Updated on May 13, 2021 at 6:58 am
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A rash of deadly violence has prisoner advocates asking for better conditions inside Philadelphia jails.
200 correctional officers have quit since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to city records.
The jail population dropped below 4,000 amid the coronavirus outbreak in 2020, but has since climbed back above 4,700.
The last time Eva Diaz spoke with her son, Frankie Jr., he was complaining about fellow inmates but looking forward to what he saw as his eventual release from the Philadelphia Detention Center.
“Next month, I go to trial. I know I m going to beat this and I ll be home,” she recalled him saying Aug. 16 last year. “I ll be alright. Don t worry.”
By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer (reprinted with permission) | May 06, 2021
In an operating room at Dayton Children’s Hospital on April 8, 4-year-old Benny Landsman of Brooklyn received the first new clinical trial of an FDA-approved gene therapy for Canavan disease.
Neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Lober placed four catheters in holes drilled into Benny’s skull, down a track to a fluid space in the brain’s ventricles. Lober then manually injected a fluid containing 370 trillion viral genomes of the new therapy.
By his side in the operating room were the trial’s clinical leader, Dr. Christopher G. Janson, also with Dayton Children’s and Premier Health’s Clinical Neuroscience Institute, and longtime Canavan researcher Paola Leone, professor of cell biology at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, and director of Rowan’s Cell and Gene Therapy Center.
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Leapfrog Group gave D safety grades to Phoenixville and Pottstown hospitals in its spring report, while Chester County Hospital and Paoli Hospital received A s. (Shutterstock)
PHOENIXVILLE, PA Hospital safety grades from Leapfrog were low for several Tower Health hospitals in Chester County, including Phoenixville Hospital, Brandywine Hospital, and Pottstown Hospital.
The three facilities were awarded grades of D by the Leapfrog Group, an organization the performs regular assessments of hospitals. Numerous Pennsylvania hospitals received top safety marks while others didn t quite measure up in The Leapfrog Group s annual spring safety grades.
The nonprofit health care watchdog group grades hospitals twice a year, assigning letter grades from A to F based on each hospital s ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries, and infections.
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