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“We’re shaping the future of the meat industry — literally,” said Aleph Farms co-founder and CEO Didier Toubia. “Making a patty or a sausage from cells cultured outside the animal is challenging enough, imagine how difficult it is to create a whole-muscle steak.

“Complacency must be replaced with proactive planning, aimed at correcting, not simply reducing, the numbers to make it look somewhat better. In line with the HIQA recommendations of 2012, the aim must be: patients never have to experience care on corridors and inappropriate spaces in EDs. These HIQA recommendations are like a fairy-tale, considering the worsening problems with overcrowding since its report”.

Arrangements from last year, including attempts to expedite home-care and Fair Deal applications, will also be resurrected this year.

Unlike airborne viruses such as influenza, Ebola spreads only through contact with infected bodily fluids. Even so, it is capable of incredible devastation, as West Africa learned in 2014, when, in the largest outbreak to date, more than 28,000 people were infected and upwards of 11,000 died. Despite the relative difficulty of transmission, Ebola still shut down health systems, crushed economies, and fomented fear. With each outbreak, it reveals the vulnerabilities in our infrastructure and our psyches that a more contagious pathogen might one day exploit.

From English Tudor to French Chateau, from Georgian to modern, the one common denominator of these buildings at this time of year is that they are each decked out with twinkling lights outside or inside. These are just a few of the Penn buildings on campus that are aglow for the holiday season.

Kearsley blames Medicare. While her father didn’t qualify for the stretcher that Medicare pays for, she argues he needed professional assistance for trips.

A team of surgeons from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine are the first in the world to use a surgical robot to assist with a bilateral free flap breast reconstruction—a procedure in which tissue is taken from the lower abdomen (similar to a “tummy tuck”)—and used to rebuild the breast. The robot enables surgeons to make a much smaller incision into the abdominal wall muscles, allowing patients to recover and be discharged more quickly and without the use of addictive narcotic painkillers. Suhail Kanchwala, an associate professor of plastic surgery, led the team that performed the procedure, which took place at Pennsylvania Hospital in December. Dr. Kanchwala partnered with Ian Soriano, a clinical assistant professor of surgery who specializes in minimally invasive procedures, to develop the technique.

Dr. Murphey had received a two-year appointment at Penn as a Rockefeller Fellow, and he was appointed an assistant professor of American Civilization in 1956. In 1959, Penn established 20 new Faculty Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the Opening Exercises on September 25 and he was one of the inaugural recipients of the awards, valued at $1,000 each, rendered for outstanding service in undergraduate teaching. He moved up the ranks to a full professorship in 1966. He served as chair of the department for long periods, and for a time edited the journal of the American Studies Association, American Quarterly. Much later he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association. Throughout his time at Penn, he served on several committees and subcommittees for the University Council and Faculty Senate.

Dr. Al Hussein will be the second Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence, which is part of the Perry World House Visiting Fellows program. Like the inaugural Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence, former Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Dr. Al Hussein will become a part of the University community in bespoke programs that put them at the middle of a vibrant interdisciplinary exchange of ideas with Penn scholars and students. These visits typically include public addresses open to the Philadelphia community, smaller panels with Penn experts and policymakers from Washington and around the world, and interactions with undergraduate and graduate students.

Unlike X-rays and CT scans, MRI scans do not involve radiation. They present no risk, apart from triggering certain anxieties or claustrophobia. There are ways to prevent this from happening.

IceCure touts the procedures as non-invasive, safe, and a viable alternative to surgery. The system had specifically been developed to treat fibroadenomas, which are the most common type of benign breast tumors, typically seen in young women aged 15 to 30.

Rail: That’s a great design though. I can see why you kept going back to it, because it seems quite open in a lot of ways. It could be seen as representational…