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Coleman Drake

Anxiety diagnoses have overtaken Pennsylvania's medical cannabis program, study finds

"Adding anxiety to the [cannabis] program may inadvertently signal to patients that cannabis is effective for treating it, despite the lack of evidence, which is concerning,” Coleman Drake, associate professor of health policy and management, said in a statement.

Dr. Samar El Khoudary

In Good Health: Vaccines, menopause, and cardiovascular disease

Epidemiology's Samar El Khoudary discusses cardiovascular disease and the menopausal transition live on NPR's news magazine show 1A.

Dr. Priscilla Castanha

Dengue severity linked to genetic ancestry’s influence on immune response

Priscila Castanha, PhD, assistant professor of infectious diseases and microbiology, and colleagues have linked the extreme variability in severity of the mosquito-borne viral disease dengue to the influence of genetic ancestry on inflammatory responses in the skin.