Recently, research by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, uncovered a link between sleep deprivation and psychiatric... Read more »
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I’m in Toronto in a press room surrounded by a dozen journalists typing furiously to meet deadlines. Some two hundred more are out... Read more »
In a recently released Public Health Advisory, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a second alert to the public about severe... Read more »
The American Psychiatric Association has updated the guidelines for treating depression for the first time in a decade. The new guidelines favor a... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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