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Depressive symptoms increase during the internship year for training physicians

Depressive Symptoms Increase During Internship Year

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Significantly greater increase seen among women; sex disparity partly due to work-family conflict
For former collegiate and professional football players

Football Career Length, Position Affect White Matter Structure

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Career duration, playing position may modify the effects of concussion history in ex-football players
Fentanyl was involved in more than half of opioid overdose deaths reported in the second half of 2016

Fentanyl or Analogs Tied to More Than Half of All Opioid Deaths

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And 57 percent of fentanyl-related deaths also tested positive for other drugs, such as heroin
In patients with type 2 diabetes

Retinal Sensitivity Linked to Cognitive Status in T2DM

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Retinal sensitivity assessed by microperimetry is correlated with neurodegeneration parameters
Maternal use of acetaminophen in pregnancy is associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring

Maternal Use of Acetaminophen Linked to ADHD in Offspring

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Link seen after adjustment for maternal use before pregnancy, familial risk for ADHD
Receipt of gifts from pharmaceutical companies is associated with more prescriptions per patient and more costly prescriptions

Gifts From Pharma Companies Influence Prescribing Behavior

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Clinicians who receive gifts write more prescriptions per patient, more costly and branded prescriptions
A newly identified genetic risk variant is associated with comorbid alcohol dependence and major depression in African Americans

Locus ID’d That Links Comorbid Alcohol Dependence, Depression

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Robust association identified for SEMA3A locus in African American participants in two samples
Adolescents appear to underreport their nonmedical amphetamine use

Many Teenagers Unaware That Adderall Is an Amphetamine

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Discordant responses common; 28.7 percent who reported Adderall use reported no amphetamine use
Leptin appears to mediate the correlation between weight suppression and duration of illness in bulimia nervosa-syndrome

Researchers Study Mediating Role of Leptin in Bulimia

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Model in which longer illness duration contributed to leptin via weight suppression not supported
Results of the Physicians Foundation 2017 Patient Survey show that most patients are satisfied with their overall relationship with their physician

Most Patients Satisfied With Relationship With Physician

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But majority of patients, physicians think doctors don't have time to provide highest standard of care