Psychiatry

Patients with chronic illness who used self-management tools showed noticeable improvement

Training would build on CPA workshop

Abilify now indicated for treatment of schizophrenia in adolescents 15–17 years of age.

Canadian Paediatric Society examines risk of congenital malformations, effects on newborns following exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy.

In late March 2010, Eric Windeler and Sandra Hanington received the phone call all parents fear: It was the police, and they were sending an officer over. Three minutes later, an officer came to tell them their son Jack had died, a suicide. In the note Jack wrote to his family before his death, he said he was unable to reach out for help.

As ADHD drug prescriptions rise, Canadian study evaluates interventions’ effectiveness

Those who go home after hospitalization more likely to become disabled

From 2005 to 2009, antipsychotic use in children and youth increased by 114%.