Mental Health
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More evidence ties some antipsychotics to increased breast cancer risk
The relative risk for breast cancer was 62% higher in women who took category 1 antipsychotic medications associated with high prolactin levels....
Original Research
Assessing Outcomes Between Risperidone Microspheres and Paliperidone Palmitate Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics Among Veterans
Veterans receiving risperidone microspheres in a single-site retrospective review study had fewer posttreatment psychiatric hospitalizations and...
News
Is mindfulness key to helping physicians with mental health?
“When we go into our state of deep rest in the meditation practice, which is two to five times more restful than sleep, it heals those stress...
Commentary
The gender pay gap, care economy, and mental health
Females with a lower income compared with their matched male counterparts were more likely to experience depression and generalized anxiety...
Opinion
COVID-19 and the immunocompromised physician
Beset with exhaustion and uncertainty, sacrifice has become a common thread that intrinsically united us against an unrelenting foe.
News
Ten changes that could keep clinicians in the workforce in a pandemic
Doctors make checklist of low-cost action items to start addressing a wave of providers leaving medicine.
News
‘I Can Go Anywhere’: How Service Dogs Help Veterans With PTSD
News
CBT prevents depression in up to 50% of patients with insomnia
The study is unique in that the treatment “is not just reducing depression, it’s preventing depression,” said Dr. Michael R. Irwin, lead author....
News
Social media use associated with depression in adults
New data on adults reflects the link between social media and depression seen in youths.
News
Lithium’s antisuicidal effects questioned
The researchers note that the study did not reach its original recruitment goal.