HHS issues guidance on ransomware attacks
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has issued new guidance to help physicians and their practices combat a ransomware attack.
Ransomware – a type of... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Medicaid expansion linked to lower uninsured rates
The overall uninsured rate for nonelderly adults took a significant drop from 18.8% in 2013 to 14.4% in 2014, with rates by age lower and declines generally larger among states that expanded Medicaid... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Violent experiences increase risk of violent behavior in patients, controls
Exposure to violence significantly increases the chance that a person will commit a violent crime in the subsequent week – whether or not that person has an existing mental illness.
Absolute risk... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Flumazenil effective in refractory hypersomnolence
DENVER – Transdermal or sublingual flumazenil is well worth considering for treatment of carefully selected patients with hypersomnolence refractory to conventional wake-promoting medications, Lynn... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
GERD and sleep disorders often go hand in glove
DENVER – Gastroesophageal reflux disease is fertile soil for medical and psychiatric comorbid conditions, with sleep disorders leading the way, Maurice M. Ohayon, MD, reported at the annual meeting... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Retiring Baby Boomers leave fewer workers to pay for Medicare
The influx of aging Baby Boomers into the ranks of the retired will reduce the ratio of workers available to pay for each Medicare part A beneficiary by 40% from 2000 to 2030, according to the 2016... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Don’t underestimate opioid use in HIV-positive adults
Prescription opioid use in HIV-positive individuals is underestimated, based on data from a 12-week study of medical and nonmedical prescription drug use in HIV patients attending a medical center... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Expert: Screen military spouses for sleep problems
DENVER – Sleep problems and their host of deleterious physical and psychosocial consequences are pervasive among the civilian female spouses of U.S. military service members, according to the first... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Collaborative depression care model offers promise in rural practice
An ob.gyn. practice in rural Washington state has successfully implemented a collaborative care model for depression management that relies on “depression care managers” and a consulting psychiatrist... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Statement warns of drugs causing or exacerbating heart failure
Many commonly used prescription drugs, many OTC agents, and also several complimentary or alternative medications, can either trigger heart failure or exacerbate the disease in patients with existing... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Childhood trauma, cannabis use disorders examined in schizophrenia
New findings suggest childhood trauma and cannabis use disorders have no significant interaction in outcomes for patients with schizophrenia, according to Grégoire Baudin and his associates.
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Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Docs to CMS: MACRA is too complex and should be delayed
The proposed federal regulations to implement the MACRA health care reforms are too complex, too onerous on small and solo practices, lack opportunities for many to participate in alternative payment... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Opioid overdose epidemic now felt in the ICU
SAN FRANCISCO – The opioid overdose crisis in the United States is now plainly evident in intensive care units (ICUs), finds a study of hospitals in 44 states conducted between 2009 and 2015.
During... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
New data propel headache neuromodulation devices toward approval
WASHINGTON – Encouraging data on an external vagal nerve stimulator and a minimally invasive system that targets the sphenopalatine ganglion are propelling the two neuromodulation devices toward... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
New Mexico high court states assisted suicide is not a right
On June 30, New Mexico became the latest state to throw out a challenge to a law banning physician-assisted suicide. In Morris v.... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - July 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
