FDA actions, guidelines, company and field news, and developments shaping the business and practice of psychiatry.
Crisis support lines are currently undergoing testing of artificial intelligence (AI) to assess the quality of their response. These support lines rely on well-trained counselors who are adept…
In a study published in PLOS Medicine that uses data spanning 25 years, the authors observed short sleep duration to be associated with risk of chronic disease and…
Aaron “Tim” Beck, MD, known as the father of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), died on Monday in Philadelphia. He was 100. Beck’s pioneering career in psychoanalysis spanned more…
Conclusions The overall increase in prevalence rates of BZD dispensations during the study period and the unexpectedly high proportion of individuals who were prescribed a BZD on a…
Prescription Stimulant Use, Misuse, and Motivations Approximately 16 million US adults used prescription stimulants in the preceding year (annual average), 5 million misused prescription stimulants without use disorders,…
By JoAnn E. Manson, and Shari S. Bassuk Dietary supplementation is approximately a $30 billion industry in the United States, with more than 90 000 products on the market. In recent national…
By Robin Stevenson, and Donald E. Moore Jr. Medical education is a continuum of 3 parts; undergraduate medical school education, postgraduate training, and continuing medical education (CME). CME differs from the other 2…
Demographics Remain Relatively Unchanged – Middle Aged White Men at Greatest Risk The CDC recently released the most recent data related to suicide for the year 2016. According…
A new study, published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience shows that older people who routinely partake in physical exercise can reverse the signs of aging in…
BACKGROUND Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a treatment that focuses on helping patients to better manage their emotions, and develop skills to cope with problems and negative feelings.…
Writing in the JULY/AUGUST 2016 ISSUE of The Atlantic, Moises Velasquez-Manoff describes a 13-year-old boy named Sasha who was admitted to a hospital with what could only be…
I am a third-generation New Yorker. Until I moved to the minicity of Manhattan Beach, CA., in the south bay of Los Angeles, the only other place I…
May 17, 2016. Los Angeles, CA. My head still throbbing this morning from last night’s late arrival from Atlanta, I sought solace in the quietude of the Science…
Saturday, May 14, 2016. APA Meeting, Atlanta GA. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the third edition of the Practice Guidelines for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults. While…
For anyone who has had the great pleasure of reading Siddhartha Mukherjee’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” expect something very…
By Tyler Nix, Kathryn Funk, Jeffrey S. Reznick, and Erin Zellers A wealth of medical history awaits your exploration in the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) free and…
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…
Role of the FDA in Affordability of Off-Patent Pharmaceuticals Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD; Gerard Anderson, PhD; Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD In recent weeks, the increasing prices of off-patent pharmaceuticals have been the…
What Will Health Care Look like in 20-Years? The Microbiome: Beyond the Gut The Microbiome/Inflammation/Infection Link The Microbiome/Environment Link Genomics: The Revolution We’ve All Been Waiting For Pharmacogenomics…
The Effect of Food on the Absorption of Oral Ziprasidone By Jeffrey J.Miceli, PhD, Paul Glue, MD, PhD, Jeffrey Alderman, PhD, and Keith Wilner, PhD [pdf-embedder url=”https://medworksmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/PB-40-3-07-Ziprasidone.pdf”]
