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The New DSM – The Bible Of Psychiatry – Arrives Amid Debate
The Hartford CourantBinge eating and hoarding both get their own categories, while Asperger syndrome is no longer recognized as a diagnosis in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — better known as the DSM-5 — which comes...Tags: Mental Illness, Science and Technology, Behavioral Conditions, Separation of Church and State, Authors
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READER SUBMITTED: Copes Named To The Founding Faculty Of The Frank H. Netter MD School Of Medicine At Quinnipiac
HamdenLynn E. Copes, of New Haven, has been appointed to the founding faculty of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. As an Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences, Copes will teach anatomy to students at Connecticut's newest...Tags: Students, Science and Technology, Teachers, Science, Arts and Culture
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Yale Researchers Urge More Street Work When Studying People With Both HIV, Hepatitis C
The Hartford CourantResearchers need to work harder to screen high-risk populations for people who are infected with both HIV and hepatitis C, say the authors of a new Yale University study on the incidence of co-infection in the New Haven area. The study, published Tuesday...Tags: Yale University, New Britain, Health Organizations, Health and Safety at School, HIV
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Release Of Wife Killer From Psychiatric Hospital Hotly Debated Again
The Hartford CourantThe state Psychiatric Security Review Board Friday heard competing testimony on the issue of whether to release wife-killer David Messenger into a Hartford residential treatment center. Messenger was found not guilty by reason of insanity after killing...Tags: Yale University, Health and Medical Professionals, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Psychiatrists
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Placentas provide clues about autism risk at birth, study says
Researchers believe they have come up with a way to tell whether a newborn infant has a higher-than-normal risk of developing autism -- by looking for abnormalities in the placenta shortly after birth. The abnormalities in question are called...
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A New Breed Of Doctor, From New School
The Hartford CourantWith the health care system swamped by the Affordable Care Act and a physician shortage threatening the future of health care, the medical community has called for more medical schools to produce more doctors — specifically, more primary care...Tags: Students, House (tv program), Lobbying, Health and Safety at School, State University of New York
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Sandy Hook Commission Studying Mental Health Following Newtown Massacre
The Hartford CourantAfter focusing on guns for the past two months, the governor’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission held its first public hearing Friday on mental health issues related to the Newtown massacre. Kim Pernerewski, the president of the Waterbury chapter...Tags: The Institute of Living, Mental Illness, Behavioral Conditions, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Health and Safety at School
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9 Honored At Women Of Innovation Awards Dinner
The Hartford CourantThe Connecticut Technology Council honored nine women for their leadership in science, technology and engineering at the its annual Women of Innovation awards dinner Tuesday. Yvonne Will, an associate research fellow at Pfizer, won in the research...Tags: Invention and Innovation, Science and Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Science
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Match Day 2013 results are good for future internal-medicine patients
America’s future doctors are increasingly interested in become primary-care physicians -- good news for America’s future patients. Friday was “Match Day,” the day when fourth-year medical students find out where they’ll...
Tags: General Practitioners, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Students, Internal Medicine
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A Yale Study on Sugar and Our Brains Stirs Up Controversy
Robert Sherwin was a little shocked by the stormy reaction to a study released in early January by his team of scientists at Yale University's School of Medicine. He shouldn't have been. Their report dropped smack in the middle of a nasty national...
Tags: Yale University, Science and Technology, Science, Coca-Cola Co., Drugs and Medicines
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Yale Study Finds Smoking Bans Can Help with Booze Problems
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have come up with an interesting correlation between smoking bans and problems with alcohol. It seems that, if you drink too much booze and like to go to bars, you have a better chance of kicking that bad...Tags: Alcohol Addiction, Behavioral Conditions, Substance Abuse
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Smoking while pregnant could mean child reading problems later
Pregnant women who smoke run into the risk of their children have reading problems later in life, a Yale School of Medicine study has found. The reserachers looked at the reading tests of 5,000 students and found that many whose mothers smoked while...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Medical Specialization, Pediatrics
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