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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Searching for the Psychiatric Yeti: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic In January, Peter Simons wrote that the decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. Siem: The New York Times published a major article on February 2, 2013, detailing Richards story. We were lost for a long timeuntil The New York Times article came out.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. The researchers involved in the reanalysis learned that Sally Laden, a medical writer paid by GSK—and not the original researchers—analyzed the data and wrote the research article for publication! Like many of these bogus studies, the journal article was peer reviewed before publication.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. healthcare bill is only exceeded by the approximately $3.8

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. To me, the Time article suggests it is another street hallucinogenic, “feel good” drug that does not treat depression. In the Time article one depressed, suicidal patient after the treatment reported he still wanted to kill himself as much as ever, but it didn’t bother him anymore!

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 3)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. One suspects there was major pushback to the article from ECT proponents, which was quite apparent in the Comment Section of the article. This clinical opinion vs. science is also fundamental to many other of our quality and cost problems in healthcare today. The post Much of U.S.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 8)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. The benzodiazepines (and many other drugs as well) are deserving an award generating hundreds of new health problems to be treated and also adding significant healthcare costs as well. An article by Elly Vintiadis in Scientific American 23 asked the question “Is Addiction a Disease”?