FDA takes more steps to keep kids off tobacco products
New regulations from the Food and Drug Administration ban the sale of all tobacco products – including e-cigarettes – to minors.
The final <a... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Secrets of success in a MACRA-based world
WASHINGTON – Are you ready for the way you are paid for seeing patients to change, and not just change, but change dramatically?
The value-based care system of reimbursement for primary care... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Value-based care 101
WASHINGTON – Feel free to continue operating under a fee-for-service system, but according to Neil Kirschner, Ph.D., the senior associate for regulatory and insurer affairs at the American College of... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
FDA panels recommend expanding REMS, requiring prescriber education, for ER/LA opioids
Two Food and Drug Administration advisory committees have unanimously agreed that the current risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for extended-release and long-acting opioid analgesic... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Aripiprazole linked to rare but serious compulsion problems
Rare but serious instances of impulse control problems have been reported in people taking the antipsychotic drug aripiprazole, according to a May 3 press release from the Food and Drug... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Consider behavior therapy first for young children with ADHD
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging pediatricians treating children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to recommend behavior therapy before prescribing any... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
FDA approves changing brand name of Brintellix to Trintellix
To avoid confusion with another drug, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a name change request for the antidepressant Brintellix (vortioxetine), according to a press release.
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Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
FDA approves first drug to treat hallucinations in Parkinson’s psychosis
Pimavanserin on April 29 became the first drug to receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the indication of hallucinations and delusions associated with psychosis in Parkinson’s... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
APA guideline stresses judicious antipsychotics in dementia
Antipsychotics should be used judiciously when patients with dementia develop agitation or psychosis, according to the American Psychiatric Association’s first practice guideline on this issue... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - May 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Despite advances, Alzheimer’s remains a tricky diagnosis
BETHESDA, MD. – Alzheimer’s disease is not a one-size-fits-all diagnosis.
As part of a large family of related dementias, it presents some diagnostic conundrums that often make for quite a tricky... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - April 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Supreme Court case could expand false claims liability
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could expand physicians’ liability under the False Claims Act (FCA).
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Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - April 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Rosacea patients have higher risk of dementia
Patients with rosacea have a higher risk of being diagnosed with certain forms of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to Dr. Alexander Egeberg and his associates.
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Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - April 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
HHS guidance facilitates Medicaid access for former inmates
New guidance from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department clarifies that individuals on parole, probation, or in-home confinement are not considered inmates and therefore are eligible for... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - April 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
New suicide data: Reason to panic or ponder?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new data on suicide have resulted in much interest and concern. Both are warranted, but panic is not.
The CDC’s National Center for Health... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - April 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
CMS promises streamlined, flexible program to replace meaningful use
Meaningful use would get a new name and an emphasis on flexibility under a proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“We’re proposing today to replace meaningful use in the... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - April 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
