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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Health officials urge caution in reducing opioids for pain patients
Salimah Meghani of the School of Nursing commented on the unintended consequences of state-level crackdowns on opioid prescriptions. Guidelines from the CDC released in 2016 have “led to wide scale inappropriate opioid tapering or simply dumping of complex pain patients,” she said.
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How anti-vaccine sentiment took hold in the United States
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing and Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the rise of the anti-vax movement and how the U.S. might move forward.
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Soul line dancing: Come for the fitness. Stay for the friendships
Terri Lipman of the School of Nursing has been running and studying Dance for Health, a community soul line dancing group. “Yes, it’s dance. Yes, it’s fun, but it is efficient in improving cardiovascular health and providing activity,” she said.
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America is in danger of losing its ‘measles-free’ status
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing spoke about the possible loss of the country’s measles-elimination status, conferred on countries who go without measles cases for at least one year. “It’s a line in the sand,” she said, “to go back to having regularly circulating measles in the country.”
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She faces deportation after shooting her husband. Now Gov. Newsom could pardon her
Kathleen Brown of the School of Nursing said there is an ongoing national effort to have governors consider granting clemency to survivors of domestic violence who injure or kill their abusers.
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Nurses in nursing homes say they can’t finish their work and many feel burned out
Elizabeth White, Linda Aiken, and Matthew McHugh of the School of Nursing led a study of nurse burnout in nursing facilities. “I think that this just kind of raises an alarm,” said White. “Nurses are saying that they just don't have the time and resources to do all the care that needs to be done.”
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Is bias keeping female, minority patients from getting proper care for their pain?
Salimah Meghani of the School of Nursing spoke about physician bias in treating minority patients for pain. “Since pain is subjective and relies on patients’ own testimony,” she said, “disproportionately trusting the self-reports of some groups over others can result in discriminatory care.”
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How to keep teen drivers’ eyes on the road, and their fingers off the keyboard
Kate McDonald of the School of Nursing discussed efforts to reduce teen car crashes, including in-school training. “What we’ve seen to be successful in getting people to use seat belts, or reducing cigarette use, we want to be able to shift that over to reducing distracted driving and changing the social norms around what’s acceptable and what’s not,” she said.
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Nearly half of men hospitalized with physical injuries develop depression or PTSD, study suggests
A new study from the School of Nursing has found that while nearly half of black men treated for injuries in Philadelphia hospitals develop depression or PTSD after being discharged, only 7% of trauma centers screen patients for mental illness. Co-author Therese Richmond said, “we must integrate psychological care into the very essence of trauma care if we are to improve outcomes from serious injuries.”
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Our Nurses: the best-kept secret in Medicine today
Dean Antonia Villarruel of the School of Nursing was highlighted as an “enlightened woman who worked the hardest to give fair recognition to the many women and men of Hispanic origin anxious to make a contribution to the quality of American health care through their yet to be valued profession of nursing.”