Penn Medical Communication Research Institute

"Huge financial incentives to turn cancer into a chronic disease" #itmatsymposium

#ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025 #TranslationalScience

Cancer prevention efforts need to start early in life! #cancer #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025

Added sugars represent a huge risk to rising chronic disease among children. #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025

Great presentation by @meganodris at #ITMATsymposium @PennMedicine Great to see a Bantry representative!

Good analogy for mRNA LNP delivery into solid tumors: “We have the death star, we have ships coming to blow up the death star, but there is interference.” #mRNAtherapeutics #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025

Cancer cells are addicted to glucose, and it is this affinity that is often used to diagnose cancers #cancer #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025

The best outcome of human genetics is to try to identify a protective variant. #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025

People who had restricted sugar early in life swap unhealthy sugars for healthy sugars even 50-60 years later #obesity #addedsugar #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025

It’s not just about health! Early-life sugar restrictions linked to better economic outcomes #obesity #addedsugar #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025

There are significant benefits of reducing added sugar early in life for those with high genetic obesity risk #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025 #obesity #addedsugar

More than 60% of people exceed their limits of added sugars #ITMATSymposium #ITMAT2025

Key: Improving Public Understanding of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/improving-publ… by @AnnenbergPenn @PennMCRI "...the percentage of U.S. adults who incorrectly said that VAERS does present vaccine-caused deaths increased significantly..."

In a recent piece for @JAMA_current, @annecappolamd (@PennEndocrine) & @KarthikaCohen (@PennMCRI) discuss evidence-based strategies for advancing effective medical communication tinyurl.com/3my22xsa

Join @PennMCRI on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from 9am - 2pm for "V.I.D.E.O. for Health Communication: Video to Improve Discovery, Effectiveness, and Outcomes," a half-day symposium on videography and video tools to improve health and medical communication med.upenn.edu/pmcri/video-sy…

New to our “most viewed this week in JAMA list” “Strategies to Improve Medical Communication” Cappola & Cohen @KarthikaCohen @PennMCRI jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Read PMCRI's first published paper on Medical Communication Strategies: buff.ly/3tf5izd #medcomm #healthcomm #medicine #communication

Rather than simply anticipating how companies will use large language models, medical providers and researchers have the opportunity to define ethical and appropriate use of LLMs. - #SylvanMCohenRetreat @PennAging @PennMCRI #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #medicine

Large language models propagate race-based medicine - #SylvanMCohenRetreat @PennAging @PennMCRI #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #medicine #artificialintelligence

#ChatGPT faired better and was more empathetic in responding to patient questions than physicians, according to a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine - - #SylvanMCohenRetreat @PennAging @PennMCRI #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #artificialintelligence