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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 […]
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 […]
Molly Candon Health care workers are center stage in this once-in-a-lifetime crisis, and their exposure to COVID-19 is more than just physical. The challenges that come with delivering care to high-risk and highly contagious patients cannot be understated. It’s difficult to track, but CDC reports suggest that upwards of 20% of COVID-19 reported cases are […]
Molly Candon, David Mandell, and Rebecca Stewart Opioid use disorder continues to afflict communities near and far. A major obstacle facing patients and their families is access to medication therapy, and one reason is the requirement that physicians and some advanced practitioners secure a federal waiver, undergo training, and have a patient cap for prescribing buprenorphine. Why do […]