Yona Lunsky

TL;DR: In this paper , a case series report on the clinical use of metformin in patients with Intellectual and developmental disabilities on antipsychotics was presented, with over 50% of the patients achieving clinically meaningful weight loss of >7%.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined newcomers with intellectual and developmental disabilities compared to other adults with disabilities in Ontario, Canada, and found that newcomers had lower or similar rates of health issues, except for higher rates of psychosis.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors used a population level administrative health data base for the province of British Columbia Canada for 2010-2019 to examine the use of emergency departments by youth with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) compared to a population group of youth without IDD.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors synthesize the literature on current pre-graduate IDD training programs across healthcare professions with the goal of informing the creation of evidence-based curricula.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors aimed to understand the disability-related education and training experiences of perinatal care providers in Ontario, and found that women with disabilities are at increased risk of per-inatal health complications and experience barriers to per-natal care, including unmet physical and communication needs and providers with limited disability knowledge.