Leo Sher, M.D. A RAND Corporation report, “Comparing quality of care in Veterans Affairs and non-Veterans Affairs settings” has been published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (1). The Veterans Health Administration in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States. The goal of the study […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Examination of the indirect effects of combat exposure on suicidal behavior in veterans” has been published in the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). The authors examined whether combat exposure has a significant indirect effect on suicidal behavior among Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans through its effects on PTSD-depressive symptomatology. To be eligible […]
Leo Sher, M.D. On behalf of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Task Force on Men’s Mental Health I am pleased to congratulate Professor Shih-Ku Lin, a Member of the Task Force, an esteemed colleague and a great friend, on becoming a Vice-President of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP). Dr. Shih-Ku […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A poster entitled, “Homicides of physicians and mental health workers” was presented at the 6th Biennual Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference that was held in Florence, Italy on April 4-8, 2018. The author conducted a systematic search for information on homicides of mental health workers between 1981 and 2014, and of physicians […]
Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. Since Thomas Starzl performed the first successful hepatic transplant in 1967, these transplants have become the intervention of last resort for a wide range of patients whose liver failure would previously have led to certain deaths. Since 1988, when the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) began reporting data, more […]
Leo Sher, M.D. About a week ago, the U.S. News & World Report published data on the Medical School acceptance rates (1). In the U.S., the average Medical School acceptance rate for the 2017-2018 school year was 7 percent. This is based on the data submitted by 120 ranked medical schools to the U.S. News […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Psychiatric researchers from Maryland examined determinants of natural cause mortality in individuals with serious mental illness (1). Their research report, “Natural cause mortality in persons with serious mental illness” has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica online ahead of print (1). In all, 789 individuals with schizophrenia and 498 individuals with bipolar […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The new 2018-2019 U.S. News & World Report “Best Medical Schools” rankings were released on March 20, 2018 (1). The new rankings were published in the 2018 edition of U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City ranked No. 18 […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Patterns and predictors of conversion to bipolar disorder in 91 587 individuals diagnosed with unipolar depression” has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica online ahead of print (1). In this study, researchers from Aarhus, Denmark, examined predictors of diagnostic conversion from unipolar depression to bipolar disorder. In all, 91,587 […]
Mitesh Patel, M.D., Henry Duong, M.D., Kavitha Srinivasan, M.D., Steven Lippmann, M.D. Introduction Suicide is a frequent cause of death, especially among males and military veterans. Kentucky has a higher suicide rate, at 14 per 100,000 persons, than the USA average of 12/100,000 people. Currently, military veterans have a much higher rate of killing themselves […]
