Practice Management News

SAN FRANCISCO — In this video exclusive from the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, Emily Rubin, LICSW, MSW, MA, discusses a unique support program for families with a child dealing with mental illness.

SAN FRANCISCO — Patients from underrepresented populations were less likely than white patients to be prescribed benzodiazepines by a primary care physician, with disparities persisting regardless of income, according to a poster presented here.

SAN FRANCISCO — The American Psychiatric Association is hosting its annual meeting in San Francisco with the theme “Innovate, collaborate, motivate: Charting the future of mental health.”

Compared with placebo, mifepristone taken daily for 1 week did not improve PTSD in male veterans over long-term follow-up, according to phase 2a data published in JAMA Network Open.

CHICAGO — Patients with tardive dyskinesia reported greater impact on quality of life than health care providers, according to a poster at the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders World Congress.

SAN DIEGO — In this video, Megan Lemay, MD, an associate professor of general internal medicine and addiction medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, highlights several sessions from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

Among people with depression, the most common reasons for hospitalization were physical conditions rather than psychiatric ones, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Most self-harm diagnoses occurred within 24 months of a dementia diagnosis, and vice versa, with a greater risk for self-harm within 6 to 12 months after dementia diagnosis, according to findings published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

President Joe Biden today announced his intention to nominate NCI director Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, FACS, FASCO, as director of the NIH.

The American Psychological Association has outlined new guidelines suggesting adolescents be trained on social media literacy before using those platforms, according to a press release from the organization.