October 21, 2019
In a city where three hundred people — most of them young black males – die every year by gunfire, in which the mortality rate for black babies is twice that of white ones, schools are closing early because of lack of air conditioning, and too many citizens dwell in rodent-infested hellholes, is “personalized medicine” really what we need?
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September 23, 2019
In what other branch of medicine have outcomes gotten worse since the Nineteenth Century?
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August 22, 2019
Is "mental illness" really just a matter of bad luck in the genetic lottery?
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April 30, 2019
Have you heard about the new cure being touted for so-called “treatment resistant” depression? This remedy is 100 percent effective in ending depressive symptoms, for good.
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March 15, 2019
Disturbingly, there were three suicides in the trials, all in the treatment arm. This finding becomes even more ominous in light of the fact that actively suicidal patients were excluded from these trials.
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June 2, 2018
These days, calls to end the stigmatization of mental illness have become routine. And who could argue with that? People with serious mental illness are by definition suffering. Why would we want to add to that by deeming them disgraceful as well?
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April 20, 2018
I never cease to be amazed at the spectacular, planet-sized arrogance of some of this city's dog owners.
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April 4, 2018
“This meta-analysis finally puts to bed the controversy on antidepressants.”
So says Professor Carmine Pariante of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, on the largest ever meta-analysis of the efficacy of antidepressants, published last month in Lancet.
I always thought the whole point of science is that nothing is ever “finally put to bed,” but never mind that for now. What did the study actually find?
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December 25, 2016
Children are exploited as consumers of psychiatric medications as ruthlessly as they once were for their labor.
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November 6, 2016
Since 2003, the suicide rate for male veterans of overseas contingency operations ages 18-24 has risen a staggering 359 percent.
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May 20, 2016
The scariest thing on television these days isn’t “The Walking Dead,” it isn’t “The Hunger,” it isn’t “Sleepy Hollow.” For real bone-chilling terror, try the new Arts & Entertainment series “Fit to Fat to Fit.”
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January 25, 2016
The message was taped to the windshield of a pickup truck parked on a public street:
“This parking space did not magically shovel itself! Be considerate of your neighbors and other people in the neighborhood. DON’T steal parking spaces that people worked for several hours to clear.”
The parking space didn’t magically pave itself, either — the taxpayers, presumably including the owner of the pickup truck, paid for that — but that point seems to have eluded the anonymous author of this angry missive.
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July 28, 2015
Anyone who wants to know why medical costs continue to skyrocket needs only to look at the paper published in the July 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that examined the "cost-effectiveness" of increasing statin use.
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May 28, 2013
Anyone who wants to know why health care costs continue to soar need look no further than the recent recommendation by the American Cancer Society that current and former heavy smokers discuss lung cancer screening with their doctors.
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