Peter Reese's Team Wins American Society of Transplantation 2020 Innovation Award
Congratulations to our department’s Peter Reese, MD, MSCE, whose team won the 2020 Innovation Award from the American Society of Transplantation for research on using...
Philadelphia Launches Philly Vax Sweepstakes
Several members of our department, Drs. Katy Milkman, Kevin Volpp, and Alison Buttenheim, helped design and launch the Philly Vax Sweepstakes, an incentive program to help...
Philadelphia Premiere of the film ANTHRAX, ft. special guest Jonathan Moreno
After the death of their friend, five former IDF soldiers from the same squad realize they are suffering from mysterious illnesses they believe to be side effects of an...
Philadelphia’s Sweetened Drink Sales Drop 38 Percent after Beverage Tax
On January 1, 2017, Philadelphia became the second city in the United States to implement a tax on the distribution of sugary and artificially sweetened beverages. The goal...
Philly Film Society presents "Experimenter" & discussion with Professor Jonathan Moreno
EXPERIMENTER Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Taryn Manning In 1961, social psychologist Stanley Milgram embarked on one of the most famous,...
Philly Police End Practice of Releasing Mental Health Status of Missing Residents
The Philadelphia Police Department says it has stopped releasing the mental health status of Philadelphia residents reported missing, something the department had been doing...
Philly's soda tax has spawned multiple studies. Here's what we've learned
Philadelphia’s tax on soda and other sweetened beverages has been in effect for nearly a year. As city officials, business owners, and beverage industry lobbyists continue to...