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Interesting, a psychiatrist has been named the new president-elect of the American Medical Association. Jeremy A. Lazarus, M.D. [Read more] …

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Alzheimer’s Association sponsored a series of advisory round table meetings in 2009 whose purpose was to establish a process for revising diagnostic and research criteria for AD. The recommendation from these advisory …

The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect. This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient …

As of June 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable free of charge to anyone. This includes their current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports published by NAP.…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is proposing changes to the privacy rule which would allow individuals to know who has accessed their health information.

The proposed rule would give people the …

It is estimated that 1 in 10 office visits in primary care are patients presenting with a diagnosis of depression. Researchers from the University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine have developed a new tool that may help clinicians better …

Research examining the impact of shift work was presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii this week. A study evaluating the effects of shift work found that both excessive sleepiness and insomnia associated with shift work …

According to a study by Nestor D. Kapusta, MD, from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues, geographical areas with higher natural lithium concentrations in the drinking water have lower mortality rates from suicide. “We know much about therapeutic…

According to a press release today from the The American Psychiatric Association (APA) a new organizational framework has been proposed for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This restructuring of the DSM’s chapters …