November, 2018

Reducing Firearm Deaths Requires Greater Attention to Suicide Prevention

By drwong
November 20, 2018

American Psychiatric Association Tues Nov 20, 2018             Mental health advocates must work to ensure that suicide is front and center of conversations about gun violence, Jeffrey Swanson, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry at Duke University, wrote in a commentary in Psychiatric Services. Swanson is an expert in the epidemiology of gun...   read more


American Psychiatric Association Speaks Out Against Trump Administration's Efforts to Undercut Women's Preventative Care

By drwong
November 12, 2018

APA Psychiatric News Fri Nov 9, 2018 (Image: iStock/crankyT)           APA joined four other medical specialty organizations on Thursday to urge the Trump administration to reverse actions taken this week that will limit women’s access to contraception. The organizations spoke out just one day after the Trump administration issued a pair of...   read more


Why You Shouldn't Wait to Sign Up for Medicare Part B

By drwong
November 8, 2018

The New York Times By Paula Span Oct 26, 2018           Twenty years ago, George Zeppenfeldt-Cestero left his job as a hospital administrator in New York to open a one-person health care consulting firm. Since he was losing his employee medical coverage, he shopped around and bought a private health insurance...   read more


Spanking Is Ineffective and Harmful to Children, Pediatricians' Group Says

By drwong
November 6, 2018

The New York Times By Christina Caron Nov 5, 2018             Parents should not spank their children, the American Academy of Pediatrics said on Monday in its most strongly worded policy statement warning against the harmful effects of corporal punishment in the home. The group, which represents about 67,000 doctors,...   read more


Gun suicides far outpace gun homicides. Here's why that statistic matters.

By drwong
November 6, 2018

Los Angeles Times By Scott Martelle Nov 1, 2018             About two-thirds of gun deaths in the U.S. each year are suicides, traumatic and desperate acts that often lie at the nexus of mental illness and ready access to a firearm. Yet a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds...   read more