A recent study published in Radiology raised concerns about the potential long-term effects of corticosteroid injections on joint degradation when used as treatment for knee osteoarthritis. OrACORe Director Jeffrey N. Katz, MD, MSc, commented on the study and its implications for clinical care in a recent WBUR article. As quoted in the story, Katz said, "So for clinicians and patients…
Angel Reyes spent most of his childhood on the move. He was born in California to parents who immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador and worked as migrant farmworkers, always in pursuit of seasonal crops. Most members of Reyes’s immediate and extended family spoke Spanish, as did he, and few had easy access to health care. If one of…
Angela Chen and Genny Silva parted ways as OrACORe research assistants in June only to be reunited two months later as medical school classmates. (Photo courtesy of Chen.) After two years as colleagues at OrACORe, former research assistants Angela Chen and Genny Silva are now classmates at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. On August 16, just two…