MORE ON: psychiatry

Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Top antipsychotic prescribers also drug promoters

December 6, 2010, 12:05 AM
Three San Diego County doctors who accepted five-figure payments from pharmaceutical companies have emerged on a list of the state’s top prescribers of antipsychotic drugs to the needy, according to state records. Officials from Medi-Cal, the state program for the poor and disabled,... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Sleep disorders multiply as questions about drugs remain

June 2, 2010, 12:04 AM
At least ten new sleep disorder names and definitions are expected to be in the DSM-5, the newest manual guiding psychiatrists, proposed text for the new tome suggests. Medpage Today, a news source that doubles as a continuing education guide for physicians, reports that some of the new terms... + read more
sigmund freud, psychiatry, diagnoses
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Revised psychiatry tome may recognize new disorders

February 11, 2010, 12:04 AM
It’s a controversial and fascinating exercise: Every few years, psychiatrists decide which diagnoses to scrap and which conditions should be recognized as new disorders. Sigmund Freud Sixteen years have passed since doctors last took a hard look at who was coming into their offices... + read more
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