To get a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a particular problem or condition, pharmaceutical companies generally spend hundreds of …

In the physician community, there’s been a fair amount of buzz about a physician’s-only community (or “social network,” if you prefer) called Sermo. I …

As the war in Iraq continues, more people are entering VA hospitals and other treatment centers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This has led to …

The National Psychologist reported in its Sept/Oct 2007 issue that prescription privileges bills to give psychologists prescription privileges in nine different U.S. states failed in …

Congratulations are in order, as we seemed to have won a Thinking Blogger Award! The participation rules are simple:

1. If, and only if, you get …

Yesterday saw the debut of a “Health 2.0″ conference run by The Health Care Blog, a policy-oriented blog that, ironically, is not really about …

Some provocative research covered by the Chicago Tribune has proposed that the brains of liberals and conservatives work differently.

David Amodio, the primary investigator, …

Apparently, architects are increasingly looking to science to help them build more emotionally-inviting homes. That’s all good and fine, if one bases one’s ideas upon …

Leave it to some mainstream media outlets to grab onto a 1,000-person survey done by an advertising agency and suggest it’s somehow “news.” Sorry folks, …

That is the enormous budget the American Psychological Association approved to “upgrade” its current website over the next 2 years. $7.6 million. That’s $3.8 million …

A “serious adverse event” is drug-speak for something bad that happened when a person was taking a medication. That bad thing can range from a …

Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology is a new database containing 40,000 pages of indexed transcripts of 2,000 counseling and psychotherapy sessions …