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 […]
Amy Bischoff, B.S., Steven Lippmann, M.D. Introduction Suicide by young people is a serious, widespread problem. It is the second ranked cause of death among people ages 15-24 and the third one between ages 10-24 years (1). Suicide is of greater concern in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB), or sexual minority youth (2). A 2015 […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Depressed multiple-suicide attempters – A high-risk phenotype” has recently been published in Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention (1). We compared the demographic and clinical characteristics of three patient groups: depressed patients without a history of suicide attempts (non-attempters), depressed patients with a history of […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report entitled, “Mood disorders and prospective suicidality in young adults: a population-based cohort study” is published in the February 2018 issue of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (1). Researchers examined associations of mood disorders and suicidality in a large sample of young adults from south Brazil. Study participants were between 18 and […]
