VotER Initiative Rolls out through Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine is participating in an online voter registration initiative called VotER ahead of the November election to help patients, visitors, faculty, staff, and trainees...

Want people to quit smoking? Offer them money.

E-cigarettes, on their own, don’t appear to be very good at saving lives. If you really want to get smokers to quit, you need to build an incentive structure. Consider a...

Warning Stalled Immunotherapy Takeover in Bladder Cancer

The FDA's May 2018 warning against prescribing immunotherapy alone in bladder cancer patients with low PD-L1 expression quickly reversed the surge in use of these agents as...

Wasteful Health Care Spending in the United States

"We measure what we can measure": Struggles in defining and evaluating institutional review board quality

We Need Comprehensive Long-Term Care Reform, And We Need It Now

By Norma B. Coe, PhD, for The Hill By 2050, 18.9 million Americans will be over the age of 85 and, if patterns continue, more than 40 percent of them will need long-term...

We need more signal and less noise about industry payments to doctors

My colleagues and I think this unintended consequence presents a marketing opportunity for astute physicians with no ties to drug and device companies. A bit of background:...

Weaponizing principles: clinical ethics consultations & the plight of the morally vulnerable.

Welcome 2019 ELSI Fellow: Moira Kyweluk

The Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy is thrilled to welcome Moira Kyweluk to the ELSI Genomics Postdoctoral Training Program in August 2019. The ELSI program is...

Welcoming Dr. Angela Shen

We are delighted to welcome our newest adjunct faculty member Angela K. Shen, ScD, MPH to the Department. Dr. Shen is a retired CAPTAIN from the US Public Health Service,...