September 16, 2019
Medical Law Review (vol. 26, no. 4, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Problem of Unenforceable Surrogacy Contracts: Can Unjust Enrichment Provide a Solution?” by Craig Purshouse and Kate Bracegirdle “Compensating Injury to Autonomy in English Negligence … Read More
September 12, 2019
(NPR) – Growing problems with addiction and depression have made the country’s shortage of mental health professionals much more acute for rural areas. Geographic isolation exacerbates a vicious cycle. A shortage of doctors means patients can’t get timely care. The … Read More
September 4, 2019
(Managed Care Magazine) – What the man in Room 15 and many other patients with behavioral health problems endured is called—with a whiff of euphemism—psychiatric boarding. When no treatment is available, ED patients with behavioral health needs are often tucked … Read More
September 2, 2019
(BBC) – Millions with conditions like depression, anxiety and schizophrenia struggle to get treatment due to lack of resources and the stigmatisation of mental health problems. Pregnant women are a particularly at-risk group. In Kenya, for example, symptoms of depression … Read More
August 20, 2019
(Science) – People like Moe present a conundrum to doctors but an opportunity for researchers: a group whose health could be transformed by precision psychiatry. Depression is often treated as a single disease, but many researchers agree that it is … Read More
August 13, 2019
(New York Times) – A national panel of health experts recommended on Tuesday that doctors screen all adult patients for illicit drug use, including improper use of prescription medications. But the group, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, stopped … Read More
July 31, 2019
(Scientific American) – In March, the Food and Drug Administration approved esketamine, a drug that produces psychedelic effects, to treat depression—the first psychedelic ever to clear that bar. Meanwhile the FDA has granted “breakthrough therapy” status—a designation that enables fast-tracked … Read More
July 31, 2019
(STAT News) – Biologist Jennifer Erwin of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, however, has no intention of babying her organoids: the world’s first human placentas in a dish that were made from stem cells. Challenging as the half-millimeter-across organoids … Read More
July 30, 2019
(Scientific American) – I was devastated. I didn’t know what to do with how I felt, and too ashamed to let people know. Suicide assessments were a fundamental part of my psychiatric training, but what to do when suicide occurs … Read More
July 29, 2019
(NPR) – Across the country, suicide rates have been on the rise, and that rise has struck the nation’s seniors particularly hard. Of the more than 47,000 suicides that took place in 2017, those 65 and up accounted for more … Read More
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