Psychiatry

An 18% spike seen in 2003-2004 in the number of teen suicides might reflect an emerging trend, not just a one-time fluke.

Chronic conditions are leading causes of illness, disability, and death among Medicare beneficiaries and account for a disproportionate share of healthcare expenditures.

Health literacy requires more than just knowing how to read. It involves a number of additional skills, including listening, analyzing, and decisionmaking.

Next-generation decision support technology is designed to match the way a physician thinks about signs, symptoms, and diagnoses, facilitating rapid diff erential diagnosis generation.

Simon Cherry, professor and chair of biomedical engineering at UC Davis, discusses the combination of PET and MRI in a single scanner, which his lab built for laboratory mice studies, particularly in cancer research.

The advantages of using wireless body sensors in healthcare are obvious: more autonomy for the patient, an improved quality of life, and better signal quality due to lack of bulky cables.

Only 25% or so of the 15 million children in the US who are diagnosed with a mental disorder receive appropriate treatment based on scientific evidence.

Better patient education may help alleviate the rising cost of healthcare and lead to better health outcomes, because it helps patients make more informed decisions about their healthcare.

Cell phone applications and other high-tech tools are changing the way physicians approach patient education.

A recently launched study will examine the effects of obesity and explore methods for teaching participants about prevention.

If the results of a Tufts University rat study hold true for humans, the chances are good that obesity will be treated as an addictive behavior in the future.

Although studies show early intervention to be effective in reducing psychotic symptoms in patients with first-episode psychosis, the benefits aren’t sustainable.

As the causes and links to autism continue to baffle, researchers tirelessly work at finding any new information that could potentially lead to a better understanding of the condition. Evidence that genetics play a large role in autism continues to surface.

Boris Rubinsky, professor of bioengineering and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, explains his research using cell phone technology to reproduce medical imaging, which can then be transferred to a physician through his or her cell phone.

In June 2008, I participated in an online interview with Ed Silverman, author of the popular pharmaceutical industry blog Pharmalot.

Many of our patients are using the Internet to look up their diagnoses and medications as soon as they get home from our offices.

A year later, as we read and watch the breathless coverage devoted to recent moves by Google, Microsoft, and Apple, we are left asking "is healthcare IT worth the hype?"

Medicine is constantly changing, with new innovations fueled by basic science discoveries.

The AAPS said that many physicians have decided not to use EHRs because they fear the data will be used to control what they do and how they do it.

Robert Kravitz, MD, Medical Director, St. Francis Pain Center, Indianapolis IN, psychiatrist and pain expert, discusses chronic pain management.

According to an article in USA Today, researchers anticipate that approximately 14 million (18%) of the 79 million baby boomers “can expect to develop Alzheimer’s."

The Internet has evolved beyond its origins as a collection of interconnected websites with static information.

Sleep in adults can be significantly improved with a six-week cognitive behavioral intervention for insomnia delivered via the Internet.

Q&A: Dialogs in Bipolar Depression with Linda Carter, Gary Kabinoff, and Peter Knoblich.

Depression is by far the predominate mood state in bipolar disorder, encompassing 32-50% of all patients.

When evaluating patients with depression, it is key that physicians expand their thinking and mindset to consider possible diagnoses beyond unipolar depression.

Although primary care physicians may see patients with bipolar spectrum symptoms on a daily basis, they may have significant concerns about treating those patients.

I thought I would use my column this month to discuss RevolutionHealth.com. After spending some time surfi ng around the site, I've concluded that it just might be the most over-hyped health information website ever launched. It's an all-around healthcare information portal, with a few interesting features, but there's nothing revolutionary at all.

Lawrence Catchpole, CEO, Zenda Technologies, explains a new scanning technology for assessing and monitoring mild cognitive impairment, Zenda's ImTECH platform for rapid assessment and DETECT test.