Category: News
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A Female Sex Pill?
Read more: A Female Sex Pill?NYT: Push to Market Pill Stirs Debate on Sexual Desire [M]any experts say that unlike sexual dysfunction in men — which has an obvious physical component — sexual problems in women are much harder to diagnose. And among doctors and researchers, there is serious medical debate over whether female sexual problems are treatable with drugs. Some…
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Therapy Works, but…
Read more: Therapy Works, but…Headlines (same survey) tell a story: Talk therapy as good as antidepressants. But Americans prefer drugs for depression. Go figure.
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Embedded Therapists
Read more: Embedded TherapistsAnother for Memorial Day: Embedded therapists protect National Guard members’ mental health. “Some of the best conversations I have with them are at one in the morning in a Humvee during a training exercise”…The soldiers want to talk about everything, from the trauma they suffered in losing friends to family, job, finances and other post-deployment…
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Video Medicine
Read more: Video MedicineNYT on the rise of telemedicine: The Doctor Will See You Now. Please Log On. “The technology has improved to the point where the experience of both the doctor and patient are close to the same as in-person visits, and in some cases better,” says Dr. Kaveh Safavi, head of global health care for Cisco Systems…
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“Digital Pharma Stealth Economy”?
Read more: “Digital Pharma Stealth Economy”?NYT on PatientsLikeMe.com and CureTogether.com: When Patients Meet Online, Are There Side Effects? Some people share their health information for the sake of the greater good. Yet they typically have no way of knowing whether their health profiles contribute directly to the development of more effective treatments — or are simply mined to create more…