The College of Public Health’s Nursing Department is enlisting students from Temple’s School of Theater, Film and Media Arts to assist in a research study that will explore a troubling issue: bias and racism in obstetrical care. Student actors will portray pregnant patients and healthcare providers in the Nursing Department’s Simulation Lab, participating in simulated clinical scenarios where racial bias occurs. The clinical scenarios are based in part upon interviews with community residents from North Philadelphia who have experienced or witnessed discrimination or mis...

The new generation of weight loss medications has become a sensation, from the pages of medical journals to People magazine. Jimmy Kimmel and Christina Applegate quipped about Ozempic, one of the medications, at Hollywood awards shows. Oprah Winfrey, who showed off a slimmed down look on the red carpet recently, said she'd added weight loss drugs to her fitness regimen. Science magazine named this class of medication, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1s), as the 2023 Breakthrough of the Year. GLP-1s have produced meaningful results and hold much promise. But what are the realitie...

Sarah Bauerle Bass will use a new collaborative grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to expand a software tool she developed with Michael Hall, an oncologist and clinical cancer geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, to help cancer patients make informed decisions about their care. Bass and Hall created Gene Pilot, a user-friendly online application that explains the potentially useful procedure of tumor genetic profiling (TGP) and helps patients articulate their questions and concerns about it. The use of multi-gene TGP to examine a patient’s tumor for targetable m...