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LDI Senior Fellow Charlie Branas discusses the risk of being shot near take out alcohol outlets (ABC News, 7/19/07).

LDI Senior Fellow Flaura Winston is interviewed about her new study on the dangers of distractions for teen drivers (ABC News, Jan. 25, 2007)

LDI Senior Fellow Dennis Culhane discusses preliminary results from Massachusetts that suggest that most resources devoted to combatting homelessness are not getting to families most in need. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/2/07)

LDI Research Director and Senior Fellow Katrina Armstrong talks about new evidence that early treatment of prostate cancer may lengthen survival for elderly men.
(Philadelphia Tribune online, 12/19/06)

LDI Senior Fellow Richard Cooper comments on the downside of "boutique medicine." (CBS News, 7/20/06)

Senior Fellow Flaura Winston's crash data study confirms child safety seats, boosters offer survival advantage to child passengers. (PRNewswire, (6/05/06)

Senior Fellow Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, comments on the reasons poorer teens are more apt to be fat. (Baltimore Sun - 5/24/06) Note - If you do not have an account with the Baltimore Sun, you will be required to register. Registration is free.

Senior Fellow Caryn Lerman conducts smoking study that has researchers one step closer to tailored treatment to help smokers quit smoking (Science Daily - 5/19/06)

Researchers from Penn and CHOP, including LDI Senior Fellow James Lewis, conduct study that proves childhood arthritis raises risk of broken bones. (Medical News Today - 5/12/06)

Senior Fellow Judith Long discusses ways to reduce health disparities (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/20/06)

LDI Senior Fellow David Casarett comments on quality of care in for-profit hospices (Reuters, 4/10/06)

Senior Fellow Art Caplan discusses the ethics of informed consent for the patient receiving the world's first partial face transplant (Baltimore Sun, 12/04/2005)

LDI Senior Fellow Dennis Culhane, Director of Penn's Cartographic Modeling Laboratory, comments on the potential applications of electronic 3-D computer modeling of buildings and places (NY Times, 2/17/05).

LDI Senior Fellow Charles Branas notes that gun suicides in rural areas equal gun homicides in urban areas (NY Times, 2/13/05)

LDI Senior Fellow Brian Strom voices concerns about the possibility of cholesterol-lowering drugs becoming available without a prescription. (NY Times, 1/13/05)

LDI Senior Fellows Art Caplan and Jason Karlawish comment on ensuring voting rights for the aging and mentally ill: At what point is someone too impaired to cast a ballot? (MSNBC News 9/14/04)

LDI Senior Fellow Chris Feudtner comments on as diseases become more treatable, ethical challenges emerge. (Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/5/04)

LDI Senior Fellow Terry Richmond comments on Philadelphia's high murder rate, relative to New York.

LDI Senior Fellow Jason Karlawish comments on the limitations of current drugs for Alzheimer's (NY Times, (4/7/04).

LDI Senior Fellow Brian Strom comments on the marketing of new blockbuster drugs (Phila. Inquirer, 3/10/04)

LDI Senior Fellow Mark Pauly comments on the recent rise in U.S. health care spending. (NY Times, 1/9/04)

LDI Senior Fellow Rob Field is interviewed on NPR about new genetic tests that can predict individual reactions to many prescription drugs. (6/25/03) (segment starts 4:16 into the broadcast)

LDI Senior Fellows Mark Pauly and Lawton Burns discuss the rise of health care costs on NPR's Radio Times (6/24/03)

A new study by LDI Senior Fellow Douglas Wiebe highlights the homicide and suicide risks posed by having a gun in the home (5/27/03)

FDA advisory panel member and LDI Senior Fellow Andrea Apter comments on the safety of Genentech's new asthma drug (5/16/03)

LDI Senior Fellows Therese Richmond and Charles Branas are featured in Philadelphia Weekly in the cover story about the Firearm Injury Center at Penn (FICAP) (4/23/03)

As chairman of the IOM's committee on smallpox vaccination program implementation, LDI Senior Fellow Brian Strom comments on the risks of the administration's aggressive vaccination strategy. (3/27/03)

LDI Senior Fellow Linda Aiken comments on her landmark study linking nurse understaffing with poor patient outcomes. Four other LDI Senior Fellows contributed to the study, published in the October 23 issue of JAMA.

Adjunct Senior Fellow Rob Field is heard on Marketplace Morning Report 9/25/02. He comments on a recent GAO report finding an increase in drug recalls after the FDA began speeding up drug approvals in 1994.

LDI Senior Fellow Rob Burns looks back at the Allegheny System failure and its repercussions. (9/1/02)

LDI Senior Fellow Linda Aiken comments on nurse staffing in an article linking the nursing shortage and poor outcomes. (8/08/02)

LDI Senior Fellow Art Caplan reviews "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise (6/21/02)

LDI Senior Fellow Flaura Winston discusses her new study that reveals the dangers of children riding in the back seats of compact "extended cab" pickup trucks. (3/06/02)

The Institute of Medicine releases a new report on the safety and efficacy of the existing anthrax vaccine. LDI Senior Fellow Brian Strom chaired the IOM committee. (3/06/02)

LDI Senior Fellow Mary Naylor named to the Marion S. Ware Chair in Gerontology, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (2/12/02)

LDI Senior Fellow Patricia Danzon comments on falling pharmaceutical stock prices. (12/23/01)

LDI Senior Fellow Dennis Culhane comments on a surge in homelessness. (12/22/01)

Olivia Mitchell, member of the President's Commission on Social Security and an LDI Senior Fellow, comments on the commission's final report. (12/11/01)

LDI Senior Fellow Brian Strom, who chairs the IOM's Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine, comments on the use of antibiotics in the current anthrax scare. (10/12/01)

LDI Senior Fellow Margaret Stineman's FRGs are being implemented nationwide, and are part of the Federal register: (8/07/01)

LDI Senior Fellow Art Caplan discusses the ethics of human cloning for therapeutic uses. (8/01/01)
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In the Philadelphia Inquirer, Senior Fellow Robert Lowe comments on the practice of asking emergency department patients about their use of alternative medicine and treatments. (10/30/00)

LDI Senior Fellows Linda Aiken and Maureen McClausland comment about the nationwide nursing shortage in the Philadelphia Inquirer (10/10/00)

LDI Senior Fellow Mark Pauly comments on Penn's financial turnaround this year (9/15/00)

Dennis Culhane, LDI Senior Fellow, discusses homelessness and public shelter in an online forum on 7/27/00 . go to transcript

LDI Senior Fellow Peter Ubel discussed the high cost of prescription drugs, on NPR's "Fresh Air." (7/13/00)

LDI Senior Fellow Glenn McGee was interviewed on NPR about the future of genetics research. (6/26/00). And McGee and colleague David Magnus comment on the ethical and social impact of genetic breakthroughs in The Philadelphia Inquirer. (6/29/00)

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Senior Fellow Rosemary Stevens was among a panel of experts intervewed for the PBS Documentary on the uninsured, entitled "Health Care Crisis: Who's At Risk?" Stevens makes a case for health care reform by looking at current problems in the health care system from a historical perspective. (6/14/00)

USA Today reports on Senior Fellow Jeffrey Silber's testimony before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee about outcomes associated with nurse-anesthetists. (06/08/00)

USA Today	Testimony

Children ages 2-5 using seat belts are four times more likely to suffer a serious head injury as young children in car seats or booster seats, according to a study by Senior Fellow Flaura Winston. (06/06/00)

Dr. Winston and colleagues were also featured in the New York Times and USA Today. The researchers found that children who are not buckled up are three times more likely to be seriously hurt in a traffic accident. (5/23/00)

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The Philadelphia Inquirer summarized Will Ferniany's remarks during LDI's May 19 symposium on managed care. Ferniany, an LDI Senior Fellow and head of UPHS's Administrative and Network Services, reported on strategies that UPHS is using to ensure its financial health. (5/20/00)

"Lights, Camera, Ethics": Arthur Caplan featured in The Inquirer Magazine (5/14/00)

Mitchell Schnall, M.D. in The Inquirer for receiving a $6.3 million grant to develop a prototype of a database that will be capable of instantly retreiving and storing digital mamograms from facilities across the country.(5/11/00)

Does the emergence of Viagra and similar acting drugs represent a change in societal comfort levels with the formerly taboo topic of erectile dysfunction? Or, have unprecedented advances in science made the discovery of these types of drugs possible? It is likely that Viagra's sucess is the result of both factors. In The New York Times article "Impotence is Given Another Name and a Drug Market Grows," LDI Senior Fellow Alan Hillman says "You need to have the right researcher at the right moment in history." Hillman contends that as recently as 20 years ago, our society would not have accepted the marketing or selling of a drug to treat erectile dysfunction. (5/2/00)

On Feb. 2, 1978, a spectacular fire erupted at an illegal chemical dump in Chester, PA. More than 200 emergency workers were unwittingly exposed to toxic industrial wastes. High rates of cancer and other serious illnesses have beset the group ever since. LDI Senior Fellows Brian L. Strom and James D. Lewis analyzed the data on links between exposure and subsequent illnesses for a week-long series in the Philadelphia Inquirer. (4/30/00)