In a recently published article in Nature, Dr. Carl Hart said the collective push to call addiction a disease was driven to help engender empathy in a way that would promote better public policy.
"This study supports our hypothesis that use of a firearm or other violent self-harm methods greatly increases the risk of suicide, especially in the short term,"
People find themselves following an increasing number of rules on what they eat and get stuck in a pattern that can be treated the same way any other eating disorder.
Healthcare is something that has to be ubiquitously available to people. There is cost associated with it and it requires providing some level of access and a way of financing that care.
Out of 79 measures in the Home Health Quality Reporting Program, 15 are good candidates to be removed, an influential group of health care leaders is arguing.
People living with HIV and their loved ones should be aware of the symptoms of HIV-associated dementia, so the appropriate diagnostic investigation and treatment can be initiated as soon as possible.
This inventive "machine learning" approach is being used to identify patterns related to better response to treatment across many branches of medicine including psychiatry.
