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PHILADELPHIA Alcohol-impaired driving kills 29 people a day and costs $121 billion a year in the U.S. After years of progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, efforts began to stall in 2009, and fatalities started increasing again in 2015. With several studies demonstrating that drinkers cannot accurately estimate their own blood alcohol concentration (BAC), handheld alcohol breath testing devices, also known as breathalyzers, allow people to measure their own breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) to determine if they are below the legal limit of .08% before attempting to drive.
The latest generation of personal alcohol breath testing devices pair with smartphones. While some of these devices were found to be relatively accurate, others may mislead users into thinking that they are fit to drive, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Health Matters: Music Therapy Strikes the Right Note
By Andrew Freedman, MTBC
Whether you prefer silly love songs or like that old time rock ‘n’ roll, music has been proven to – in the words of singer Bob Seger – soothe the soul.
In fact, music has such a powerful effect on mental health and well-being that it can help many people, from children to older adults, cope with mental health problems, including anxiety and depression.
Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health offers group music therapy sessions as part of its inpatient and intensive outpatient programs for children, adolescents, adults and seniors.
PHILADELPHIA A gene called
GAS2 plays a key role in normal hearing, and its absence causes severe hearing loss, according to a study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Developmental Cell, discovered that the protein encoded by
GAS2 is crucial for maintaining the structural stiffness of support cells in the inner ear that normally help amplify incoming sound waves. They showed that inner ear support cells lacking functional
GAS2 lose their amplifier abilities, causing severe hearing impairment in mice. The researchers also identified people who have
GAS2 mutations and severe hearing loss.
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Princeton Health Community Wellness: Virtual Classes in May May 06, 2021
Penn Medicine Princeton Health will be holding the following classes virtually where you can participate from the comfort and safety of your home.
Registered participants will receive a link to view the class and can access the live stream via computer or mobile device.
Below is a list of our latest virtual classes.
Please register online or leave a message at 1.888.897.8979. A Community Wellness staff member will return your call during regular business hours.
Princeton Health Community Wellness: Virtual Classes in May
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PHILADELPHIA When evaluating the opioid crisis, research reveals that external factors - such as the volume of pre-filled syringes, or a default number of opioid tablets that could easily be ordered at discharge for the patient - can shift prescribing and compel emergency department (ED) physicians to administer or prescribe greater quantities of opioids. A new study published in the
Journal of Medical Toxicology reveals that opioid prescribing behavior can also be decreased by external factors, such as a supply shortage.
Led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers evaluated pharmacy data from the electronic medical records (EMR) collected before, during, and after a period of parenteral opioid shortage across two large urban academic emergency departments - the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. In this case, the shortage was of parenteral morphine and hydromorphone, as a