A Columbia study finds that adolescents who use cannabis recreationally are two to four times as likely to develop psychiatric disorders then teens who don’t use cannabis at all.
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman says health care is unlike any other business “it’s the business of life” and treating health care advertising the same as any other industry conflates patients and consumers.
“There’s a social dimension to health that we’ve completely overlooked in our scramble to find the best and most cutting-edge medical care,” writes Dr. Kelli Harding in her new book The Rabbit Effect.
Dr. Rachel Marsh’s Cognitive Development and Neuroimaging Laboratory studies the mechanisms in the brain that underlie an individual’s ability to self-regulate.
Dr. Ali Mattu’s new A&E series “The Employables” follows people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and Tourette's syndrome as they search for work.
“If a study conducted ten years ago suggested that cannabis was safe, how does one extrapolate those findings for today’s teen?” writes Dr. Ardesheer Talati.
While there is still plenty of research to be done, Dr. Philip Muskin emphasized that there is enough certainty to know that psychiatric drugs do work – often to great effect.
"I am a big believer (that), psychologically, it is important people not be entirely isolated with their HIV diagnosis, and they are not living entirely alone with it," Dr. Robert H. Remien says.