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The 170th American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association was held from May 5 to 9 in New York City and attracted approximately 10,000 participants from around the world, including clinicians, academicians, allied health professionals, and others interested in psychiatry. The conference highlighted recent advances in the prevention, detection, […]

Third-line electroconvulsive therapy also cost-effective in base case, and in a range of sensitivity analyses

Receipt of any opioid-related payment from industry in 2014 tied to increase in opioid claims in 2015

Four models were well-calibrated and had higher AUCs than five that overestimated risk

Gilenya is the first multiple sclerosis drug approved for children

Overall, 1.61-fold increase in risk of elevated BP for children with highest versus lowest tertile of PM_2.5

Nao robot Decrease in parent-rated ASD-related symptoms over time with PRT using humanoid robot

International consensus that work experience, vocational training are important to help obtain job

Expanded screening criteria based on risk factors improve detection for minorities

Trend is consistent whether the threshold blood pressure level is reached earlier or later in life

Trend is consistent whether the threshold blood pressure level is reached earlier or later in life

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Post-op pain strongly linked to number of classes of non-opioid analgesics used, remifentanil use

Increased incidence of pulmonary embolism and major blood loss with general anesthesia

Findings based on novel use of a 15-mm diameter treatment beam

Patients with Medicaid or no insurance have lower survival versus those with private coverage

Several key measurements found no differences in position of injury

Non-invasive neuromodulation therapy using a custom stimulation pattern safe for essential tremor

PAs diagnose fewer melanomas in situ, perform more skin biopsies per case of skin cancer diagnosed

At discharge, 92.2 percent of patients received an opioid prescription; nearly 63 percent unused