May 9 2020: College Fellow and Trustee Edith Mitchell, MD, MACP, made Philadelphia Magazine’s list of “8 Trailblazing Women in Philly’s Health-Care Revolution”
The forces driving Philly medicine are increasingly female. Meet the women at the forefront of the movement.
May 9 2020: Dr. René Najera, epidemiologist and editor of the College’s HistoryofVaccines.org, appeared on NPR
They see these demonstrations as a way to form political alliances that promote their movement.
May 5 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, spoke about the mutation of viruses on Salon.com
The dominant strain in much of the world is now a more contagious variant of the original virus…
May 5 2020: College Fellow, Herbert Cushing, MD, appeared on Maine Public Radio to talk about the latest in COVID-19 updates and experiencing COVID-19
New information and research continues to emerge regarding COVID-19. We will discuss the evolving knowledge about the disease, including: a range of
May 4 2020: Robert Hicks, former Director of the Mütter Museum, explains why it can be hard for individuals to accept a pandemic and the regulations that come with it (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
First off, foresight is not a particular skill for most of us, experts say. And “live free or die” is more than a slogan; it’s an apt description for the mindset of many Americans. Finally, it is hard to assess the threat of an enemy you can’t see, like the coronavirus.
May 3 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, appeared on Today to talk about the U.S. re-opening
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss the reopening of state economies and how it would be “unprecedentedly quick” to have a coronavirus vaccine by January.
April 30 2020: College Fellow Virginia Hall, MD, discussed the benefits of physician health plans
Support PHPs as PHPs prevent suicide. Stay safe. Be well.
April 27 2020: College Fellow, Pascal Jabbour, MD, appeared on CNN to talk about COVID-19 and sudden strokes
April 27 2020: The Inquirer featured the Mütter Museum commissioned song, “Protect Yourself from Infection,” written by David Lang and performed by The Crossing (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The David Lang composition, performed by Philadelphia’s The Crossing choir, was part of last fall?s “Spit Spreads Death” parade. It gets a national airing on public radio on Monday.
25 April 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, spoke to ABC News about COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing (Source: 6 ABC)
Scientists are tacking the question of how to scale-up COVID-19 vaccine production once a vaccine is found.
