Jessica McDonald
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Making a better DNA vaccine by raising the alarm
Unlike most vaccines, which help protect you from a microbe before you’re infected, DNA vaccines have the potential to treat diseas ...
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Keeping an eye on fruit flies, Penn scientists shed light on sleep
New work published by neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania suggests we are getting closer to understanding how the drive to ...
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Community health workers help reduce hospitalizations
Doctors and nurses have been struggling for years with how to best improve the health of low-income patients, who on virtually every meas ...
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Kids in Philly suburbs generally healthy, but gaining weight
In recent years obesity rates have declined for kids in the city of Philadelphia. But the same does not appear to be true in the suburbs. ...
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EPA protesters gather in Philly for ‘die-in’
The regional Environmental Protection Agency office in Philadelphia serves the region including Appalachia. In the wake of the recent lar ...
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Camden County plan to lease psychiatric unit dissolves, worrying advocates for mentally ill
When Ocean Healthcare bought out the Camden County Health Services Center for $37 million last year, the plan was to let the county conti ...
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Mother Nature aids cleanup of Delaware River oil spill
Cleanup of the 1,000 gallons of crude oil that spilled into the Delaware River from a refinery near the Commodore Barry Bridge continues ...
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Pa., N.J. get failing grades on anti-smoking efforts
When the U.S. surgeon general first warned Americans about the health risks of smoking back in 1964, 46% of the country smoked. In the fi ...
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