Opioid overdoses falling at centers adhering to guidelines
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. – Mortality related to prescription opioids is still climbing nationwide but not in centers or regions where there has been widespread implementation of guidelines for... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Scant evidence for how to avoid seclusion, restraint in psychiatric patients
Very little evidence exists for how to avoid using seclusion and restraints when de-escalating aggression in psychiatric patients in acute care settings, a recent report from the Agency for... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Law & Medicine: Discovery rule and statute of limitations
Question: In July 2002, a patient in California underwent surgery for a herniated T8-9 disk, but the surgeon instead removed the T6-7 and T7-8 disks. On Sept. 11, 2002, the surgeon discussed... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Alzheimer’s anti-tau drug fails phase III, but posts some benefit in monotherapy subanalysis
TORONTO – A highly anticipated phase III trial of an anti-tau drug has posted negative topline results, conferring no cognitive or functional benefits when given in conjunction with standard-of-care... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Different approaches can combat negative online reviews
Like most physicians, Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith was used to receiving the occasional negative online review about her practice. But a biting post from several years ago was so wrenching that it nearly... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Alzheimer’s anti-tau drug fails, but shows hint of effect when taken alone
TORONTO – A highly anticipated phase III trial of an anti-tau drug has posted negative topline results, conferring no cognitive or functional benefits when given in conjunction with standard-of-care... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Proposed Alzheimer’s funding boost could mean wider research scope
TORONTO – In 2011, President Barack Obama signed into law the <a... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
FDA updates warning label for systemic fluoroquinolones
The Food and Drug Administration has amended the boxed warning on labels for fluoroquinolone antibiotics, taken either orally or by injection, to reflect recent findings of the drugs’ alarming... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Medicare annual wellness visit remains underused
TORONTO – The annual Medicare wellness visit offers patients and their doctors the chance to review a variety of health concerns, and includes a cognitive health checkup. It’s free for patients and... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Gay and bisexual male high schoolers have high injected drug use
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – The first-ever nationally representative survey on sexual identity and behaviors in U.S. male high school students has exposed a high prevalence of illicit injected drug use... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Medicare pays billions for potentially avoidable hospital admissions in dementia patients
TORONTO – In 2013, Medicare spent $2.6 billion on potentially avoidable hospitalizations for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
About half of these hospital visits – each of... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
VIDEO: Loss of function in Rab10 gene cuts Alzheimer’s risk by up to 40%
TORONTO – A rare loss of function in a gene that influences gamma secretase trafficking has been found to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 40%, even in people who are homozygous carriers of... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Madness and guns
“Bang, bang, you’re dead” has been uttered by millions of American children for generations. It is typical of the ordinary, angry, murderous thoughts of childhood; variations of it are universal. We... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Withdrawing risperidone spikes risk for psychotic relapse in hallucinating Alzheimer’s patients
TORONTO – Hallucinations – especially auditory hallucinations – triple the risk that a risperidone-controlled Alzheimer’s patient with psychoses will relapse if the drug is withdrawn.
“I think the... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
CMS seeks input on future of Open Payments program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking physician input on the Open Payments program.
The agency signaled its intent to gather information in its <a... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
