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Kara DuBois lay in her bed in an intensive care unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) one day last month, connected to a balloon pump which was helping her weakened heart push blood through the veins and arteries.

As a Latina scientist in academia, Kellie Jurado, PhD, is devoted to building the community and infrastructure to ensure underserved and underrepresented students get the support to thrive at Penn, and beyond.

John Soditus started to suspect something was wrong with him this past June. He was taking twice as long to mow his lawn as he normally would, and he needed to stop and rest multiple times along the way.

The stories of people gaining weight during lockdown are so common that there’s a term for it: The COVID 15. For people who are struggling with extra weight or looking for ways to get healthier, the expert advice today is a little bit different than during pre-pandemic times.

Through all of the challenges posed by COVID-19 and civil unrest alike, Eve J. Higginbotham, SM, MD, ML, vice dean for Inclusion and Diversity and professor of Ophthalmology, has been busy sharing her voice and taking action.

For some, it’s a part of their morning ritual. People will brew some coffee, brush their teeth, and step on the scale to see if the number from the day before has somehow skyrocketed to a personally uncomfortable level.

Nosheen Reza, MD, an instructor in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, has made it her mission to tackle disparities and increase the representation of women in the field.

Lack of information – —and the rampant spread of misinformation — is just one challenge confronting the 39,000 members of Lancaster County’s Amish community during the pandemic.

We came together as Perelman School of Medicine students because we wanted to increase educational equity in access to medical school.

It started with a cough. In the fall of 2019, months before a tickle in the throat would send anyone into COVID-19 panic, Susan Bosanko, 59, was unalarmed. Then, she started to cough up the “awful things” — soft, rubbery, branch-like structures, which she said resembled “baby umbilical cords.”