Children & Youth

By Molly Candon, PhD and Oluwatoyin Fadeyibi, PharmD, MPH Between 2014 and 2018 in Philadelphia, the number of children with Medicaid who received an antipsychotic prescription fell by nearly 50%, as we described recently in BMC Psychiatry. The reduction was larger for children who were less than 10 years old and for youth enrolled in […]

By Sonam Saxena Efforts to stop Asian-American hate are far from over. On November 30, hundreds of Philadelphians rallied to demand “justice and safety” for Asian-Americans. This comes in response to increasing violence, with the recent example of an 18-year old girl assaulted by four teenagers on the SEPTA in a racially-charged attack. Events like […]

Cross-posted from Penn LDI’s Blog By Megan McCarthy-Alfano Screening tools for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often fail to identify ASD among children from low-income families and racial/ethnic minority groups, particularly when English is not the family’s primary language. A new visually-based tool may reduce these disparities at a pivotal point in children’s development. In Pediatrics, Zuleyha Cidav, David Mandell, and […]

Cross-posted from Penn LDI’s Health Policy$ense Polina Krass, MD As we approach the sixth month of widespread community transmission of COVID-19 in the United States, our focus must shift beyond acute management of disease to the broader effects of this pandemic on health and wellbeing. In particular, it is important that we understand the consequences […]

  Sonam Saxena Adjusting to quarantine looks different for everyone. For individuals on the autism spectrum, the substantial daily changes associated with the pandemic have proven especially challenging and confusing. Many recently-published stories detail the challenges that individuals with autism or individuals caring for them currently face, including this one by STAT, this one by […]