Leo Sher, M.D. The graduate medical education in the United States has a long and interesting history. In 1840s, there were about 30 medical schools in the US. Seven of them were located in New York (1). In 1847, the American Medical Association (AMA) was formed. The primary task of the AMA was to raise […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Profs. Zoltan Rihmer and Xenia Gonda have recently published the research article entitled, “Prevention of depression-related suicides in primary care.” This article was published in Psychiatria Hungarica. Most readers of our web site, www.internetandpsychiatry.com do not have access to articles published in this Journal. However, the Editors of Psychiatria Hungarica have graciously […]
Ross H, Kostova D, Stoklosa M, Leon M.Nicotine Tob Res. 2014 Jan;16 Suppl 1:S37-43. AbstractINTRODUCTION: We studied the impact of cigarette excise taxes on the rates of smoking cessation with data from 3 neighboring Eastern European countries (Russia, Poland, and Ukraine) during the post-transitional period of the 1990s and 2000s.METHODS: Using Global Adult Tobacco Survey […]
Cody J. Connor, Jess G. Fiedorowicz, M.D., Ph.D. Psoriasis vulgaris is a chronic, immune-mediated skin disorder characterized by well-defined, salmon-colored patches with a silvery scale. It’s believed to occur when T cells and dendritic cells migrate from the dermis to the epidermis and aberrantly release inflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor a (TNF-a), interleukin […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Prof. Zoltan Rihmer and his colleagues have recently published an interesting Editorial entitled, “Hypomania and bipolar II disorder – diagnostic validity and clinical utility.” This article was published in Psychiatria Hungarica (2013; 28:345-348). Most readers of our web site, www.internetandpsychiatry.com do not have access to articles published in this Journal. The Editors […]
Leo Sher, M.D., Timothy R. Rice, M.D. The importance of men’s mental health requires special recognition. For example, more than 1 in 10 men between the ages of 20 and 44 in the United States take some form of prescription antidepressant, antipsychotic, ADHD drug, or anxiolytic. These numbers are up 43% from 2001. Men experience […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Professor Zoltan Rihmer, an eminent psychiatrist and a leading world expert in psychiatric research, and his colleague, Professor Xenia Gonda have published the article, “Pharmacological prevention of suicide in patients with major mood disorders” (1). Mood disorders are frequently associated with suicidal behavior. Between 5 and 15% of patients with unipolar major […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Heroin (diacetylmorphine, (5a,6a)-7,8-Didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol diacetate (ester), diamorphine, or Diagesil®) is a semi-synthetic morphine derivative and a powerful opioid analgesic (1). Heroin was created in 1874 by Dr. Charles Romley Alder Wright, a British chemistry and physics researcher who worked at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London (2). Heroin was first marketed in […]
Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D. You know, when I was at primary school and subsequently high school my teachers used to tell me and other vertically challenged students to play basketball so we would become tall. Well, because I was young and because society at that time had faith in authority, in particular, teachers and doctors, I […]
Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. Concern over “doctor shopping”—the practice of obtaining prescriptions for controlled substance from multiple physicians under false pretenses—has led to a complex patchwork of state laws to track and punish abusers. At the federal level, the Uniform Controlled Substances Act of 1970 prohibits patients from obtaining scheduled medication through “misrepresentation, fraud, […]
