Saturday, June 15, 2013

Meet the Doctor Big Pharma Can't Shut Up | "Global Possibilities" by Casey Danson

Meet the Doctor Big Pharma Can't Shut Up | "Global Possibilities" 

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For the last 33 years, David Healy, an Irish psychiatrist and professor at Cardiff University School of Medicine in Wales, has written heavily researched university press books and academic journalarticles on various aspects of ...

Race to market the first pill to enhance a woman's libido - Montreal Gazette

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Race to market the first pill to enhance a woman's libido
Montreal Gazette
Brotto helped develop psychiatry's official criteria for the newly named “female sexual interest/arousal disorder.” The diagnosis requires women to experience, for a minimum of six months, three out of six symptoms, which include few or no sexual ...

India's Suicide Problem - Wall Street Journal (blog)

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India's Suicide Problem
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The report's lead author, Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist and joint director of the Centre for GlobalMental Health, says female suicides in India are often linked to relationships, including domestic violence and forced marriage. For men, the major ...

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The Healthiest people on earth: What's their secret? - Washington Times

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Washington Times

The Healthiest people on earth: What's their secret?
Washington Times
The quality of health there is ranked number one in the world according to a decades-long study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. If you live in the U.S. it is a different story, and not one to feel good about. America's health score ...

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and autism spectrum disorder share common ... - EurekAlert (press release)

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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and autism spectrum disorder share common ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) is the official journal of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. Co-authors of the ACER paper, "Low Dose Thyroxine Attenuates Autism ...

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DSM-5 enters the diagnostic fray - Science News

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DSM-5 enters the diagnostic fray
Science News
Controversy always flares when psychiatrists redefine which forms of human suffering will count as real and reimbursable by medical insurance. This time, though, the stakes are raised by competing efforts to classify mental disorders. The World Health ...

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Psychiatry's New diagnostic manual reclassifies misbehavior as ... 

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In psychiatry, the symptom is the illness; in normal medicine, the symptom points to the illness. The fifth edition of the manual, the first such ... 2013 Citizens Commission on Human Rights International . All Rights Reserved.

Telepsychiatry: Convenient option for psychiatrists and psychiatric ... 

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A report published in World Psychiatry said the psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and cognitive behavioral therapies that are provided via telepsychiatry have “sufficient evidence to be considered fully ...

Obama Endorses Sweeping Mental Health Programs Just As ...

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With all due respect to the President, in light of the recent national and international criticism lobbed at the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) diagnosing manual, the DSM-5, which includes the National Institute of...

The Vatican Launches Investigation into Psychiatric Drugging of ... 

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While the upcoming conference will address the issue on an international level, Duncan is intimately aware of the toll psychiatric drugs are taking on children in the U.S. receiving social benefits. “It is the poor children in the ...

Outrage over US psychiatrist who took $1.2m from drug companies ... 

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... to invite a disgraced US academic to give the inaugural lecture for a new research centre. The decision by the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, in central London, Europe's largest psychiatricresearch organisation, to invite Professor Charles Nemeroff, an expert in the treatment of depression, has split the psychiatric profession and been attacked by members of the institute itself. ... Citizens Commission on Human Rights International | Mental Health Watchdog...

APA Press Conference

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APA Press Conference

On June 3, following the  National Conference on Mental Health at the White House, APA hosted a press conference at the National Press Club to discuss some of the pressing issues in mental health care.See the video.

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APA Leaders Join National Mental Health Dialogue

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APA Leaders Join National Mental Health Dialogue
APA President Jeffrey Lieberman, MD and others participate in White House conference
APA Leaders Join National Mental Health Dialogue
APA President Jeffrey Lieberman, MD and others participate in White House conference.

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Are Human Genes Patentable? 

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This commentary reviews the events leading towards the Supreme Court decision anticipated in June 2013 regarding Myriad Genetics patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The Supreme Court appears poised to judge that Myriad's claims reached too far, however, to secure exclusive rights on naturally occurring DNA sequences. If so, those developing molecular diagnostics will have to comport with a new rule for U.S. patent jurisprudence: Yes, complementary DNA (cDNA) can be patented, but not genomic DNA.

Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman Discusses Plans for APA Presidency - YouTube

Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman Discusses Plans for APA Presidency - YouTube

Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman Discusses Plans for APA Presidency - YouTube

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Published on May 18, 2013
Psychiatric News Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., interviews incoming APA President Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D., about his plans for his presidential year and the theme he has selected.

Video by David Hathcox