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FDA VRBPAC Meeting: Vaccine Targeting Lineage JN.1 for Fall 2024
I didn’t get a chance to watch the June 5th FDA advisory committee meeting on the new vaccine formulation for Covid-19 for this fall. There is a nice summary on the Minnesota CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy). The committee unanimously upvoted the selection of the JN.1 lineage strain (which includes JN.1, KP.2…
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In Memory of L. Jay Stein
I was thinking of one of the Johnson County judicial mental health referees I often worked with years ago. L. Jay Stein died in 2014. I looked up his obituary the other day and was a little surprised to find I had written a remembrance for him. I’d forgotten it. “I will always remember my…
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Mindfulness Video
Great mindfulness video below. Millions of views.
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FDA VRBPAC Meeting on Covid Vaccine for Fall of 2024
The voting question for today’s FDA VRBPAC Meeting on the Covid Vaccine strain for this fall is: “For the 2024-2025 Formula of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., does thecommittee recommend a monovalent JN.1-lineage vaccine composition?Please vote “Yes” or “No” or “Abstain.” The FDA Selection of the 2024-2025 Formula for COVID-19 vaccines briefing document has a…
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Reminder: FDA VRBPAC Meeting June 5, 2024 on Covid Vaccines for Fall 2024
There will be an FDA VRBPAC meeting on June 5, 2024, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ET to discuss Covid vaccines for this fall.
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Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry as a Supraspecialty
I just rediscovered this old blog post below from 2010 in my files. The literature citations are dated, of course. I just wanted to reminisce about how I used to think through issues in consultation-liaison psychiatry. The post is old enough to contain the former term for the field-Psychosomatic Medicine. “At the annual Academy of…
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Old Blog Post on Decisional Capacity Assessment
I just found a blog post I wrote about assessing decisional capacity. It’s over 13 years old and you can tell I was a little frustrated when I wrote it. It was back in the days when consulting psychiatrists were called psychosomatic medicine specialists. Here’s to another blast from the past. Blog from 2011: Thoughts…
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Rounding At Iowa: Smoking and Vaping
I just want to give a shout out to University of Iowa Health Care and the Rounding@Iowa podcast for an outstanding presentation on the hazards of smoking tobacco, vaping, and dabbing. The program originally aired on May 14, 2024 and the guests included two ICU doctors who are pulmonologists I’ve worked with as a psychiatric…
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Dirty Dozen on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in WordPress Shortcode
May is Mental Health Month! Have I said that already? Anyway, this is yet another one of my Dirty Dozen lectures. It’s on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. It’s in WordPress shortcode. A few pointers: click in the lower right hand corner of the slide if you want to view the slides full size. Use the directional arrows…
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Reblogging The Good Enough Psychiatrist Latest Post, “How to Love”
I haven’t seen any posts from The GoodEnoughPsychiatrist in a while. This one was posted yesterday-just in time.
Go Retire Psychiatrist 