Blog Topic: COVID-19

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  At a Community Health Center in Cobbs Creek, Doctors are Offering COVID Testing — and Screening for Depression

  May 22, 2020

  Cars crowded along 59th Street and wrapped around the block on the first day that Sayre Health Center opened its COVID drive/walk-through testing site in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia.

  COVID-19 Human Interest In the News Infectious Disease
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  Microbiology, Genetics, and Neuroscience: Meet More Next-Generation Scientists Stepping Up to Fight COVID-19

  May 20, 2020

  For Susan Weiss, PhD, a professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine with more than four decades of experience studying coronaviruses, the pandemic means more work for her, and her students, post-docs, and technicians, than ever before.

  Basic Science COVID-19 In the News Human Interest Infectious Disease
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  The Front-line Researchers: The Next Generation of Scientists Steps Up to Fight the Pandemic

  May 18, 2020

  University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine scientists and clinicians have begun an unprecedented number of studies and clinical trials investigating a single virus, SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19, the disease it causes.

  COVID-19 Human Interest In the News Basic Science
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  A ‘Bright Spot’ Amid Darkness: How Penn Palliative Care Doctors Are Aiding West Philly Nursing Homes

  May 14, 2020

  “Penn Palliative Care has been a bright spot during one of the darkest times,” Uy said. “There is no question about that. This situation highlights that when different sites of care collaborate, it can be a win-win for everybody.”

  COVID-19 Home Hospice and Palliative Care Human Interest In the News
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  A Chorus of Connections

  May 12, 2020

  At a time when individuals are being asked to socially distance, music is helping people connect like never before. For staff at Penn Medicine, one program is making this abundantly clear.

  COVID-19 Hospice Human Interest In the News Home Hospice and Palliative Care Psychology
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  Incredible ‘Accommodations’ for Blood Cancer Patients to Continue Care During COVID-19

  May 07, 2020

  For Parker-Magnum — as well as many other cancer patients at the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) — the coronavirus pandemic would cause changes in their care … and accommodations.

  COVID-19 Cancer In the News Human Interest
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  Sniffing Out an Unusually Common Phenomenon in COVID-19 Patients

  May 01, 2020

  Of all the COVID-19 symptoms Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil, sees in the emergency room, the loss of smell or taste is the strangest — but not because it’s caused by the virus. Other viruses are known to have the same effect. Rather, it’s because so many patients experience it and in different ways.

  COVID-19
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  Plant Care for Self-Care

  April 28, 2020

  The stay-at-home order can be challenging for many people as they try to adjust to a new schedule of working from home and avoiding physical contact with colleagues, family members, and friends.

  COVID-19 In the News Infectious Disease
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  A Silver Lining to COVID-19: A Community’s Unwavering Support of its Hospital

  April 28, 2020

  Chester County Hospital and its community have always enjoyed a special relationship. Since the hospital’s founding in 1892 — well before the notorious 1918 Flu swept across the globe as the 20th century’s great pandemic — the two have worked together seamlessly, identifying one another’s needs and finding ways to ensure they are met.

  COVID-19 Human Interest In the News Infectious Disease
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  An Exercise Regimen for Those Stuck Inside During the COVID19 Outbreak

  April 23, 2020

  It’s been about a month since social distancing has become largely mandatory. For many, that has meant an extraordinary amount of time spent indoors and at home, which can be emotionally-taxing for those who previously made the gym a part of their routines.

  COVID-19 Physical Medicine Rehabilitation General Interest