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News, opinions and meeting coverage in geriatrics.

<乌鸦传媒>Researchers: Screen Depressed Dialysis Patients for Suicidality

Depression more prevalent in dialysis population

<乌鸦传媒>Isolation, Food Insecurity Called Out as Health Issues

"We've got to bring loneliness out of the closet"

<乌鸦传媒>High Suicide Rate in Urologic Ca Patients

Four to five times higher in British study

<乌鸦传媒>Initiative Aims to Help Veterans with Mental Illness

VA, AMVETS target those who have 'fallen through the cracks'

<乌鸦传媒>AIBD Poster Roundup: Iron Delivery for IBD; IPAA Readmit

Selections from poster presentations at inflammatory bowel diseases meeting

<乌鸦传媒>Morning Break: Antibiotics Running Out; Teen Sex Interest Drops; Children Drive to OR

Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by the 乌鸦传媒 staff

<乌鸦传媒>Nursing Student Diary: Psych Unit Initiation

Experience differs from preconceived notions

<乌鸦传媒>AMA to Examine Public Option

Feasibility study stops short of endorsement

<乌鸦传媒>Treating Sleep Problems May Ease Depression

PAP therapy tied to reduction in depressive symptoms

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Data Support Ketamine as Depression Therapy

Analysis of FAERS data finds less comorbid depression among pain patients on ketamine

<乌鸦传媒>The Yips, Potential CTE-Depression Link and More

New sports psychology articles raise research questions

<乌鸦传媒>Fluoxetine Flops as Progressive MS Therapy

Trial may have been underpowered to detect a benefit

<乌鸦传媒>Smartphone App May Help Monitor Depression

Patients were amenable to data monitoring by docs

<乌鸦传媒>No Heart Risks With Newer Antidepressants

Cardiac safety of SSRIs affirmed in large observational study

<乌鸦传媒>Wise Buy? Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Cheaper and safer than ECT, the other proven therapy for refractory depression

<乌鸦传媒>Antidepressant Use Tied to Better Diabetes Control

May reflect improved adherence to doctors' advice

<乌鸦传媒>Can Antidepressants Trigger Mania?

SSRIs, venlafaxine associated with mania, but causal relationship uncertain

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Advisory Panel Unmoved by Gepirone Data

Recommends against novel antidepressant; FDA's fairness questioned

<乌鸦传媒>I, Intern: When the Doctor Is on Lexapro

A pediatric intern manages her mental illness.

<乌鸦传媒>Tx Adherence High Among Mentally Ill Vets on Methadone

Methadone treatment may have ancillary benefits.

<乌鸦传媒>Excerpt From 'Being Mortal ... '

Ivan Ilyich isn't as foreign to today's medicine as we imagine.

<乌鸦传媒>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).

<乌鸦传媒>Pain Med Docs More Prone to Burnout

TAMPA -- Physicians who specialize in pain medicine appear to be at greater risk of experiencing professional burnout than physicians in other specialties, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>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.

<乌鸦传媒>Exercise May Allay Anxiety, Depression

SAN DIEGO -- Exercise may have modest benefits as a treatment for patients suffering from anxiety or depression, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>Antidepressants, Lyrica OK Combo in Fibromyalgia

SAN DIEGO -- Patients with fibromyalgia who were taking antidepressants found that their pain was successfully managed with pregabalin (Lyrica), a researcher said here.

<乌鸦传媒>Antidepressants Have No Effect on Bone Loss

The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or tricyclic antidepressants among women in midlife didn't lead to a greater rate of bone loss, a prospective cohort study found.

<乌鸦传媒>New Version of Fibromyalgia Drug OK'd for Depression

The FDA has approved levomilnacipran (Fetzima), a single-enantiomer version of the fibromyalgia drug milnacipran (Savella), for treating major depression, its developers said.

<乌鸦传媒>APA Leaders Defend New Diagnostic Guide

SAN FRANCISCO -- The fifth edition of the "psychiatrist's bible" was officially released here in all its 947-page glory, with its developers offering a spirited rebuttal to their critics.

<乌鸦传媒>Pot Smokers Who Quit Find It Harder to Function

The more severe a person's marijuana withdrawal symptoms when they quit using the drug, the bigger the effect on their functional ability and the more likely they were to start using again, results of an Australian study showed.

<乌鸦传媒>Readers: Who Really Benefits from Spanking?

Although a majority of our readers don't think childhood spanking causes mental illness in adulthood, many of them noted that the topic is more complex than a simple "Yes" and "No" survey.

<乌鸦传媒>DSM-5: What's In, What's Out

PHILADELPHIA -- Reports here provided what may be the last public update on DSM-5, the next edition of American psychiatry's diagnostic guide, before it is formally released in May 2013.

<乌鸦传媒>DSM-5 Panel Tiptoes on Grief, Depression

PHILADELPHIA -- Psychiatrists writing new diagnostic criteria for major depression hope an explanatory note will mollify critics of a proposal to let patients grieving a dead loved one receive a formal diagnosis.

<乌鸦传媒>Most DSM-5 Revisions Pass Field Trials

PHILADELPHIA -- Field trials of proposed new diagnostic criteria for many mental disorders showed that, for the most part, they were at least adequately reliable.

<乌鸦传媒>Antidepressants May Help Cut Seizures

NEW ORLEANS -- Patients with epilepsy who experience more than one seizure a month appear to achieve a reduction in seizure activity when treated with antidepressants, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>ADHD Drug Helpful in Adult Depression

Phase II trial results suggested that a stimulant drug approved to treat attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder may improve cognitive function in adults with major depression, its manufacturer said.

<乌鸦传媒>Use of Psych Drugs Up, Women Biggest Users

One American in five takes psychiatric medication for conditions such as depression and anxiety, and use of the drugs is more common among women, researchers found.

<乌鸦传媒>Linezolid Toxic With Prozac, Other SSRIs, FDA Warns

The FDA has issued an updated statement on the potential for serious central nervous system toxicity when patients taking serotonergic psychiatric drugs are treated with the antibacterial agent linezolid (Zyvox).

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Warns Against High-Dose Citalopram

Citing increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias and a lack of therapeutic benefit associated with high doses of the SSRI citalopram hydrobromide (Celexa), the FDA has reduced the recommended maximum to 40 mg/day.

<乌鸦传媒>Lab Notes: Red Wine Before Radiation and Red Clover for Hair Loss

Red is the color of the day, as components of red wine and red clover lead this week's Lab Notes, but the blues get their turn in the spotlight, too, as depressed people outshine cheerier folks in some elements of decision making.

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