GLG News by Physicians who Specialize in Alcohol Withdrawal

Everyone recognizes that there is a problem in healthcare costs and that one major driver is the cost of malpractice insurance for physicians.  How to protect patients from unethical, negligent, and poor clinical expertise and judgment is also a major issue.

Obstructive sleep apnea is very common.  If an implant can prevent the tongue from obstructing the airway during sleep, it should prove quite valuable. 

This report is the latest in a series of analyses showing that diet influences disease.  Consumption of the Mediterranean diet is negatively associated with new diagnoses of COPD, even when major confounding variables are statistically removed.  The mechanism(s) for this effect are not elucidated,...

Seroquel (quetiapine) is not a particularly potent neuroleptic that has developed significant street value, or abuse potential, among patients who are prescribed this medication.  The foremost question in my mind (rather than the issue of enhanced compliance due to once daily dosing) is whether...

This recall emphasizes a fundamental concept required by medication regulatory agencies in all countries, namely that you have to deliver on your claim.  If you are selling 500mg of a drug, that much of the drug needs to be available after dissolving the medication in your stomach.

So many people with ADHD develop co-occuring alcohol or drug dependence.  If you read Shire's warning box, they caution against giving their medications to individuals with drug addiction.  The question an astute analyst will come up with is "who should be prescribed these medications?"

Telemedicine is generally considered to be most useful for "hard" disciplines like reading EKGs or radiological images, however, it has applications for extending expertise in psychiatry.  Increased recognition of the contribution of psychiatric problems to all of medicine and relative undersupply...

The notion of health awareness is intuitively a good thing.  But will the individual who is informed of these "numbers" really change their lifestyles to normalize said number?  I am not sure this has been adequately tested or proven.

Calcium supplementation has become very prevalent.  Also, as the population ages, so has cognitive slippage and dementia.  The liklihood of a correlation may increase for other reasons than causality, among them that this is a population in which depression is being studied and depression...

This new finding suggesting that ACE inhibitors may protect neurocognitive functions in elders begs the question of whether this is a direct or indirect action of these widely used drugs.  Regardless of the mechanisms, such findings are potentially very important.  These findings are reminscent...