New Celexa Articles Suggest Psychiatry Professor Helped Hide Negative Side Effects
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... that a renowned European psychiatry professor may have helped Forest Labs, the manufacturer of the drug, in hiding Celexa's dangerous side effects. ...

Human Capital: People on the move, Apr. 14
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Carol Glod, professor of nursing in Northeastern University's Bouvé College of Health Sciences, lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School ...

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Does psychiatry make us mad?
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PSYCHIATRY is widely considered to be a success, able to treat mental illness using drugs to correct chemical imbalances in the brain. ...

Wars' toll on military kids
Washington Post (blog)
... in these families had increased levels of anxiety, the researchers report in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. ...

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UCLA professor joins GM board
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Telles has been a faculty member at the UCLA School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry since 1986 and is director of the school's Neuropsychiatric ...
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She has been a member of the university's psychiatry department since 1986. Telles becomes the 13th member of GM's post-bankruptcy board. ...

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Obama Spurs Harvard Hiring While UnitedHealth Buys
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Funded by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, the study's results were reported in 2002. Avorn has written more than 200 papers on ...

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Are You Taking the Right Antidepressant?
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Dr. Papakostas says most psychiatrists agree that if an SSRI hasn't worked for you, switching to an atypical antidepressant—Wellbutrin, Cymbalta, Remeron, ...
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In the March issue of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education there is a paper entitled "How Residents View Their Clinical Supervision: A Reanalysis of Classic National Survey Data". This paper presents the results of a 1999 survey of 3,604 PGY 2 and PGY 3 residents. (The "PGY" refers to "post-graduate year", in other words how far along the physician is in her training after medical school.) The residents in this survey represented a random sample of 14% percent of all physicians in training, and almost two-thirds of the residents responded to the survey.
The good news is that the majority of the residents felt they had adequate supervision during their training.
Unfortunately, about a quarter of the residents reported that they had seen patients without adequate supervision at least once a week. Five percent said this occurred almost daily. Residents in opththalmology, neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry were more likely to report inadequate supervision, while residents in pathology and dermatology were least likely to experience this.
Poorly supervised residents reported many other problems with their training programs, all of which could affect patient safety. Residents without adequate supervision also reported increased use of alcohol, significant weight change, or use of medications either to stay awake, to help them sleep, or to help them cope with the residency. They were also more likely to report higher ratings of self-assessed stress, sleep deprivation, total weekly work hours, and having worked while in an impaired condition. They were also more likely to report that they personally had been belittled and humiliated, or physically assaulted while working. In spite of all this, there was no correlation between sleep-related medical errors and being named in a malpractice suit.
Recently the Institute of Medicine issued a report with recommendations to reform graduate medical education. The report emphasized the connection between a healthy working (or training) environment and safe patient care. Surprisingly, medical organizations have not widely welcomed this. Certain specialty organizations are concerned that duty hour reform may deprive residents of valuable training experience and that the financial burden of duty hour reform will drive up the cost of health care. What this survey highlights is the fact that failure to adequately supervise residents and to provide humane working conditions creates a risk for the young physician as well as the patient.----- Listen to our latest podcast at mythreeshrinks.com or subscribe to our rss feed. Email us at mythreeshrinks at gmail.

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... are likely to increase among medical interns, according an online report appearing in the June 2010 print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. ...

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A Russian Adoption Gone Bad
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Services range from outpatient counseling, to day treatment programs, to admission to locked child psychiatry units. There is clearly a shortage of child ...

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GM names Calif. medical school professor to board
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DETROIT — A California psychiatry professor has been appointed as the 13th board member at General Motors Co., the automaker said Tuesday. ...
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Driving While Demented
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“We don't have a blood-alcohol level for dementia,” Dr. Gary Kennedy, director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, ...

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Anxiety and Depression in Heart Failure Patients Predict Physical Decline
Medscape
"It's quite important to screen for depression and anxiety and to monitor [patients during treatment]," Dr. Shen told Medscape Psychiatry. ...

Forensic psychiatry will come under the spotlight at two public events in ...
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Dr Partha Gangopadhyay will explain the background to his profession to audiences at Banchory's Woodend Barn on Tuesday (April 13) and Waterstone's Union ...

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Exclusive: Springtime Returns to Islamberg
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A quack practitioner of something called “Quranic psychiatry,” Sheikh Gilani presented himself to the Brooklyn congregation as "the sixth Sultan ul Faqr,” ...

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Analyze This: Dr. Spengler vs. Dr. Miller on the meaning of 'Happiness'
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Well, he's the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at North Shore University Health System, of course. ...
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Panic disorder, depression can be treated over Internet: Swedish research
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"Internet-based CBT is also more cost-effective than group therapy," said Jan Bergstrom, a doctoral student at the Center for Psychiatry Research at KI. ...
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Suicidal Risks Comparable for Different Antidepressant Agents
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"The results of the new study are not surprising," Mark Olfson, MD, MPH, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric ...
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Neurology & Psychiatry: 1000 Questions to Help You Pass the Boards
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Preparing for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) examination is an important step every neurologist in the United States has to go ...