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Leo Sher, M.D. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 28, 2026, announced two major steps to advance real-time clinical trials (RTCT). First, it launched two proof-of-concept trials that report endpoints and data signals to the agency in real time. Second, it issued a Request for Information on a proposed pilot RTCT program […]

Leo Sher, M.D. ScholarGPS has published its 2025 rankings of scholars across all fields of science and the arts worldwide. ScholarGPS is a distinguished American company based in California and is widely recognized as a premier online source for the analysis of scholarly activity in academia and beyond. Its rankings are frequently used and cited […]

María Dolores D. Braquehais, M.D., Ph.D.  The 25th World Congress of Psychiatry was held in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 5–8, 2025. Our symposium, titled “Mental health support for healthcare workers: practical solutions and expert insights,” was included as part of the Congress program. The session was co-chaired by Dr. Neil Greenberg (United Kingdom) and […]

Leo Sher, M.D. ScholarGPS has published 2024 rankings of scholars in all areas of science and arts around the world. ScholarGPS is an American company based in California. ScholarGPS is the premier on-line source for the analysis of scholarly activity in the academia and elsewhere. ScholarGPS provides access to rankings of scholars and institutions determined […]

Leo Sher, M.D. On December 19, 2024, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released the “2024 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report.” The Annual Report consists of two parts: “In-depth Reviews” (1) and “Report Findings” (2). The Report suggests that in 2022, there were 6,407 suicides among Veterans and 41,484 among non-Veteran U.S. adults. Among […]

Leo Sher, M.D. A large suicidology conference entitled “The 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behavior (ESSSB20)” took place on August 28-31, 2024, in the “Auditorium Della Tecnica” Convention Center in Rome, Italy. Prof. Dr. Marco Sarchiapone (Italy) was the President of the ESSSB20. The ESSSB20 Scientific Committee consisted of scholars from different countries […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Today the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to American scientists Victor Ambros, Ph.D. and Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D. for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. The Nobel committee described their research as a “groundbreaking discovery [that] revealed a […]

Leo Sher, M.D.   On July 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released a Report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives entitled, “Report on Incidence of Military Suicides by Military Job Code” (1-3). This report responds to section 599 of the James M. Inhofe National […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Three days ago, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released provisional data on suicide rates in the U.S. in 2022 (1).  More people died by suicide in the U.S. in 2022 than any other year on record. Overall, 49,449 Americans (39,255 men and 10,194 women) died by suicide in 2022, […]

Leo Sher, M.D. A U.S. National Vital Statistics System report, “Suicide mortality in the United States, 2001-2021” was published in April 2023 (1). This report updates previous data by presenting final suicide rates from 2001 through 2021 by sex and age as well as rates by race and Hispanic origin for 2020 and 2021. Data […]