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State Tipoffs Involving Pennsylvania Newsletter for Monday April 01, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Penn Medicine Study Reveals Inequities in Access to Transformative CAR T Cell Therapy
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Research signals that minority patients with lymphoma may be less likely to receive CAR T cell therapy * * * Patients being treated for B-cell non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) who are part of minority populations may not have equal access to cutting-edge CAR T cell therapies, according to a new analysis led by researchers from the Perelman School   more

UPenn Perelman School of Medicine: Depression in Black People Goes Unnoticed by AI Models Analyzing Language in Social Media Posts
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Penn analysis found that models developed to detect depression using language in Facebook posts did not work when applied to Black people * * * Methods researchers developed to detect possible depression through language in social media posts don't appear to work when applied to posts by Black people on social media, according to a new analysi  more