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Clear Health Costs: Having Insurance Doesn't Always Pay

The case of the $1,700 mammogram

Donepezil Add-On Promising in Completer Analysis

Serotonin modulator slows but doesn't stop cognitive decline in phase II re-analysis.

Agent Orange Plus PTSD Equals Extra Dementia Risk

For Vietnam vets, defoliant exposure "may exacerbate effects of other risk factors."

Purdue Pulls New OxyContin Application, and Questions Follow

FDA disavows previous requirement for study of abuse-deterrent formulation

Subcutaneous Apomorphine Gets Parkinson's Patient Moving Quickly

Most patients respond to injected drug within 20 minutes

Copyright Issues Hinder MMSE Use

Neurologists forced to look for alternate cognitive screening tests

13 Apple Watch Medical Apps Made for Physicians

Even though there are over 3,500 apps that have been customized for the Apple Watch, there are few that health providers can actually utilize for themselves

Cult Members: Aberrant but Are They Insane?

Courts generally don't accept pleas of not guilty by reason of insanity

Abandoned Painkiller Makes a Comeback

Here's how the FDA let a widely abused opioid back on the market.

Injecting Opioid Tied to Blood Clotting Disorder

Are most clinicians aware of this side effect of oxymorphone drug abuse?

What Makes an Opioid Stronger or Weaker Than Morphine?

CDC classification of stronger, weaker, and morphine-equivalent opioids is confusing.

The Medium Is The Message: Second Study Confirms Mediums' Accuracy

A journal publishes another paper reporting that officially certified mediums are accurate.

Hey Doc, How Does My Penis Measure Up? Here's a Graph.

A not particularly useful guide to size.

Tx Adherence High Among Mentally Ill Vets on Methadone

Methadone treatment may have ancillary benefits.

Is That an Unusual Sexual Fantasy?

Sex in the office, fellatio, and menage a trois: Researchers probe sexual fantasies.

Munchausen by Proxy: A Case Study of Abuse

This patient saw doctors in five different states.

Healthcare Serial Killings Down in U.S. but Up Globally

Electronic health records may be a deterrent.

Genetic Factors Tied to Violent Behaviors

Account for up to 10% of extreme violent crime, authors say.

Sexsomnia: A Case Study of a New DSM-5 Diagnosis

Initiating sex while asleep is not only a drug side effect.

Portenoy Opioid Talk Sparks Controversy

Opioid advocate Russell Portenoy's invitation to an upcoming NIH workshop is under fire.

Urgent Care Centers Opening For Mental lllnesses

Mental health urgent care centers, also known as crisis stabilization units, are opening throughout California in response to the shortage of psychiatric beds and the increase in patients with mental illnesses showing up at hospital emergency rooms with nowhere else to go.

'Sleep Drunkenness' Common, But Rarely Unexplained

So-called confusional arousals were reported in the past year by some 15% of respondents in a population-based survey, with nearly all episodes associated with mental disorders or drugs with known sleep effects.

Doctors' Spouses: What's Not to Like?

When it comes to domestic life for physicians, things have changed since an oversexed and gory 1971 film with Gene Hackman called "Doctors' Wives" featured as one of its taglines, "Doctors' wives have everything. Except husbands."

Are Your Patients Using Fake Names?

A case study in the American Journal of Medicine poses a vexing question many healthcare professionals have faced: What should you do when your patients use fraudulent names?

Codpieces a Cover for Syphilis? That's Improbable!

A weekly report from our friends at Improbable Research.

Groups Want Gay Diagnoses Out of ICD-11

A WHO working group has recommended that diagnostic codes referencing homosexuality in ICD-10 be dropped from the forthcoming 11th edition, echoing policies of the leading U.S. psychiatry and psychology societies.

AMA Highlights: VA, Cheerleaders, and Guns

CHICAGO -- Wrapping up a full agenda, the AMA agrees cheerleading is a sport, doctors outside the VA need to pitch in to help care for veterans, and e-cigarettes need to be regulated.

AMA Clamps Down on MOC, But Punts on Gun Regs

CHICAGO -- The AMA鈥檚 House of Delegates drew the line on this year's hot button topic -- maintenance of certification (MOC), saying it should not be mandatory, nor should it be a condition of licensure.

AMA Mulls Gun Violence CME

CHICAGO -- As the AMA's House of Delegates was meeting in a downtown hotel here, 29 local residents were shot and four killed within a 10-mile radius.

Edible Dynamite, Cockney Rhyming Medical Slang: That's Improbable!

A weekly report from our friends at Improbable Research.

How To Tell Fake Neck Pain From Real: The Pain Medicine News Report

A regular update on what鈥檚 new in surgery from our friends at Pain Medicine News.

Murder: Another Ambien Side Effect?

NEW YORK CITY -- Forensic psychiatrists are facing new challenges with murders committed by people under the influence of the sleep drug zolpidem (Ambien) -- not least to persuade the criminal justice system to take their conclusions seriously.

Depot Drug Keeps Schizophrenics Out of Jail

NEW YORK CITY -- Schizophrenia patients who had recently been released from jail were less likely to be rearrested or otherwise fail treatment when they took a depot antipsychotic drug in a randomized trial.

Seroquel XR Helps in Borderline Personality Disorder

NEW YORK CITY -- Patients with borderline personality disorder showed significant improvements when treated with long-acting antipsychotic agent quetiapine fumarate (Seroquel XR).

APA Meeting Highlights Mental Health Biology

NEW YORK CITY -- The biological basis for normal and abnormal mental function is emerging as a dominant theme in psychiatry research, and the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting that starts here Saturday won't be an exception.

Forget Glucometers, Use Voodoo Dolls Instead: That's Improbable!

A weekly report from our friends at Improbable Research.

10 Ways to Safely Push Ketamine in the ED

A doctor recently took me on a Special K trip, and I enjoyed it immensely.

Parent's Death Has Long-Term Effect on Kids' Grades

The death of a mother or father in childhood was associated with lower grades and school failure in adolescence, but the effect was less pronounced when such things as mental health were taken into account, researchers found.

Killing Pain: Xanax Tops Charts

Alprazolam, more popularly known by its brand name -- Xanax--is America's favorite tranquilizer and one that is often used in combination with an opioid.

Lyrica Edges Mirapex for Restless Legs

Patients with restless legs syndrome treated with pregabalin (Lyrica) had as much symptom improvement as those receiving pramipexole (Mirapex) in a large year-long trial, with fewer showing "augmentation."

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