Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Medscape Journal Scan: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, February 2004
This Medscape "Journal Scan" includes recent articles from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry American Journal of Psychiatry. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
  

Medscape Journal Scan: Psychiatry, February 2004
"Journal Scan is the clinician's guide to the latest clinical research findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Lancet, Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Short summaries of feature articles include links to the article abstracts and full text, when available." "med"  
  

Race, Ethnicity, and Health
A report from the Urban Institute (also available in Adobe Acrobat and "printer friendly" formats) - " The creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), combined with many states' decisions to expand Medicaid eligibility, increased public coverage of black, white, and Hispanic children between 1997 and 2002. Uninsurance rates fell among children in low-income white, black, and Hispanic families, remained constant among white and black children in higher-income families, and increased among Hispanic children in higher-income families. The health status of children, as reported by their parents, was stable for blacks, whites, and Hispanics, except for a decline in health among higher-income Hispanic children. Over the same period, black and white adults saw increases in public health insurance coverage but not in overall coverage. The uninsurance rate of Hispanic adults increased, despite expanded public coverage of higher-income Hispanic adults."  
  

Dreams Ride on Freud's Royal Road, Study Finds
Article in the New York Times - "More than a century ago, Freud proposed that dreams concealed subconscious wishes and desires, a theory that has in recent decades fallen from scientific favor. A new study, however, may add weight to the idea that what people suppress during the day returns when they close their eyes at night. Deliberately blocking thoughts about someone before going to sleep, the researchers found, made it more likely that the person would appear in a dream that night." [Viewing New York Times resources requires registration, which is free].