Interesting News
- US Suicide Rates Increase
November 3, 2016 | 5:32 pmVery limited access to inpatient care is likely a contributing factor for the increasing US suicide rate. In 2014, suicide was the second-leading cause of death for people aged between 10 and 34 years and the tenth-leading cause of death for all age groups. [More…]
- Crumbling Boundaries Between Patients and Doctors
August 24, 2016 | 10:06 amConnecting with patients has taken on new urgency as physicians are now judged on their ability to make patients happy, via satisfaction surveys like the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS). But as any experienced physician knows, relaxing the professional boundaries that are so necessary to establishing an effective provider-patient relationship can be problematic. [More]
- Bicycling Away Type 2 Diabetes
July 12, 2016 | 3:54 pmA Danish study of 50,000 men and women between 50 and 65 years old found that those who biked routinely were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. And, the more time the participants spent cycling, the lower their risk for type 2 diabetes. [More…]
-
Archive for Interesting News »
- US Suicide Rates Increase
Subscribe to this blog via E-mail
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- July 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
Categories
- Acute repetitive seizures
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adherence
- Adolescents
- Adult immunization
- Advertising
- Alcohol
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Antidepressant medication
- Antipsychotic medication
- Anxiety Disorders
- Apps
- Autism
- Award
- Behavioral problems
- Biomarker
- Bipolar Depression
- Bipolar Disorder
- Brain Injury
- Brain Scan
- Brain waves
- Cardiovascular
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors
- Cell phones
- Chair Summit
- Child & Adolescent
- Chronic illness
- Chronic Pain
- Clinical trial
- Clinical trials
- CME
- CMS
- Cognition
- Cognitive assessment
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive Stimulation
- Communicatin
- CPT Codes
- Creativity
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Delayed diagnosis
- Dementia
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Diagnosis
- Digital medicine
- Direct-to-Consumer
- Disability
- Discrimination
- Distraction
- Domestic violence
- Driving
- Drug Development
- Drug marketing
- Drugs
- DSM-5
- Early diagnosis
- Early intervention
- Education
- EEG
- Electronic Medical Record
- Epidemiology
- Epilepsy
- Excessive sleepiness
- FDA
- First episode psychosis
- Food
- Games
- Gender
- Gene therapy
- Genetics
- Geriatrics
- Guideline
- Happiness
- Headache
- Health Industry
- Heart health
- History
- ICD-10
- Imaging
- Influenza
- Internet
- Internet Addiction
- Job satisfaction
- Love
- Lung Cancer
- Maintenance of Certification
- MCI
- Measurement-based care
- Medical Education
- Medical health
- Medical Specialties
- Memory
- Menopause
- Mental health
- Metabolic screening
- Migraine
- Mixed Depression
- mixed features
- monoclonal antibodies
- Mood
- MRI
- Multiple sclerosis
- Nature
- Negative symptoms
- Neurology
- Neuroscience
- Neurostimulation
- News
- NIMH
- Obesity
- Oncology
- Opioids
- Pain
- Parkinson's Disease
- Patient-centered interview
- PET
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Phobia
- Physical exercise
- Physician salaries
- Physician Sunshine Act
- Physician workloads
- Pneumococcal disease
- Post-partum
- Practice guideline
- Pregnancy
- Primary Care
- Professional boundaries
- Professionalism
- Promises
- Psychiatry
- Psychological interventions
- Psychosis
- PTSD
- Quality health
- Radiology
- Reimbursement
- Relapse
- Remission
- Research
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Risk
- Schizophrenia
- Science
- Screening in Primary Care
- Seizure clusters
- Shared decision making
- Shift work
- Sleep
- Sleep Apnea
- Smartphones
- Smoking cessation
- Social media
- Social Networking
- Social networks
- Special News
- Sports Psychiatry
- Stigma
- Stress
- Stroke
- Substance abuse
- Suicide
- Sunshine Act
- Technology
- Texting
- Texting
- Therapeutic relationship
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- transcutaneous VNS
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Treatment
- Treatment resistant depression
- Uncategorized
- Undertreatment
- Vaccination
- Vagal Nerve Stimulation
- Vascular dementia
- Vascular dementia
- Violence
- Virtual Environments
- Wellness
- Women
- Workplace depression
Category Archives: Child & Adolescent
First Internet-based clinical trial for children with autism
Researchers from UC San Francisco have completed the first Internet-based clinical trial for children with autism, establishing it as a viable and cost effective method of conducting high-quality and rapid clinical trials in this population.[More…]
Attention Deficit Disorder Needs Life-Long Treatment
According to a study published in today’s Archives of General Psychiatry, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) does not disappear as children grow older. Prospective studies of childhood ADHD have not previously extended beyond early adulthood. Researchers followed 271 patients for … Continue reading
The Prevalence of ADHD Revisited
A study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published this week in the Journal of Attention Disorders sought to evaluate the diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Monitoring the prevalence of ADHD is an … Continue reading
Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation for the Treatment of Children With ADHD
Researchers from the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University School of Medicine conducted a meta-analysis of the use of omega-3 fatty acid as a supplement in the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. PubMed searches for randomized placebo-controlled … Continue reading