Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that while he is lifting COVID-19 restrictions on May 31, masks will still be required in Pennsylvania until 70% of adults are vaccinated.What is it going to take to reach that percentage?News 8 asked Lancaster General Health s chief clinical officer. All of us have to learn about the vaccine and educate others. we need to think about our family, our friends, our communities and what we can do to protect the communities, Dr. Michael Ripchinski said.Ripchinski said vaccination efforts are changing. The focus is shifting from mass vaccination sites to physician practices, pharmacies and other pop-up clinics.
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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
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PHILADELPHIA Black adults are more likely than other groups to develop Alzheimer s disease or related disorders but are poorly represented in Alzheimer s disease research, including recent clinical trials. This health disparity illustrates how Black individuals can benefit from advances in the field if they had access.
This week, the Pennsylvania Department of Health s Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) program announced it will award a $3.5 million grant to Penn Medicine researchers and community partners to address the underrepresentation of Black adults in Alzheimer s Disease research. The grant supports the Aging Brain Cohort Dedicated to Diversity (ABCD2) study, a research and training initiative led by David Wolk, MD, a professor of Neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Wolk is also the incoming director of the Alzheimer s Disease Research Center, and co-director of the Penn Memory Center.
The Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center will close about a month earlier than expected, Lancaster County Commissioner Craig Lehman confirmed Tuesday.
When plans for the community vaccination center at the Bon Ton were being finalized in February, Dr. Michael Ripchinski, the chief clinical officer for Lancaster General Health, said the plan was to run the facility through the end of June.
In response to a question from a reporter Tuesday, Lehman said on Twitter My information from this weekend and confirmed again today is that the CVC will operate until the beginning of June.
Brett Marcy, spokesperson for the community vaccination center, said the center will stay open at least through early June, though no official decision has been made to close before the end of that month. He said that some staff hours have been reduced because of lower patient volume, but there has been no staff reduction.
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PHILADELPHIA Art appreciation is considered essential to human experience. While taste in art varies depending on the individual, cognitive neuroscience can provide clues about how viewing art affects our neural systems, and evaluate how these systems inform our valuation of art. For instance, one study shows that viewing art activates motor areas, both in clear representations of movement, like Adam and Eve in Michelangelo s Expulsion from Paradise, and in implied movement through brush strokes, like in Franz Kline s gestural paintings.
Altered neural functioning, like that experienced in patients with Parkinson s disease, changes the way art is both perceived and valued, according to a study published recently in The