Psychiatry

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières teams in Port-au-Prince are still under great pressure.

I'm sorry for the hiatus in posting; there always seem to be tons of paperwork this time of year, not to mention the need to get things together for the tax season. With taxes in mind, perhaps it is appropriate to write a post that has to do with the FDA.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières staff work 24 hours a day to treat as many patients injured in the January 12 earthquake as possible, but the needs are huge and there are delays in receiving crucial supplies.

Here is a list of donations given by celebrities to assist in the relief effort of the earthquake that hit Haiti.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations.

Isabelle Jeanson, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières emergency communications officer, has been with the MSF teams in Port-au-Prince since January 15. Here she describes the situation as of January 17.

Here are some general facts about last week's earthquake in Haiti and the aid that has been given by other countries around the world.

Healthcare professionals looking to donate time or money to disaster relief efforts in Haiti will find information on how to do so through these ten organizations.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières have been working together to treat as many of the people who were injured after the 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday afternoon.

Researchers have confirmed that animal studies of behavior are relevant for human behavior.

Patients already have enough to worry about without now having to worry about this.

Couldn't make it to Denver, CO for the Medical Group Management Association 2009 Annual Conference in October? Don't worry, our editors have summarized some of the best presentations from the 2009 MGMA Conference.

These past months, we have been discussing reality - we are not doing well compared to other systems of care; we cannot afford to continue what we are doing--it's a veritable shell game.

The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show recently concluded in Las Vegas; but aside from everything transforming into 3D, there were some other advances and introductions in the world of tech gadgets that are worth mentioning.

"The current health care reform proposal is just a beginning," says Norman Makous, MD. "This legislation addresses health coverage reform. The problem that has not been touched in the current legislation relates to how we provide medical services.

This 10-part series will expose why consumers and doctors are getting the short shrift in all healthcare reform proposals.

MDNG editorial board member Larry Chu, MD will cover the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show live via this page on HCPLive.com. Sign up below for a reminder to come back after 11:00AM (EST) on January 7.

It looks like 2010 is starting off with some changes in healthcare on the horizon – from a number of angles.

Several recent studies have demonstrated that text messaging can produce measurable clinical benefits such as improved glucose test rates and a decrease in acute liver rejection episodes.

Newly published study results show that use of the herbal supplement for several years in patients age 72-96 did not result in a slower rate of cognitive decline than placebo.

I became a blogger 4 months ago, a gig that I find fascinating and refreshing. A place for me to vent, pontificate, and generally hold forth with a jaundiced view of my profession and the industrial Goliaths that support it.

New findings from a team of Canadian researchers show that young brains are affected more by cannabis than originally thought.

In a University of Kentucky study, acetaminophen reduced neural responses to social rejection in brain regions associated with the distress of social pain and the affective component of physical pain (the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula)

We spoke with Dr. Kent Willyard about his experience using Epocrates since it was introduced to healthcare professionals.

One in 110 American 8-year-olds is classified as having an autism spectrum disorder, a 57 percent increase in ASD cases compared to four years earlier. Boys 4.5 times more likely than girls to have ASD.

Sen. Joe Lieberman is officially working to block health care reform in the Congress; he especially desires de-postponing any kind of "health care reform" until the economy has recovered.

The International Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project (IPAP) offers several Web-based algorithms for the systematic treatment of major Axis I psychiatric disorders.

A recent study from the National Institutes of Mental Health shows that a little more than half of children and adolescents in the US diagnosed with a mental disorder have seen a mental health professional.

I watched a student reading her text from a hand-held device not too long ago in class, and wondered how she could read print that it fit such a small screen. Soon I'll find out for myself I've just been informed by a family member that a Nook is coming my way after the holidays.