Publisher: Philadelphia Inquirer


Looking for Clues for Failed Medical Implants

In the Media Icon

The steel rod of the artificial hip had been slathered in antibiotic cement, an effort to ward off a nasty infection that had gone to the bone. But when it had to be removed, the metal-and-plastic contraption was not disposed of as medical waste. Instead, it now sits on a shelf at Drexel University, alongside… Read More


Ilana Graetz Quoted on Affordable Care

In the Media Icon

This group of adults faces ‘the biggest gap in affordability by far,’ said Ilana Graetz, assistant professor in the department of preventive medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and the study’s lead author.