | Heavy Media Use: Poorer Mental Health in Young People | “Rule of Rescue” Often Prevails in Critical Care Units | Barriers To Emergency Dental Care Based On Insurance
July 12, 2011 Short-Nosed Dogs Can Breathe Easier During Critical Care | A War Inside: Saving Veterans from Suicide | ADHD Drug Helps Menopausal Women with Memory | Facebook Users More Trusting & More Politically Engaged
Volume 57 (2010-2011 Academic Year)
May 10, 2011 Mobile Polling Breaks Voting Barriers for Seniors in Long Term Care Facilities| University-supported Housing Outperforms Philadelphia Housing | Preventing Chronic Diseases in People Living with HIV/AIDS | Cardiovascular Patients’ Perspectives On Guilt as a Motivational Tool | Male High School Athletes: Higher Risk of Gambling
April 19, 2011 Impact of Graphic Tobacco Warning Labels | Positive Effect of Philly Neighborhood Reinvestment | Influencing Children’s Taste: Characters on Packaging | The Protective Power of Culture
March 15, 2011 Antidepressant Use: Reducing Hot Flashes | Sideline Test: Detecting Athletes’ Concussions in Minutes | Math Research: Plenty of Time for Evolution |School-Based Program: Reducing Sexual Behaviors in South African Teens | Effective Blood Test for Ectopic Pregnancy
February 1, 2011 Youth Victims of Cyberbullying at Increased Risk of Suicide | New Gene for Heart Failure in Caucasians | Weightlifting Slashes Lymphedema Risk After Breast Cancer Treatment | Influence of Non-Catholics on the Changes Brought by Vatican II
December 14, 2010 Penn IUR Report on Vacant Land Management | Hospital CPR Quality is Worse at Night | Violence in Inner City Neighborhoods: Trouble with Asthma | Desktop Medicine: Transforming the Practice of Medicine
October 12, 2010 Exploring African-American Family Foundations and Philanthropic-Giving Strategies | Anticancer Activity in Additives of Ancient Alcoholic Drinks | How Old Is Too Old for Colic Surgery? | Catastrophic Flooding May Be More Predictable After Penn Researchers Build a Mini River Delta | A Rapid Blood Test to Quickly Rule Out Appendicitis? | Nanotechnologists Collaborate to Form Near-Frictionless Diamond Material
Volume 56 (2009-2010 Academic Year)
April 27, 2010

A Brain-Recording Device that Melts into Place | Gene Therapy Cures Canines of Inherited Form of Day Blindness | Low-Fat Diets Outlast Low-Carb Diets | Increasingly Violent Content Assigned to PG-13 Movies

March 2, 2010

Sexual Activity in Tweens Delayed By Abstinence-only Program | Examining the Protective Effects of Mindfulness Training | Team-based Approach Improves ICU Outcomes | Longer Use of Nicotine Patch Improves Abstinence from Smoking

February 2, 2010 Trauma Patients Safe from Mortality Risks Despite “Weekend Effect” | Language Structure is Partly Determined by Social Structure | Important Information Omitted in News Coverage of HPV, Cervical Cancer
January 19, 2010 Cooperation Is Key to Reducing Greenhouse Gases | Technology Not as Isolating | Hospital Checklists Need Improvement | Weight Loss Partners Help African-Americans Lose More | Antidepressants Work Best for Severe Depression
October 20, 2009 Gun Possession of Questionable Value in an Assault | Miscalculations of Weight and Caloric Intake | Americans Reject Tailored Advertising | Visual Learners Convert Words to Pictures and Vice Versa
September 22, 2009 Nurse Satisfaction Increases Patient Satisfaction | Foreclosures Causing Health Problems | Advances in Development Reverse Fertility Declines | Clues of Aging Glass
Volume 55 (2008-2009 Academic Year)
March 31, 2009 Designing A Robotic Beachcomber | Stressed Parents More Likely to Abuse Children | Health Insurance: An Investment to Cover Young Adults | For Psychiatric Services, Wait for the Beep
February 24, 2009

Surviving Cardiac Arrest Depends On Where Treated | Serious Spread of the Vine by Ancient Wine Makers | Consensus Building Influenced By Network Structure | Brain Structure Assists in Immune Response

January 27, 2009 Undiagnosed Psoriasis Cases Put Lives at Risk | Internet Gambling Stays Low Among Youth | Requirement to Forgo Cancer Treatment Causes Racial Disparities in Hospice Use | Breast Cancer Survivors Call for More “Survivorship Care” from Primary Care Providers
November 18, 2008 Skin Color Affects Detection of Rape Injuries | Doctor-Patient Communication Key to Drug Adherence | Stem Cells that Could Regenerate Injured Liver Tissue | $1 Billion Wasted? Fault With Anti-Drug Campaign
October 21, 2008 Optimism Experts Handicap the Presidential Election | MsFLASH: NIH Initiative Treatments for Menopause| Tests for Blocking Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease | Esophageal Cancer Tumor Suppressor
September 30, 2008 Is the US Ready for a Woman President? | Philanthropists Share Charitable-Giving Approaches | Tolerance of Mental Illness the Same as 10 Years Ago | Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Earlier
Volume 54 (2007-2008 Academic Year)
February 26, 2008 Increased Health Risks Among Women When Weighed in Public | African Americans Less Likely to Choose Epidurals | Identifying Smokers for Relapse in Smoking Cessation Treatment | Differences in English- & Spanish-speakers’ Use of Oncology Websites
January 22, 2008 “In Your Face” Television Debates’ Effect on Audiences | Increased Disability Among Older, Obese Adults | Nurses Want to Leave Hospitals Due to “Moral Distress” | Carbon Nanopipettes Able to Measure Electric Current
December 11, 2007 Annenberg’s i-neighbors Brings Community Closer | Earliest Chocolate Drink was Alcoholic Beverage
November 13, 2007 Unanticipated Consequences of Health Care IT | Pinpointing Brain Waves that Distinguish Memories | Effect of Medical Residency on Patient Mortality | Older African American Men with HIV Shun Condoms
October 16, 2007

Where Should I Have My Outpatient Surgery? | Increase in Type 1 Diabetes Among Black Children | Proposed Reforms to Fix Voting Problems Reported in ’04, ’06 National Elections | Little Support for Mandatory HPV Vaccinations | Computer Memory Designed for Faster Retrieval in Nanoscale Form

Volume 53 (2006-2007 Academic Year)
September 19, 2006 Back to School: Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome | Lack of Sleep Impairs Commercial Drivers Performance | More Dinosaurs to be Discovered | Socioeconomic Factors Are Determinants of Sunburn | Fossils Depict Aquatic Origins for Near-Modern Birds
November 7, 2006 Advanced Training Through Simulations for Med Students | Black Youth and Depression | More Diverse Dinosaurs to be Discovered | Baby Talk is More Sophisticated Than Thought | Decreased Brain Activity When Speaking in Tongues
December 19, 2006 How Segregated Communities Shape Racial Attitudes | How HPV is Presented Affects Use | Older Men Treated for Early Prostate Cancer Live Longer | Progress Against Overlooked Lung Disease in Women | JitterBugs Could Turn Your Keyboard Against You
February 6, 2007 Penn E-lert Improvements Increase Efficiency | Equity for Black College Students in the South? | Thought-Controlled Artificial Limbs | Ineffectiveness of Laser Treatment in Macular Degeneration | New Therapy to Treat Severe Cholesterol Levels
April 3, 2007

Increasing Fertility in Women with PCOS | Veterans Highly Tolerant of Detainee Abuse | Illnesses May Cause Chronic Subjective Dizziness | Effects of Meditation on Early Cognitive Impairment

May 1, 2007

Gene-Environment Interactions in Lung Cancer | Link Between Autism and Abnormal Blood-Vessel Function and Oxidative Stress | Meditation Helps Congestive Heart Failure

Volume 52 (2005-2006 Academic Year)
July 12, 2005 Clutch Hitters and Choke Hitters: Myth or Reality? | Methods of Advocating Breastfeeding | Primary Graft Dysfunction & Lung Transplant Deaths | Solving Why Things Melt with Extra-large “Atoms”
October 4, 2005 How Do Otters Remain Sleek and Warm? | Impact of Bupropion in Smoking Cessation Treatment | Implantable Pump Device to Treat Heart Disease | DNA-Based Sensors for Nano-Tongues and Nano-Noses
November 15, 2005 Electronics Using Light Instead of Electricity | Using MRI for Early Diagnosis of Schizophrenia | Physically Abused Boys Become Abusers as Adults
January 10, 2006 “Unit Bias” Determines the Acceptable Amount to Eat | One-of-a-Kind Research Tool Focuses on KIDS | New Technique for Better Diagnosis & Treatment of Stress | Voter Questions Not Answered By Local Election Boards
February 14, 2006 Preference for Beauty Might Be Hard-wired | Baboons in Mourning Seek Comfort Among Friends | Night Eating Syndrome & Psychiatric Outpatients | fMRI Used to Detect Memory Storage and Retrieval
March 28, 2006 Dog Owners Hide Truth from Shelters | Thermal Energy to Reduce Asthmatic Symptoms | Hospitalization or Death of Elderly Spouse Substantially Affects Husband or Wife’s Mortality | Most At-Risk Patients for Secondary Strokes
May 9, 2006 African-Americans More Likely to Report Low Trust in Health Care Providers | Prevent or Delay “Middle-aged Spread” by Lifting Weights | Most Effective Treatments for Alcohol Dependence | Research Findings On Radiation-Induced Cancer
Volume 51 (2004-2005 Academic Year)
July 13, 2004 Star Making Peaked Five Billion Years Ago; Expect Darkness | New Therapeutic Approach for Sickle Cell Disease | Newly Found Dinosaur of the Montana Coastline | Failure of DNA Repair Precedes Final Stage of Leukemia | Aklylating DNA Damage Stimulates Necrotic Cell Death | Protein Difference Between Humans and Primates | Bacterial Protein Recycling Factor Possible Key to New Class of Antibiotics
September 21, 2004 Law Students Draft a Criminal Code for Maldives | Artificial Pores May Lead to a Future Full of Holes | Decoupling the Control of Brain Cancer Cells | 9/11 Search-and-Rescue Dogs Exhibit Few Effects
October 12, 2004 Big Cities and Small Towns: Similar Risks of Gun Death | T Cell's Memory: Immunity to Leishmaniasis | Common Butterfly: Actually 10 Different Species | Artistic Expression: Need Not End After Brain Damage
November 9, 2004 Influencing Metabolism with Molecular Clock Genes | Identifying Initial Sensor for p53 Tumor-Suppressing Pathway | Treating Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Participating in National Alzheimer's Disease Research
January 18, 2005 U.S. Falls to 27th in World Social Progress | Nature and Prevalence of Errors in Patient Care | Resistin Integral Part of the Inflammatory Response | Heritability of Non-Genomic Information | Ethical Challenges Ahead for Neuroscience and Society | Major Commercial Weight Loss Programs Evaluated | Effects Between Vioxx and Celebrex Studied | Tiwanaku Project to Collect Detailed Subsurface Data
March 15, 2005 Miniaturized Lab Permits Saliva Screening on the Go | Nano-Sized Probes Allow Researchers to See Tumors | Defining Who We Are When We Work Together | Enzyme Shown to Help Protect Genomic Stability
April 19, 2005 Tail of the Gene Tells the Tale of Machado-Joseph Disease | Cognitive Therapy Works As Well As Antidepressants | Mouse Model for MSA Points to Treatment for Brain Diseases | Unchecked DNA Replication Drives Steps Toward Cancer
Volume 50 (2003-2004 Academic Year)
September 16, 2003 Discovery of Solar System 'Fossils' | Unemployment, Rents Push Families to Homelessness | Sleep Deprivation Impairs Memory Consolidation | Deadly 'Drug Corner' Moves to Your Computer
October 7, 2003 "Smart Payment Card" | Refusing Medications Based on Quality of Life | African-American Males and Prostate Cancer | More Patients Die After Common Surgeries
November 25, 2003 Molecule that Makes Life Possible | Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes and DNA Repair | Sirtuins in Metabolism, Aging, Gene Expression | Vaccines to Protect Newborns in Developing World
January 20, 2004 Baboons May Have Influenced Human Evolution | Strength and Conductivity of Nanotube-Laced Materials | Transition to Adulthood Delayed | Electronic Scale Lowers Mortality Rates
March 2, 2004 Mastectomies Significantly Lower Risk of Breast Cancer | The Body's 911 Call: Why Blood Flow Stops Short | Cache of Seal Impressions Discovered in Western India | Generation Gap Explains Decline in Feminist Ranks
Volume 49 (2002-2003 Academic Year)
July 16, 2002 $302,000 Award for Sumerian Dictionary Project | Studying Smallpox Without Smallpox| Urine Test Predicts Alzheimer’s Disease | Implant May Stabilize Schizophrenia Patients’ Treatment for a Full Year
October 29, 2002 Neural Stem Cells Improve Motor Function in Brain Injuries | More Patients Die in Hospitals with Lower Nurse Staffing | Gene that Regulates Development of Heart Cells Identified | Foxd3 Gene Allows Stem Cells to Remain Stem Cells
January 14, 2003 Impacting Smoking Cessation | Averting Parkinson's Disease in Fruit Flies | Challenging the Way Race is Used in Research | Beating Pneumonia by a Nose | Fighting the West Nile Virus
February 11, 2003 Summer Research Support for Junior Faculty | New Investigator Awards | Alavi-Dabiri Postdoctoral Fellowship Award | Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Disease
March 18, 2003 Designing Accessible Passenger Trains | Giant Self-assembled Liquid Crystal Lattice | Insect Antibiotics: A Model for Therapeutic Agents | Women in Region: Facing Significant Inequality
May 27, 2003 Transplant Cardiologists on Controlling Hypertension | Immersive Experience Without 3-D Goggles | Producing Mouse Eggs from Embryonic Stem Cells | Accruing 'Sleep Debts' With Inadequate Nightly Sleep
Volume 48 (2001-2002 Academic Year)
BIOENGINEERING GRANT | CELL SUICIDE | FIREARM INJURY CTR. | DEBUGGING COMPUTERS | GARGANTUAN DISCOVERY
October 9 , 2001 BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY DETOXIFIES HEAVY METALS | FUEL CELL USING LIQUID DIESEL | GENE CARRIES MESSAGES FROM CIRCADIAN CLOCK | 'HEART SENSE' GAME PASSES EARLY TEST
December 11, 2001 $1.26 Million to Study Microfluidic Systems | $2.84 Million to Improve Reliability of Computers | National Technology Lab for Adult Education | "Fuzzy" Molecules Assemble into Distinct Lattices | Mild Head Injury Increases Brain's Vulnerability
December 18, 2001 MOLECULE COULD YEILD EMBRYNIC STEM CELLS | DARK MATTER OBJECT IN MILKY WAY | SACHS FOUNDATION: ENTREPRENEURSHIP | CANINE ARTHRITIS
February 5, 2002 Throne of King Midas | $40 M. Kidney Disease Study | Head Injury & Alzheimers | CD4 T Cells | Volunteers: Depressive Disorder Study
April 9, 2002 $10 M. NIH Funds | Cure: Atrial Fibrillation | Inequality Disease Treatment | 9/11 Rescue Dog Study | Experiment in Sentencing
May 28, 2002 Detecting pain in infants and children | understanding a matriarchy | treating severe depression | preparing troops to train with simulated situations.
Volume 47 (2000-2001 Academic Year)
May 29, 2001 Stretching Neurons Induces Growth | Detecting Proteins with IDAT | Ancient Frog Named for Professor | Progenitor Cells' Protective Effect | Plant Genes: Less Pesticides
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