Mental Health
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Rate of suicide is higher in people with neurologic disorders
Huntington’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were associated with the largest excess adjusted incidence rate ratios of suicide mortality...
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CDC: Opioid prescribing and use rates down since 2010
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Risk of Suicide in the Year After an ED Visit
Emergency department physicians should be aware that patients who present with self-harm using high-lethality methods are at increased risk for...
Conference Coverage
Opioid deaths boost donor heart supply
SNOWMASS, COLO. – The size of the donor heart pool for transplantation, flat for decades, is growing significantly.
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Suicide rate higher than average for female clinicians
Male health care practitioners are less likely than all working-age men to die by suicide.
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Race, ethnicity may influence outcomes after supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage
In a cohort of young adults, the percentage of patients with a poor functional outcome after 3 months was 52% among white patients, 35% among...
Commentary
Elizabeth Wurtzel helped clear the air on stigma
“Prozac Nation” author’s honesty was good for psychiatry, Dr. Robert T. London writes.
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Cognitive screening of older physicians: What’s fair?
A new report leads to questions about how to standardize the process rather than have a piecemeal institutional approach and whether to focus less...
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Breaking through a ‘cloud of silence’
“When you look after a doctor, you have to be a little suspicious that they may be covering up their suicidality,” said Dr. Michael F. Myers.
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Your colleague appears depressed. Now what?
Experts share tips on how to react when fellow physicians appear depressed or suicidal.