Wendy Williams' Dementia; 48% Back 16-Week Abortion Ban; Hospital Sues Quadriplegic
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Former talk show host Wendy Williams, 59, was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia -- the same form of dementia as actor Bruce... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
What We Can Learn From the 2023 Lunar New Year Shootings
(MedPage Today) -- What was supposed to be a time of happiness and optimism for a new beginning was ruptured by tragedy and terror. In late January 2023, two horrific mass shootings targeted Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Can the Ketogenic Diet Treat Mental Illness?
(MedPage Today) -- The ketogenic diet has long been known for its use in treatment-resistant epilepsy, but attention is now turning to its potential benefits in mental illness as well.
Could something as simple as a diet actually improve notoriously... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Acupuncture Tops Sham for Easing PTSD in Combat Veterans
(MedPage Today) -- Acupuncture outperformed "sham" needling in clinical and biological measures of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans, a prospective randomized trial showed.
In the intention-to-treat analysis, there... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
MDMA for PTSD Under FDA Review; GLP-1 for Opioid Cravings; ADHD an Evolutionary Aid?
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA is currently reviewing midomafetamine capsules -- an MDMA-containing therapeutic -- as a potential post-traumatic stress disorder treatment to be used in combination with psychological intervention based on the phase... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Some People Who Attempt Suicide Do Not Meet Criteria for Psychiatric Disorders
(MedPage Today) -- Approximately 20% of people who attempted suicide did not meet criteria for a psychiatric disorder, challenging clinical consensus on who is at risk for suicidal behavior, according to a cross-sectional study.
Using data from... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
A Pacemaker for the Brain Helped a Woman With Crippling Depression
(MedPage Today) -- Emily Hollenbeck lived with a deep, recurring depression she likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She knew the illness could kill her. Both of her parents had taken... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Largest COVID Vax Safety Study; Kratom Deaths Rising; Gov. Threatens Hospital Chain
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An analysis based on 99 million people globally who received COVID-19 vaccines confirmed previously established safety signals for myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Dietary Thiamine Linked With Cognition
(MedPage Today) -- Dietary thiamine (vitamin B1) intake was linked with cognition in older adults, a longitudinal analysis in China suggested.
Over a median follow-up of 5.9 years, cognitive decline risk was minimal at dietary thiamine intake... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Frozen Embryos 'Children' in Ala.; GLP-1s for Opioid Addiction? New E.Coli Outbreak
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Alabama's Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children under state law, and therefore subject to legislation covering the wrongful death of a minor. (The... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 20, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
CDC: More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them
(MedPage Today) -- Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
The CDC called its study, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the largest to look... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
E-Cigs Show Some Benefit as Smoking Cessation Aid in Clinical Trial
(MedPage Today) -- Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) helped people better stick to smoking cessation in the randomized controlled ESTxENDS trial.
Participants smoking at least five tobacco cigarettes a day at baseline showed validated continuous... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Exercise and COVID; Can Smells Help Depression? Car Crashes Into Hospital ED
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Higher prepandemic physical activity levels in adults 45 and older were tied to lower odds of developing and being hospitalized for COVID-19. (JAMA Network Open... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Suicide Risk Highest Right After Depression Hospitalization Discharge
(MedPage Today) -- Patients hospitalized for depression had a very high risk of suicide in the first few days after discharge, a longitudinal Finnish registry study showed.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 hospitalizations for depression from 1996... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Nitazenes Have Entered the Drug Scene. Now What?
(MedPage Today) -- Move over fentanyl! There's a new boogeyman in town. At least that's what you might be hearing from the news. And if you haven't already heard the word "nitazenes" then you can expect to soon.
Nitazenes are a class of synthetic... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
