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Shawn Smith got a full-time helper’s job with an electrical contractor in Philadelphia and is continuing his education at Delaware County Community College. Lauren Pelley went to work at a mental health center in Cherry Hill and is set to begin training to become a Certified Recovery Support Practitioner. As for Tamico Flack? “I wrote a self-help book,” she said. “The title is Becoming the ...

WHYY By People wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus move along the Schuylkill River Trail as tree blossoms with spring colors, Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) This is one of a series of articles in which reporters from WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk answer questions about vaccines and COVID-19 submitted by you, our audience. Ian Snyder is 25, and overall he’s not at high risk for COVID-19. But he didn’t take any chances this past winter. He didn’t see his parents for months, because he was worried about spreading the coronavirus t...

The 2021 John Lindenbaum Memorial Lecture and the Columbia Science and Health Equity Lecture Series welcomed John A. Rich, MD, MPH , last week for a Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Medicine Special Grand Rounds Lecture on approaches to healing the wounds of violence and racial trauma. Rich is a professor of health management and policy at the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice within the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is a longtime leader in public health whose work focuses on serving young Black men in urban settings....

April 20, 2021 During his Global Research Symposium presentation “Snails Over Time,” Paul Callomon, manager of the Academy of Natural Sciences’ Malacology Department, showed a snail shell that has been partially dissolved. As part of Drexel University’s 2021 “Climate Year” initiative to support and advance ongoing and new climate work and sustainable solutions at all levels of the University, the Office of Global Engagement invited Drexel researchers and international colleagues to virtually convene and share their research and work measuring, addressing an...

WHYY By COVID-19 vaccine seekers interact with FEMA volunteers at the clinic at Esperanza in North Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Vaccinations are back on track at Philadelphia’s second largest mass clinic, at Esperanza Charter School, after hundreds of appointments were rescheduled due to Tuesday’s announcement that further administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine would be put on hold temporarily. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health heeded the Food and Drug Administration recommendation, made out of an abundance of caution after six incidents of serious but rare bl...