Lawson researcher receives 1 of first-ever Pfizer Psychiatry Research Awards
EurekAlert (press release)
LONDON, ON – A scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute has been honored in Pfizer Canada's first-ever Psychiatry Research Awards Program. Dr. Elizabeth Osuch, Scientist and Rea Research Chair of Affective and Anxiety Disorders at Lawson, …

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Pfizer announces first-ever recipients of its Psychiatry Research Awards
PharmaLive.com (press release)
MONTREAL, May 16, 2012 /CNW/ – Pfizer Canada is pleased to announce the first recipients of the Psychiatry Research Awards Program. The program, launched in May 2011, was developed to advance clinical research and patient care in psychiatry by …
Lawson researcher in London receives psychiatry research awardMetroNews Canada

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Experts say psychiatry's diagnostic manual needs overhaul
Medical Xpress
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), long the master reference work in psychiatry, is seriously flawed and needs radical change from its current "field guide" form, according to an essay by two Johns Hopkins psychiatrists …
Be wary of the American Psychiatric AssociationFox News
Backdown on new psychiatric diagnoses a welcome respiteThe Conversation

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Psychiatric units safer as in-patient suicide falls
Medical Xpress
Suicides by psychiatric in-patients have fallen to a new low, research published today has found. The study by the University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, one of very few to look …

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Local medical community mourns psychiatrist
Owen Sound Sun Times
Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar, chief of psychiatry at Grey Bruce Health Services, was killed Sunday in a car crash in his native Somaliland, an autonomous region in northern Somalia. He was 59. Dr. Jowhar had been working in Owen Sound the past two-and-a-half …

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How Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Establishment Drugged Up Our Kids
AlterNet
In his book Psychiatryland, psychiatrist Phillip Sinaikin recounts reading a scientific article in which it was debated whether a three-year-old girl who ran out into traffic had oppositional-defiant disorder or bipolar disorder, the latter marked by …

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1000 Psychiatrists to converge on Hobart
SpiceNews
About 1000 delegates for The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' “Psychiatry and Mental Health Conference” will come to Hobart this month. Members of the College will convene at the Hotel Grand Chancellor for the conference themed …

'Extremely caring' psychiatrist earns honor
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Fifty years is a long time in psychiatry; long enough that Dr. Thomas Piekenbrock can remember when patients who were experiencing manic episodes were treated with water. "They sprayed manic patients with fire hoses — it was very primitive," …

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St. Anne Hospital transfer could pose tax burden for municipality
Montreal Gazette
Although officials from all levels of government have welcomed a new deal paving the way for long-term care patients at Ste. Anne's Hospital, new talks have begun to ensure that Ste. Anne de Bellevue's municipal tax base is not adversely affected by …

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Good morning, Buffalo
Buffalo News
Until now, there has not been a facility in New York State that provides hospice services for residents in a long-term care center. The first one officially opens with a ceremony at 10 am today. It's Hospice at Jeanne's House, which has been created as …

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