Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. Most Americans take for granted the right to sue their physicians for negligent or reckless conduct. While considerable disagreement exists regarding such related issues as caps on payouts for “pain and suffering,” rare are objections to the basic principle that patients directly injured as a result of substandard treatment deserve […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The U.S News & World Report publishes rankings of the Medical Schools in the United States. According to the U.S News & World Report the twenty 2020 Best Medical Schools for research are: #1 Harvard University, Boston, MA #2 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD #3 Stanford University, Stanford, CA (tie) #3 University […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research article, “Objections to suicide among depressed patients with alcohol use disorders” was published 10 years ago in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). In all, 521 mood disordered patients with and without alcohol use disorders were administered a battery of clinical measures including the Scale […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Age effects on cortisol levels in depressed patients with and without comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder, and healthy volunteers” was published 15 years ago in the October 2004 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). We examined the effect of age on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system in depressed patients […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Fathers’ alcohol use and suicidal behaviour in offspring during youth and young adulthood” has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica online ahead of print (1). Researchers from Sweden examined the association between father’s alcohol use and suicidal behavior in offspring during youth and young adulthood. A cohort of 68,910 […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Prof. Joav Merrick, Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel, has informed me that The Fifth International Conference on Child Health, Development and Welfare, “The Challenged Child” will be held in Jerusalem, Israel, on December 2-4, 2019. The topics of the conference include new treatments for […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Marital status and dementia: Evidence from the health and retirement study” has been published in The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences online ahead of print (1). Researchers from Michigan and Texas examined data from the Health and Retirement Study (2000-2014). The sample included 15,379 […]
Leo Sher, M.D. I am happy and proud to tell the “Internet and Psychiatry” readers that the Expertscape medical professionals rating company sent the following tweet today at 10:50 am EDT: “September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. So congratulations to Dr. Leo Sher of Mount Sinai New York — Recognized as an Expertscape World […]
Leo Sher, M.D. On September 3, 2019, the U.K. Office for National Statistics published a report, “Suicides in the UK: 2018 registrations.” The report states that in 2018, a total of 6,507 suicides were registered in the U.K., 686 more suicide deaths than in 2017 when there were 5,821 suicide deaths. This indicates a statistically […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Endogenous cannabinoid levels and suicidality in combat veterans” has been published in Psychiatry Research online ahead of print (1). The goal of our study was to test the hypothesis that combat veterans who have made a suicide attempt post-deployment can be distinguished from combat veterans who have never made […]
