Sarah Rubenstein from the Wall Street Journal Health Blog has explained that there is a concerning development regarding the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: it's being written in secret. The authors of the entries for this latest version of the Bible of mental health... (read the rest)
posted December 30, 2008
NPR's Morning Edition carried a story this week about a psychiatric hospital that's banned patients from smoking. From the story by Alix Spiegel: [Hospital CEO] Canavan says some of his staff argued that it just wasn't fair to the patients to take their cigarettes away. "The attitude was people who... (read the rest)
posted October 26, 2007
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