Psychiatry News

• Real Acupuncture Beat Sham for Osteoarthritis Knee Pain Electro-acupuncture resulted in significant improvement in pain and function, compared with sham acupuncture, in a randomized trial of more than 400 adults with knee OA.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• FDA, Researchers Still in the Weeds on Cannabis, CBD, and Gender An FDA symposium underscores the complexities of regulation and research, particularly the lack of data among women, who are frequent users of CBD and cannabis therapies.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• COVID-19: Hand Sanitizer Poisonings Soar, Psych Patients at Risk Cases of poisoning -- intentional and unintentional -- from ingestion of alcohol-based hand sanitizer have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• Medicare Finalizes 2021 Physician Pay Rule With E/M Changes Medicare stuck with a plan to raise payments for specialties that focus on helping patients manage chronic conditions. The increases will be offset by cuts for other fields, drawing protests.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• Air Pollution Linked to Brain Amyloid Pathology Higher levels of air pollution were associated with an increased risk for amyloid-beta pathology in a new study of older adults with cognitive impairment.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• FDA Clears First Drug for Rare Genetic Causes of Severe Obesity Setmelanotide (Imcivree) is indicated for weight management in adults and children as young as 6 years with severe obesity driven by genetic deficits in the melanocortin-4 receptor pathway.
  FDA Approvals, November 30, 2020
• Dutch National Body Affirms Misconduct Findings, Retracts Paper Seeing this behavior recurring and steadily escalating, and seeing other people in the situations we had been in, led us to feel like we could no longer stay silent.
  Retraction Watch, November 30, 2020
• Three's a Crowd: What Caused Two Sisters Too Many? In addition to his real sister, a patient saw and heard from two hallucinatory copies of her. But the real mystery wasn't what the condition was -- but what caused it.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• Two Rare Syndromes, One Patient in Rerun Hell A combination of two unusual syndromes had one patient convinced he had seen every episode of every TV show he watched and had previously met every person he encountered. Find out how his rerun hell ended.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2020
• Three Key Factors Tied to Higher Suicide Risk in BPD Three specific symptoms may help clinicians identify patients with borderline personality disorder at highest risk for suicide.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2020
• Review Shows That Pharma Payments Do Influence Prescribing While many physicians resist the idea that pharma payments influence their prescribing, a new review finds a dose-response relationship between the two.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2020
• Older Adults More Resilient to COVID's Mental Health Impact Older adults, as a group, appear to be withstanding the mental health strains of the COVID-19 pandemic better than all other age groups.
  Medscape Medical News, November 26, 2020
• Higher Dose 'Z-Drugs' Tied to Serious Risks in Dementia Patients Dementia patients prescribed higher doses of "Z-drugs" for sleep disturbances face an increased risk for fractures, falls, and strokes, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020
• Hospitals in the Midwest Strapped for Beds, Staff With the number of COVID-19 inpatients tripling in the past 2 weeks alone, staff at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics say they feel like they've been called to war.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020
• Patient Health Suffers Amid Pandemic Healthcare Shortages Delayed healthcare brought on by the pandemic is taking its toll on patients, according to a recent survey of primary care doctors.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020
• Medical Leaders Launch Grassroots Doctors' Alliance Inaugural town hall introduces a movement to unite doctors behind a single issue: the restoration of the physician–patient relationship.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020
• New Legal Push Aims to Speed Magic Mushrooms to Dying Patients A proposal in Washington state would use right-to-try laws to allow terminally ill patients access to psilocybin — the famed magic mushrooms of America's psychedelic '60s — to ease depression and anxiety.
  Kaiser Health News, November 25, 2020
• USPSTF Continues to Back Behavioral Intervention to Cut CVD Risk Adults with risk factors for cardiovascular should be offered or referred for behavioral counseling to promote a healthy diet and physical activity, the task force recommends.
  Medscape Medical News, November 24, 2020
• Amyloid in the Retina Correlates With Alzheimer's Brain Changes Researchers have identified amyloid in the retina of living patients with cognitive decline and correlated this with brain changes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 24, 2020
• A Call to Make Four Telehealth Provisions Permanent Lawmakers, physicians, and advocates alike have hailed a relaxation of telehealth rules under the COVID-19 emergency declaration, and they'd like things to stay this way.
  Medscape Medical News, November 24, 2020