Annenberg study explores how media coverage underemphasizes chronic illnesses as cause of death

While chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer are the leading cause of death in the United States, they are only sparsely covered by news outlets, which tend to focus on more sensational risks such as homicide and terrorism. 

Penn researchers micro-engineer chip that models human bone marrow

Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine, along with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, have developed a bioengineered chip that replicates the environment of human bone marrow for cancer treatment research.