For Immediate Release March 7, 2016. Los Angeles CA Contact: James La Rossa Jr., 310.374.1300 2016 Issues, Set for Index Medicus, are In Press Psychopharmacology Bulletin — reactivated by the National Library of Medicine — has finalized a series of agreements with the largest repositories of acquisitions medical libraries. Bulletin [...]
In the summer of 1997, I was months away from launching the first consumer magazine about mental illness. My company had acquired a state and federal trademark for the title, Mental Fitness (The Science of Mental Wellness). I had done a long interview with the veteran 60 Minutes journalist, Mike [...]
Other than the obvious onset of the mental disorder itself, postpartum depression is one of those illnesses that is hard to predict, and according to published records, may be even harder to insure against. After a government panel recommended that pregnant women be screened for depression, life and disability insurance [...]
Proton Pump Inhibitor's (or P.P.I.s), widely available by prescription or over the counter brands like Prevacid, Nexium, and Prilosec, have been tied to Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias, according to German researchers writing in JAMA Neurology. The researchers looked for five years at 73,679 men and women over 75 who were [...]
Michael E. Thase, Charles B. Nemeroff and Philip T. Ninan round out the group.
By Catherine Lombard, Cheryce Harrison, Samantha Kozica, Sophia Zoungas, Sanjeeva Ranasinha, and Helena Teede Abstract Background Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in both developed and developing countries. Even modest weight gain increases the risk for chronic illness, yet evidence-based interventions to prevent weight gain are rare. This trial will determine if a simple low-intensity intervention [...]
From The New York Times, Thursday, January 28. Scientists reported on Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward understanding the cause of schizophrenia, in a landmark study that provides the first rigorously tested insight into the biology behind any common psychiatric disorder. More than two million Americans have [...]
According to Richard A. Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at the Weill Cornell Medical College, writing in Sunday's New York Times, "Who among us hasn’t wanted to let go of anxiety or forget about fear?" Phobias, panic attacks and disorders like post-traumatic stress are extremely [...]
In a clear signal that medicine and politics make strange bedfellows, a crucial Senate committee on Tuesday, which unanimously approved Dr. Robert M. Califf, a cardiologist and clinical trial expert from Duke University as the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is unlikely to happen soon, because Senator Lisa Murkowski [...]
For Immediate Release December 31, 2015. Los Angeles CA Contact: James La Rossa Jr., 310.374.1300 MedWorks Media Inc., established in 1994 as one of the largest publishers of journals and educational medical projects about psychiatric medicine, was reconfigured for a 2016 launch as a cutting-edge digital portal and publisher — [...]