Setting up your own RSS feed
Last month, I discussed RSS news feeds as a useful tool for keeping abreast of frequently updated information, such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video, without having to visit a... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Low-field magnetic stimulation fails to improve refractory depression
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – A small proof-of-concept study of low-field magnetic stimulation to augment medical treatment for 85 individuals with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder failed to meet... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
8 steps to avoid legal risks from your practice website
CHICAGO – An inadequately designed medical practice website can pose serious legal dangers, said Michael J. Sacopulos, a... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Unanimous vote sends mental health reform to House floor
The much contested Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act is at last headed for the House floor. The bipartisan bill was passed 53-0 by members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
“The... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Increased demand drives up psychiatrists’ starting salaries
The average starting salary for psychiatrists was up 11% over the last year, with growing physician shortages leading to increased demand, according to physician recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins.... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Exercise improves sleep and may improve cognitive/physical function in MS
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – A pair of studies by the same research team has clarified how poor sleep worsens cognitive and physical function in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and how poor sleep can... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Long-acting opioids increase cardiovascular deaths in noncancer patients
Long-acting opioids increased the risk of all-cause mortality in patients with chronic noncancer pain, based on 22,912 new episodes of long-acting opioid prescription and an equal number of control... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Transgender youth can successfully transition to adulthood
ORLANDO – In the case of transgender youth and adults – those with what is now called gender dysphoria – physicians are faced with treating individuals who generally have no physical disease or... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Recurrent DKA episodes found to trigger cognitive changes
NEW ORLEANS – Recurrent episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) resulted in altered brain metabolite concentration, as well as differences in mental processing speed, compared with healthy controls,... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
New fibromyalgia recommendations have firmer evidence base
LONDON – The new EULAR recommendations for fibromyalgia incorporate a decade’s worth of new evidence collected since the last edition appeared in 2008.
Although the 2016 recommendations do not... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Prepare early for peer review hearings to avoid negative outcomes
CHICAGO – Being targeted for a peer review can be unnerving for physicians, but proper preparation can help doctors smoothly navigate the process and increase their chances for a favorable... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
High school students’ health risk behaviors mixed, CDC says
Data from the latest National Youth Risk Behavior Survey show that although many harmful behaviors are declining among high school students across the United States, work still needs to be done to... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Enlist appropriate psychological consults for gender dysphoria
ORLANDO – Old notions about transgender and transsexual individuals are changing, driven by the emergence of transgender identity, scientific evidence, political activism in those communities, and... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Over 20% of Americans skipped needed mental health care
(Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
A new sort of consultant: Advising doctors, patients on California’s aid-in-dying law
BERKELEY, Calif. – Few people have the unusual set of professional experiences that Dr. Lonny Shavelson does. He worked as an emergency room physician in Berkeley for years – while also working as a... (Source: Clinical Psychiatry News)
Source: Clinical Psychiatry News - June 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
