CDC Just Changed Its Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. Here's What to Know. Guidance covers acute, subacute, and chronic pain and replaces 2016 guidelines Nov 03, 2022
FDA Eases Clozapine REMS Recs; Auvelity Hits Shelves; Mass Murderers & Psychosis News and commentary from the psychiatry world Nov 02, 2022
Allegory Is a Powerful Tool in Medicine Just be sure the message isn't lost on the patient Nov 02, 2022
Mental Health Is a Slippery Slope When It Comes to Physician Well-Being Physicians need better support systems Nov 01, 2022
Early Promise With Fluoxetine for Refractory Nocturnal Enuresis in Children Responses in three-fourths of patients at 4 weeks, declining to about one-third at 12 weeks Nov 01, 2022
Don't Normalize Depression in Older Adults Access to treatment among seniors is critical, just as with any other age group Oct 31, 2022
Online Gender-Affirming Services Can Be Appealing, Though Often Don't Take Insurance Several platforms met certain standards without excess cost to consumer Oct 28, 2022
'Pill Mill' Docs, You May Be in for a Big Scare Two recent Supreme Court cases have major implications for physician practice Oct 27, 2022
Haloperidol for ICU Delirium Misses on Hard Endpoints No difference from placebo on composite outcome in randomized trial Oct 27, 2022
Women With Infertility Face Midlife Depression, Anxiety Risks even higher for women unable to have children at all Oct 26, 2022
ECMO May Come With Mental Health Costs Use of ECMO for critical illness linked to modestly increased risk of new mental health diagnoses Oct 26, 2022
Autistic Young Women at Higher Risk for Anxiety, Depression, Sleep Disorders Nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized as autistic young men, Swedish study showed Oct 26, 2022
Children's Strange Behaviors After Anesthesia Reassuringly Short-Lived Study shows kids were behaving normally 3 months after experiencing emergence delirium Oct 26, 2022
Dementia Strikes One in Ten Americans Over 65 Even more have mild cognitive impairment, new estimates show Oct 24, 2022
Stop the Confusion and Rethink Names of Drug Types, Psychiatric Nurses Say Patients don't get why they're prescribed stimulants for ADHD and anti-psychotics for anxiety Oct 24, 2022
Divide on When to Start Anti-Psychotic LAIs; Restraint Toll; Wilderness Tx Failures A roundup of noteworthy research from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association meeting Oct 24, 2022
Video Games May Not Rot Kids' Brains After All Opposite effect actually seen when it comes to cognition Oct 24, 2022
For Chronic Pain Patients, Consider Green-Tinted Glasses? Mixed results with green light therapy for fibromyalgia Oct 24, 2022
APRNs: Get Your X-Waiver to Help in the Opioid Abuse Public Health Crisis Advanced practice providers are "well positioned to address the issue," say APNA presenters Oct 23, 2022
Implicit Bias Training Betters Psychiatric Care at One Seattle Hospital Less use of restraints for minorities, although higher seclusion rates still an issue Oct 22, 2022
Post-Op Pain Control More Challenging for Cannabis Users Large study builds on the limited literature on cannabis and surgical outcomes Oct 22, 2022
Thumbs Down for Genetic Test for Opioid Use Disorder, FDA Advisors Say False positives, false negatives remain a concern Oct 21, 2022
Hawaii Hospital Cuts Unneeded ED Psych Evals Following Police Encounters Program requiring consults before involuntary evaluations gets a revamp, with positive results Oct 21, 2022
Hospital System Saw Fewer Attacks From Patients With New Crisis Strategies Emergency response teams, de-escalation training likely contributed to dip in violence Oct 21, 2022
Transgender Teens Seldom Abandon Hormones as Young Adults Study found discontinuation of gender-affirming hormones was uncommon Oct 20, 2022
Sleeping 5 Hours or Less Raises Risk of Multiple Chronic Diseases Risk emerged in midlife and persisted at older ages Oct 19, 2022
1 in 7 Community-Living Seniors Die in the Year After Major Surgery Risk fourfold higher for those with probable dementia Oct 19, 2022
What's With the National Adderall Shortage? Manufacturers must meet higher demands, and also face DEA and production problems Oct 19, 2022
It's Time to Retire BMI as a Clinical Metric An undue focus on weight can lead to patient distrust and delayed care Oct 19, 2022
Traumatic Experiences Tied to Lower Estrogen Levels in Menopause Less sleep also impacted sex hormones in postmenopausal women Oct 17, 2022
Gender-Affirming Chest Surgeries Increase by Nearly 5x in Teens Researchers compared number of annual surgeries in 2016 to 2019 Oct 17, 2022
Dementia Signs Emerge Up to 9 Years Before Diagnoses Cognitive, functional changes spotted in pre-Alzheimer's patients and others Oct 15, 2022
Allergy Meds May Make Drug Overdoses More Dangerous, CDC Says About 15% of overdose deaths included antihistamines mixed with other drugs Oct 13, 2022
Does Diet Matter? Study Questions Links Between Diet and Dementia Diet combined with other risk-reduction strategies may show different results Oct 12, 2022
Teen Suicide Trends; Kanye West's Bipolar Disorder; Schizophrenia and Dementia Risk News and commentary from the psychiatry world Oct 12, 2022
Teen Suicides Jump 29% Over the Past Decade, Report Finds Nevada saw the biggest increase; American Indian/Alaska Native teens most vulnerable overall Oct 12, 2022
Adding Antibiotic to Brain Stim Bolstered Effects in Major Depression Though patients saw benefits with D-cycloserine, more research is needed, researchers say Oct 12, 2022
The Heavy Psychological Toll of the War in Ukraine Mental health support is the need of the hour Oct 09, 2022
Unexplained Bleeding Linked to Rat Poison in Synthetic Cannabinoids 52 cases were ultimately identified, and four patients died Oct 06, 2022
AAO Roundup: Glaucoma Subtype Linked to Alzheimer's Disease Risk Other studies report fewer reoperations with combo eye surgery and vision risk with shingles Oct 06, 2022
