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Most Murdered U.S. Women Killed By Husbands, Boyfriends, Exes

4:00 PM EST. Federal report on decade of statistics shows over half of deaths were caused by intimate partners By Dennis Thompson
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Nearly All Donated Brains From NFL Players Show CTE

7:00 PM EST. Researchers found evidence of the degenerative brain disease in 110 out of 111 deceased NFL players

June 2017 Briefing - Psychiatry

July 01, 2017. The Monthly Journal Summary is a single article covering the most important journal articles published in the previous 30 days.

Benign Ventricular Rhythms and the Anxious Patient

John Kenyon, CNA.

One of the more common causes of visits to the Emergency Department is the patient who complains of “palpitations” or skipping, fluttering, “a feeling my heart stops for a minute,” or otherwise misbehaving myocardium. Almost always the patients in question are anxious when they arrive.

Study links restless leg syndrome with erectile dysfunction in older men

Tamer M. Fouad, M.D..

A study in the journal Sleep shows that erectile dysfunction was more common in older men with restless leg syndrome (RLS) than in those without RLS, and the magnitude of this association increased with a higher frequency of RLS symptoms.

Antidepressants do they work? A Review of the Review

Dr. K. Eisele. This article is in response to an announcement by researchers quoted in many UK publications this week, stating that the class of anti-depressants known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and SNRIs (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) are no more effective than placebos. I looked…