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Patients who stop infliximab 12 months after they started are at higher risk of relapse if those patients earlier had ulcerative colitis.

Positive test results from the initial step of colorectal screening may need a quicker follow-up colonoscopy than many people are getting.

When it comes to funding, research, and preventing illness mental health and physical health tend be seen as separate arenas.The CDC's top doc Tom Frieden vowed to change that.

As with many psychiatric conditions suicide is a concern for patients with borderline personality disorder. What doctors can do to prevent their patients from this can make the difference between life and death.

For people who may not know what borderline personality disorder is or have questions about what can be done to help these patients a new effort is being made to raise awareness about this difficult condition.

Under existing federal law, there is no legal way the feds can regulate marijuana sales--or let the states do it. That could have dire consequences, a legal expert tells the APA.

The US Marine Corp's top officer, Commandant Gen. Robert Neller asked members of the American Psychiatrist Association for insights and help in halting suicides among corps members.

The Nazi criminals' crimes against humanity continue to stun psychiatrists. Was there a neurological defect involved?

Electroconvulsive therapy could be an effective tool in reducing veterans' severe depression and suicides, a panel said. Kitty Dukakis, the wife of former Gov. Michael Dukakis and an advocate for ECT, was a panelist,

Talking about mental health conditions may be easier than it was a few years ago but the stigma still exists in many parts of the population. The National Alliance on Mental Illness is working to overcome that issue on a variety of fronts.

With a wide range of mental health issues needing advancements in treatment there is constant work being done to find new medications that can help the various patient populations.

Allergan has made a name for itself in the treatment of many neurological and mental health conditions and continues to grow its portfolio. One of its newest offerings is cariprazine which they hope will be a powerful tool in the antipsychotic area.

Can any outpatient mental health program prevent all suicides in the patients it serves? An Arizona team reports success in a 90-day study.

What can a successful partnership at home mean for preventing alcohol abuse? According to one study that balance can mean the added ability to prevent a condition which can otherwise have a dramatic affect on their lives.

When wounded service members come home from war they have many areas of care that need to be addressed. Studies have shown that sexual health is an important part of the overall treatment picture.

After warmly welcoming its members to her home town, Atlanta, GA, former First Lady Rosalyn Carter brought the American Psychiatric Society up to date on her foundation's mental health advocacy successes.

Modern medicine focuses too much on extending life and too little on making sure that's the kind of life patients want. Using conversational skills like those of psychiatrists, that can change for the better.

French researchers examined several factors that could contribute to an association between antiepileptic drug use and risk of suicide attempt.

Do patients diagnosed with anxiety disorder experience a greater burden of metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hyperlipidemia?

Although Lyme disease typically impacts the skin, joints, and heart, it can also cause a variety of neurologic and psychiatric complications for which there are no current treatment guidelines.

Veterans with PTSD did better when they adopted dogs, a Texas study found.

Until recently anorexia nervosa was thought to be a problem for females only. That thinking has changed and specialists are now looking at ways to treat eating disorders in adolescent boys and men.

Buprenorphine made treatment for addiction to opioids available in a daily pill. Trial results to be presented in Atlanta, GA show an implanted form of the drug could make treatment even more convenient.

Researchers report that a complex multimodal program delivered at a dedicated facility and with a primary therapeutic focus on trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy appears to significantly reduce Child Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Scale (CPPS) scores over 4 weeks.

Study results indicate that electronic health records (EHRs) appear to inadequately capture mental health diagnoses, office visits, hospitalizations, specialty care, and medications, with this missing clinical information raising concerns about medical errors and research integrity.

A group of researchers has proposed an evaluation framework to assist clinicians in evaluating the utility, safety, and efficacy of smartphone apps for psychiatry.

The findings of a systematic meta-review of 13 literature reviews examining 185 distinct studies indicates that the evidence regarding yoga as an intervention for the effects of trauma and the mental health symptoms and illnesses that frequently accompany trauma is encouraging.

Yutao Liu, MD, PhD, Georgia Regents University, discussed how he and his team can potentially target genes to either reduce glaucoma or provide neuroprotection specifically for the mitochondria in the retina.

A patch that uses patients’ own stem cells to protect them from vision loss will soon begin phase 1 trials.

Results from the ATLAS study show that patients with wet AMD treated with Eylea experienced visual and anatomic improvements after 1 year that were sustained after 2 years.