WEB ADDRESSES IN THIS ISSUE
American Psychiatric Association: www.psych.org
| •. | APA’s Minority Fellowships Program: www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/cmhs_index.cfm | ||||
| •. | “Medicare Discrimination Against Mental Illness Treatment”: www.psych.org/advocacy_policy/leg_issues/physician_pay/medicarediscrimination.cfm | ||||
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act: www.cms.hhs.gov/media/press/release.asp?Counter=837
FDA public health advisory on suicide risk in children taking SSRIs: www.fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/mdd.htm
FDA talk paper on suicide risk in children taking SSRIs: www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/2003/ANS01256.html
Federal Register:www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
“Frequently Asked Questions” about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ decision to allow the continued use of DSM criteria: http://questions.cms.hhs.gov/cgi-bin/cmshhs.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2331&gsearch=Y
Kaiser Webcast on proposed Medicare drug benefit for seniors and other beneficiaries: www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=999
National Depression Screening Day: www.mentalhealthscreening.org/depression.htm
“NIDA for Teens: The Science Behind Drug Abuse”: teens.drugabuse.gov
Nobel Prize information: www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/2003/index.html
Reports
| •. | Articles on obesity in the August Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine:http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/content/vol157/issue8/index.dtl | ||||
| •. | “Causes of Death Among Finnish Women With Cosmetic Breast Implants, 1971-2000”: www.annalsplasticsurgery.com | ||||
| •. | “Depression in Assisted Living”: http://ajgp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/11/5/534 | ||||
| •. | “Ephedra and Ephedrine for Weight Loss and Athletic Performance Enhancement: Clinical Efficacy and Side Effects”: www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/95n-0304-bkg0003-ref-07-01-index.htm | ||||
| •. | “Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility”: www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=15100 | ||||
| •. | “Reducing Underage Drinking Through Coalitions: Youth and Adults United for Change” and “A Matter of Degree: The National Effort to Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among College Students”: www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3337.html | ||||
| •. | “Relationship Between Depression and Pancreatic Cancer in the General Population”: www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/abstract/65/5/884 | ||||
| •. | “Serotonin Transporter Missense Mutation Associated With a Complex Neuropsychiatric Phenotype”: www.nature.com/mp/journal/v8/n10/index.html | ||||
| •. | “Suicide Attempts Among Veterans Seeking Treatment for Pathological Gambling”: www.psychiatrist.com/privatepdf/2003/v64n09/v64n0908.pdf | ||||
| •. | “The Growing Share of Uninsured Workers Employed by Large Firms”: www.cmwf.org/programs/insurance/glied_largefirms_672.pdf | ||||
“Under-Secretary for Health’s Draft National CARES Plan”: www.carescommission.va.gov
Retraction of ecstasy findings reported in Science: www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/301/5639/1479b.pdf
